Omar Alvarez is the co-founder and COO at Simbiosis.  Simbiosis is the marketplace for hiring full-time software engineers from vetted software agencies in Latin America.
Prior to Simbiosis, Omar founded several startup companies in various industries and technologies.

In this episode:

1. Omar describes his startup experience launching products and software.  Simbiosis is a marketplace that allows US tech companies to compare talent across multiple agencies in Central and South America.   Simbiosis also has the tools to process all legal documents and payments in multiple currencies.

2. There are 27 software agencies (85% located in Mexico) as part of the Simbiosis marketplace.  Simbiosis serves early startups to help boost their talent for the long-term as well as US-based software agencies that require talent for specfic projects.

3.  Omar shares his lessons learned as a startup founder which includes being careful not to burn through investment, especially when you are iterating through developing your product.

Omar talks about what's next for Simbiosis..and much more!

You can learn more at Simbiosis or contact Omar via email.