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This interview actually happened by accident. A lot of the good ones normally do.

Day One at Web 2.0 is always a little quiet as the Expo doesn’t actually start until Wednesday. Today - there are just 2 workshops. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. I still think about 1000 people show up though.

I sat through Jeff Clavier and Rob Hayes presentation on “Starting Up: Strategies for Financing and Growing Your Web 2.0 Start-up”.

I’ve actually seen this before - but there’s always something to learn.

Anyway, at the end of the session, I was waiting in line to ask Rob if he’d mind me interviewing him for the blog. The guy who spoke with Rob before me was Christian Sepulveda. I was intrigued by his story and the effort he went to attend.

Christian is from Santiago in Chile. And the Chilean government, in their wisdom, sponsored 14 budding entrepreneurs and sent them to Web 2.0. Bravo is all I say.

Christian also managed to convince his government to back his own start up - Ubiqq, to the tune of US$80,000. More Bravo.

The Web 2.0 Expo attracts a lot of “headline” acts. But it also attracts quiet achievers like Christian, who make a herculean effort to attend. And I don’t care where on earth you come from, entrepreneurs are all the same - they have that glimmer in the eye and that strong desire to succeed.

It was clearly evident in Christian’s eyes from the very first moment we spoke.

Clearly, Web 2.0 is attracting more and more people from around the world. And that’s a good thing. Now if we could only get more VC’s to countries like Asia and Latin America, that would be even better.

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