YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

More importantly, he knows how to sell his ideas, specifically, a picture recognition application called Clickpic which, while it has yet to be launched, has earned him a guest spot on one of Brazil’s biggest television chat shows, o Progama do Jô, or Jô’s Show. Fiercely intelligent, self-starting, and as at home in America as he is in Brazil, Vanossi is typical of a new generation of Brazilian tech innovators that is making Silicon Valley sit up and take notice.

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Brazil Internet Silicon Valley America 133

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

Moisés lives and works in Brazil. What is the deign industry like in Brazil? When I was out of crowdSPRING, was performing my art exhibitions: [link] but it was not helping much, as living art in Brazil is very difficult. In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects.

Brazil 73

Brazil Spain New Zealand Portfolio 73

SiliconHills

MAY 11, 2015

“Austin is a spectacular city that, after many visits, we grew very […] The post V2COM of Brazil Opens Austin Office with Plans to Create 100 Jobs appeared first on SiliconHills. V2COM, a Brazilian cleantech company, announced the opening of its Austin office with plans to create 100 new jobs in the next three years. The company provides hardware, software and solutions to utility companies to manage their resources and reduce their environmental impact.

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Brazil Austin Software Management 87

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

operations for Brazil-based Movile , a mobile platform for content and commerce. As announced in Brazilian press in October of 2013, a new version of a law in Brazil just took effect, mandating that smartphones give visibility to Brazilian-made apps , by either pre-loading phones with these homegrown apps or providing a dedicated marketplace on smartphones to display them. The government needs to take a holistic approach to invigorating mobile technology in Brazil.

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Brazil Portugal Silicon Valley Finder 122

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 30, 2012

In my experience, one of the main reasons many entrepreneurs seek the freedom of working for themselves is because they crave variety , stimulation, and the ability to grow organically in their career.

Brazil 72

Brazil Restful Employee Entrepreneur 72

ReadWriteStart

JULY 9, 2018

Smart Cities Startups Tech Amazon Argentina Brazil Google Latin America MercadoLibre Mexico Technology in Latin AmericaLatin America’s tech-savvy workforce has attracted international companies to maintain support offices in the region for years. However, the recent government commitment to develop innovation hubs, coupled with a growing middle class that lead in the adoption of mobile devices, has made Latin America prime territory for global tech companies to target local consumers.

America 126

America Global Argentina Mexico 126

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

Start with a Look at Brazil. According to recent statistics, Brazil is a fast growing ecommerce market. It has been reported that online sales are growing now faster than those in the United States but what is even more important is the fact that ecommerce in Brazil is growing but brick-and-mortar retailers are slowing down. Learn from Brazil – The Importance of SEO. Others Brazil e-commerce Latin America marketing SEO

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America Brazil eCommerce Marketing 100

Gust

DECEMBER 28, 2013

Invested Interests angel investor brazil invest startup I would be unlikely to invest in a Brazilian startup at this time because I have absolutely no background or knowledge of the local market, I don’t speak Portuguese, I would be unlikely to be able to attend board meetings or even visit the company, and finally because there are issues relative to double-taxation under US and local tax codes that make many international investments challenging.

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Angel Investor Brazil Marketing Startup 91

deal architect

JULY 8, 2014

Brazil has been winning millions of hearts in the last month. Kudos to Germany for that amazing victory. But it was just a game. Like that of my nephew who had a fabulous week there during the FIFA WC.

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Brazil Germany 199

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2011

This week, our small business spotlight comes to us all the way from Brazil (quick shout out to our team of Brazilian software engineers, Jonas and Adriano!). Currently, PagPresente only exists in Brazil, but they are looking to expand. Awesomeness business Interviews Technology Brazil gift giving small biz small business web apps

Small Business 74

Small Business Brazil Affiliate Programming 74

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil’s second largest metropolitan city with a population of over 12 million, is probably best known for its boisterous and colorful annual Carnival which attracts more than 500,000 visitors to its wild celebrations. [ Image from Wikipedia ].

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Brazil Hosting 128

deal architect

JULY 30, 2010

a) This one made it to Leonardo Shikida in Brazil in good shape. The Polymaths have been making their way around the world. b) This one arrived to Harish Malani in India “severely jetlagged”. Barnes and Noble generously offered him.

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Brazil India 195

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2020

Supported countries are Brazil, India, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, Ireland, Russia, China, Poland, Hungary, Salvador, Australia, and Canada, as well as the com.

SEO 156

SEO Hungary South Africa Poland 156

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

I have been getting emails and tweets all day from people upset that they cannot get into Startup Lessones Learned 2011 - either here in SF, where we're sold out, or in one of the more than 100 simulcast locations around the world, many of which are sold out, too. We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values.

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Czech Republic Brazil Costa Rica Romania 131

The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

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. TNW: Through Boo-box, you have access to vast audience is Brazil. In Brazil, until some years ago, all the Internet content consumption was in big portals.

