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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Those higher costs make learning to write ads, manage campaigns, A/B test, and design landing pages a very expensive activity for an early stage, bootstrapping startup. He had studied business at Harvard and was an executive in the startup that built the first railroad from Brazil’s agricultural heartland to Sao Paulo.

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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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Everything you need to know to create the next big company in Latin America

The Next Web

Juan Pablo Cappello is an investor in more than twenty early stage companies. and Canada, while the “South” is Latin America including Mexico and Brazil. If this diaspora of Latin consumers were considered a “country,” it would represent the third most populous country in Latin America after Brazil and Mexico.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital.

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

GV (formerly Google Ventures) – Started in 2009, GV is Alphabet’s venture capital fund, focused primarily on early stage in diverse fields: from life sciences and healthcare to robotics and entereprise tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. Travis, thanks for the post (reading it and learning down here in Brazil – will do the same). . Who We Are: We’re two individuals with a strong background in strategic consulting and management. Gustavo Vale.