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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear. In the coming months, we could see a few other popular startups falter as venture capital investors tighten their purse strings even further.

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12 Questions: Meet Moisés Ferreira (Brazil)

crowdSPRING Blog

Moisés lives and works in Brazil. Initially in my teens I was influenced by cartoonists as a large Brazilian named Ziraldo, he does not know me, but I always admired his work. What is the deign industry like in Brazil? Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.

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Things going right? Control your euphoria!

Berkonomics

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.) As a member of the board, I’ve received calls on weekends, at night and texts at hours I didn’t even think existed – from CEOs who couldn’t control the euphoria.

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Many Startups Stumble on International Cultures

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Watch your product naming. Local laws prevail.

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These 12 Apps Will Help Boost Your Productivity

crowdSPRING Blog

Named after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used in university, a pomorodo is typically 25 to 30 minutes of focused work time, followed by a short 3-5 minute break. Coffitivity is the most straightforward app of the three, and as you might have guessed from the name, it specializes in the ambient sounds of cafés and coffee shops.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Felipe grew up in Brazil. Recently — in the name of censoring pornography — China blocked access to Google and demanded that computers sold in China come supplied with an Internet nanny filter called Green Dam Youth Escort, starting July 1. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. The concept of The Black Swan was popularized by the great Lebanese thinker and writer Nicholas Taleb in his bestseller of the same name. Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8

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