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Brazil Argentina Advertising Social Network 111

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2021

He has worked in forests all over the world, from the southern US to Armenia and Brazil. Over the past year and a half, we at Version One have spent significant time on energy and climate. To date, we’ve made three investments in this space but have only announced Patch.

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Armenia Mississippi Harvest Alabama 104

YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

Brazil has taken a back seat. This final point isn’t necessarily related to Mexico’s improvements, but there’s no doubt that Brazil’s status in private equity has aided the country. To put things into perspective, just five years ago Brazil had 75% more private equity fundraising. Even if Brazil somehow manages to recover, Mexico are now becoming so far ahead that the situation might now be irreversible.

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Private Equity Mexico Equity Brazil 100

Gust

JANUARY 13, 2014

What about India, or Brazil? If you could pick the top five countries with the most newly created startups, which countries would you choose? The United States? With thousands of new entrepreneurs creating startup profiles on Gust each month, we’re excited to share with you some of the major findings that are happening in the startup world. To capture the global reach of startup growth, we’ve put together the Gust quarterly startup map.

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Brazil India United States Global 118

The Next Web

JUNE 12, 2014

Yet many of the big digital content distribution platforms like Pandora and Netflix are not available in countries like Brazil, Turkey and India (Spotify just. Andrea Boetti is a Business Development Manager at Fortumo, helping web and app developers and digital content merchants build out their monetization strategies for emerging markets. Spending on smartphone content is shifting away from Northern and Western markets and heading South and East.

Turkey 118

Turkey Brazil India Europe 118

YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2020

Once again, this session is dominated by the USD, although the currencies of Canada, Mexico and Brazil also feature prominently during this period. The foreign exchange is unique in the financial market, as it remains accessible to investors 24-hours a day and six days a week.

Brazil 137

Brazil Russia Mexico New Zealand 137

Gust

JANUARY 13, 2014

What about India, or Brazil? If you could pick the top five countries with the most newly created startups, which countries would you choose? The United States? With thousands of new entrepreneurs creating startup profiles on Gust each month, we’re excited to share with you some of the major findings that are happening in the startup world. To capture the global reach of startup growth, we’ve put together the Gust quarterly startup map.

Brazil 88

Brazil India United States Global 88

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2011

Startup Lessons Learned 2011 is just around the corner: May 23, 2011 in SF. You have just under a week to get general admission tickets before prices go up. A lot of people missed the early bird rates and wrote to me about it. Don't be late, buy your ticket now. We've also added a number of extremely discounted tickets for full-time students. New Speakers Our program keeps getting better and better. We're debuting many brand new case studies, and I could not be more excited.

Czech Republic 95

Czech Republic Brazil Uruguay Romania 95

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. I want to welcome all of you who are traveling to be here. Welcome to our fair city. There are only a few tickets left to Startup Lessons Learned 2011 on Monday (May 23). If you haven't registered yet, please do. As a reminder, the first 200 people to show up will get one of the very first copies of the Lean Startup Book , a pre-publication printed galley.

Czech Republic 96

Czech Republic Brazil Costa Rica Romania 96

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

LBMA currently covers North America (Toronto, Montreal, New York, Atlanta and San Francisco), EMEA (Amsterdam and London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), as well as an upcoming chapter for South America (in Brazil).

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Singapore Asia North America South America 143

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Some years ago Brazil had a major balance of payments deficit. Therefore Brazil made it difficult to import products from abroad. Corporations were encouraged to export from Brazil to generate foreign currency and they were allowed to keep a portion of the foreign currency. Brazil is now a powerful country, but similar examples still prevail in many developing nations.

Saudi Arabia 158

Saudi Arabia Brazil Finland Italy 158

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Completion of a software project by the remote workers in (Philippines, Brazil, Armenia, fill in the blank… Just name a country whose daytime is our nighttime.) One thing a senior manager can count on is that someday, something will go right, very right. Well, after all the disappointments, pressure and outright failures, this is NEWS. So we tend to go overboard a bit.

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Armenia Philippines Brazil Forecast 80

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The event – which is currently held in cities such as San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Austin, New York, Boston, Madrid (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Bogota (Colombia), Mexico City (Mexico), Vancouver (Canada) – will be extended to include Detroit, Michigan and Mexico City, Mexico on November 16, followed by Sao Paulo, Brazil, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Moscow, Russia. Media and event company Women 2.0

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Founder Partner Mexico San Francisco 149

Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

This is back in 2000 and most hospitals in Brazil didn’t have computers. And we missed another detail like the procurement process in hospitals in Brazil were corrupt. There was a time when having the information gave you the power. That’s no longer the key. The problem isn’t getting information or data; it’s knowing what to do with it. Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead.

