Join us for a session by the author Patrick McGinnis to know more about his famous book and learn how to become an entrepreneur without quitting your day job.
The Author Bio:
Patrick McGinnis founded Dirigo Advisors in 2010 to
provide strategic advice to investors and businesses operating in Latin America
and other emerging markets.
Patrick is a New York-based Partner of Centria Partners, a Sao Paulo-based
advisory boutique that focuses on businesses in the technology, media,
software, and biotech industries. He has also advised the World Bank and
the International Finance Corporation on projects related to private equity and
venture capital. In 2013, Patrick co-authored a World Bank Policy Working
Paper entitled "Private Equity and Venture
Capital in SMEs in Developing Countries: The Role of Technical Assistance." An advocate of
entrepreneurship in Latin America, he is a mentor at NXTP
Labs, Latin
America's most active seed investor. He also serves as an independent
board advisor to Socialatom Ventures, a seed investment fund based in
Medellin, Colombia, and is a board member of The Resource Group, a global BPO
and software company with over 14,000 employees worldwide.
Patrick is also a 10% Entrepreneur and manages a portfolio of
investments he has made outside of his day job. In this capacity, he has
invested in both seed and venture capital transactions in Latin America (NXTP
Labs, The
Fan Machine, Bunny, posto7, BlueSmart,
and WeHostels) and the United States (Everbright Media, Preference
Labs, SatMap, and
ipsy). He serves as an Advisor
at Bunny, posto7, Preference Labs, and BlueSmart. See Select Investments for more information.
Prior to founding Dirigo Advisors, he was a Vice President of PineBridge
Investments (formerly AIG Capital Partners) a global emerging markets
investment firm managing over $5 billion. At PineBridge, Patrick sourced,
structured, executed, and monitored growth equity investments in Latin America,
Central Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Patrick also advised portfolio
companies on matters including strategic and financial planning, capital structure,
acquisitions, business development, and exit opportunities. In this
capacity, he invested in and sat on the Boards of Directors of:
Prior to joining PineBridge, Patrick was an
investment professional at JP Morgan Partners working on the Latin America team
in both New York and São Paulo. While at JPMP, he executed ten
investments in the region, with particular focus on early-stage
investments. These included Americanas.com, a spin-off of Brazilian
retailer Lojas Americanas, and MercadoLibre.com, Latin America’s largest online
trading platform. Other investments spanned travel e-commerce (Viajo.com
now Despegar.com), sports media (SportsYA!), and Brazilian IT
outsourcing (Tesla). He served on the Board of Directors of Hispanic
Teleservices Corporation, a Mexican outsourced contact center and Freddo,
S.A.,
Argentina’s leading artisanal ice cream retailer. Patrick started his
career as an investment banker in the Latin America group of Chase Securities,
Inc.
An avid traveler, writer, and speaker, Patrick has visited more than 60
countries. He is the author of The 10% Entrepreneur. He
also blogs about travel, technology, and business for the Huffington
Post and
Business Insider. He also writes a column on venture investing in Latin America for the Latin America
Venture Capital Association. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of
entrepreneurship, venture capital, private equity, and emerging markets
investing, and has spoken at events such as Red Innova, Start-Up Chile, Angel
Hack Santiago, the Latin America Tech Meetup, The Americas Society / Council of
the Americas, Campus Party Mexico, Born Global Medellin, Start-Up Weekend NYC,
the NYU Private Equity Conference, and the Columbia University Latin America
Business Association Conference. His is also a speaker in the U.S. State
Department Speakers Program and has spoken about entrepreneurship and social
ventures in Buenos Aires as well as via Google Hangout.
Patrick sits on the Board of Trustees of the New
York Youth Symphony, where
he Vice President and serves on the Executive Committee. He is a member
of the Business Advisory Network of NESsT, a non-for-profit enterprise
that develops sustainable social enterprises that solve critical social
problems in emerging market economies. He is also a Young Trustee of
Atlas Corps, an international network of nonprofit leaders and
organizations that seeks to address global challenges.
Patrick graduated magna cum laude from the School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University, where he served a one-year appointment as a
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business
School.
He is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
THE 10% ENTREPRENEUR Book:
Becoming a full-time entrepreneur can look glamorous from the outside. Who
doesn’t want to chase their dreams, be their own boss, and do what they love?
But the truth is that entrepreneurship is often a slog, with no regular hours,
no job security, and very little pay. What if there was a way to have the stability
of a day job with the excitement of a startup? All of the benefits of
entrepreneurship with none of the pitfalls?
In The 10% Entrepreneur, Patrick McGinnis shows you how, by investing just 10%
of your time and resources, you can become an entrepreneur without losing a
steady paycheck.