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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

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Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil.

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Your social media obsession won’t make an enduring mark on the world

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His career began in 1992 when he worked in the financial market at Banco Nacional in Brazil. But here is irony: That 40,000 year old cave painting in Spain has survived and probably will survive for much longer than anything you write on Facebook, Twitter, and the majority of other social media sites.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

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We chose to integrate our product closely with Pinterest, which was the talk of the town in the summer of 2012, and allow our users to do more with their carefully curated photos. Brazil, with a population of 200M and Mexico with 120M are now in our top 5 download countries. These, too, were highly effective.

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