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Brazil Cleveland Customer Development Entrepreneur 189

Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

This is back in 2000 and most hospitals in Brazil didn’t have computers. And we missed another detail like the procurement process in hospitals in Brazil were corrupt. There was a time when having the information gave you the power. That’s no longer the key. The problem isn’t getting information or data; it’s knowing what to do with it. Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead.

Brazil 189

Brazil Cleveland Customer Development Entrepreneur 189

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It will be first introduced to in Hong Kong and Singapore in Asia Pacific, along with Brazil, to be the first three global markets outside of US, and with plans to be rolled out to additional markets in the future.

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Singapore Small Business Brazil Affiliate 132

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Examples of this for businesses in the United States would be countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, or Jamaica. In today’s ever-changing, highly competitive business climate, small startups and large companies alike are increasingly turning to outsourcing processes.

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Global Dominican Republic Jamaica Costa Rica 149

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2014

” “Learning more about the holidays, buying patterns and gift-giving traditions of huge emerging economies like Brazil and China is a fantastic shortcut for me as I work to further expand sales of my luxury goods,” Crowder adds.

Small Business 141

Small Business Brazil Global Japan 141

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

A special shout out to my pal, Mauricio Mota , on the left below who is also an immigrant from Brazil. León Krauze from Univisión gave an impassioned keynote presentation at The Upfront Summit on the topic of “invisibility” of immigrant workers in our society. It moved people to tears, was widely Tweeted and several people asked me to share this video. Invisibility.

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Los Angeles Colombia Mexico South America 181

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). VC funding. Our perspectives on the topic wax and wane with market cycles.

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Brazil Churn Rate Silicon Valley Differentiation 329

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

Singapore primarily sell on eBay ’s US, UK, Australia and Germany websites, with purchases from Brazil among the fastest growing. We’ve always known anecdotally that Singaporeans spent a lot of time – and money – on e-commerce, buying a whole range of goods from fashion to jewelry. But what most don’t realize is that Singaporeans actually sell plenty of goods online as well.

Singapore 139

Singapore Thailand Asia South Korea 139

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Investors from all over the world were present from Germany, France, Brazil, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands; even a news reporter from New Zealand appeared for the event. in many developed countries, freshwater costs over 10% of total GDP, this includes Germany, China, Denmark, and Brazil. I was fortunate to attend the party over at WATEC Israel 2011’s Cleanvest Summit.

Brazil 81

Brazil Taiwan Denmark Kenya 81

Gust

DECEMBER 19, 2012

This trend is mostly led by a decrease in product ready internet web service companies in the US, Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom, and with an increase in concept stage companies in Spain, India, Brazil and the United States. For November 2012 we are noticing an interesting trend of product ready companies declining, while concept stage companies are rising.

Pennsylvania 110

Pennsylvania Georgia Spain Portugal 110

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Multinational : Brazil. Professional online network LinkedIn today revealed the most overused words and phrases in its members’ profiles this year. Here are the most overused words by country: Creative : Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Dynamic : France. Effective : India. Problem solving : Italy. Motivated : Ireland. Managerial : Spain. Track record : Singapore.

United Kingdom 179

United Kingdom Netherlands Ireland Singapore 179

Gust

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

At first glance we can see the US contains the majority of new startups, with a significant 60%, but Canada, India, France, and Brazil are closely following and worth to keep an eye on for future startup growth. For example, India has the highest percentage of startups in the Education industry, with almost 10%, while other startup leaders such as Brazil have a greater focus on the Industrial/Energy sector. Gust Startup Map & Trends Analysis – August 2012.

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Brazil India Florida California 101

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Entrepreneurship is everywhere, but everywhere isn’t a level playing field. What’s the playbook for your region or country to make it so? ———-. Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. They grow into companies that define an industry and create jobs. Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business.

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Global Australia China Indonesia 264

OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Finally, although I can’t claim to have spent much time in Mumbai this week other than at my hotel or at our office, my time here reminded me a lot of visits to Brazil and China, and to a lesser extent Russia (In particular, our office here at LRN reminds me a lot of our Return Path office in Sao Paulo, Brazil in many, many ways). I’ve been to India once before, when Mariquita and I came here on holiday in 2006.

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India Brazil Russia China 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Even New York’s startup scene wants to replicate its West Coast counterpart (and been somewhat successful, earning the term Silicon Alley ), and other countries, including Brazil , clamor to copy its success in positioning themselves as hotbed of innovation and technological entrepreneurship. Many startup ecosystems in the world want to be like Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley Singapore North America Los Angeles 207

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The real power of it really hit me when I was in Brazil this last spring at a dinner and one of the attendees approached me and told me he was one of the Startup CEO students and how much he was enjoying the course. Startup CEO: The Online Course Part II. Startup CEO the online course offered by the Kauffman Fellows Academy is back this fall starting September 15! As many of you know, the course is based on my book Startp CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Your Business.

Brazil 92

Brazil Australia Startup Global 92