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Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness)

crowdSPRING Blog

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. But this investment will happen globally and the US may see a decline in VC-funded startups in 2011. The survey indicated that the VCs surveyed felt the best prospects were for entrepreneurs in emerging markets like China, Brazil, and India.

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Why it’s not easy to break into the Brazilian tech market – a chat with Boo-box’s Marco Gomes

The Next Web

Marco Gomes is the founder of social media advertising company Boo-box , which reaches 60 million people in Brazil monthly with ads from clients like Google, Unilever, Volkswagen and Microsoft. He’ll be speaking at our upcoming TNW Conference Latin America , which takes place on 28 and 29 August in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Thoughts on Spanish Startups from La Red Innova 2011

VC Cafe

Mobile web usage in Spain is high, at 20% of mobile phone users in 2011. billion invested in Q1 of 2011. 1) There’s a growing buzz around entrepreneurship - several people mentioned that in the past, students that graduated from college hurried to find a job in big company and in the case of Brazil also the government.

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Are Mobile Platforms Austin’s Differentiator?

Austin Startup

And, of course, if you start counting non-US domestic hotbeds, you’ve got thriving mobile scenes in Western and Eastern EU countries, China, Japan, India, Korea, Brazil, etc. By this definition, then, Apple has the biggest, ‘baddest’ mobile platform on the planet, at this moment in early 2011.

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Instagram And Pinterest New Social Media Stars: Experian

YoungUpstarts

The following table from Experian shows the growth of both services between July 2011 and July 2012 in terms of their share of visits to all sites by country: Social site. New Zealand. North America. “The growth of both Instagram and Pinterest over the past year has been phenomenal.

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Twitter Link Roundup #57 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Native Indians of Brazil use urucum seeds to make red pigment. Today’s issue of crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter (marketing, strategy, 2011 outlook) – [link]. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Brazil hasn’t fully adopted Facebook yet (they are still on Orkut), there is a huge opportunity there. Flickr Search Copyright © 2011. Zynga has acknowledged the fact they were spending several millions of dollars per month to promote their games. All rights are reserved to the original copyright holders where applicable.