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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

operations for Brazil-based Movile , a mobile platform for content and commerce. This is a step forward for the Good Law—which has already helped Brazil a lot—but private business and government need to start doing more to truly help launch Brazil’s mobile potential. Eduardo Henrique is the head of U.S.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

I have recently been doing some research on Entrepreneurship in Brazil, while also trying to start my own company. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. I wanted to ask you what you thought about “context&# ? a lot is written in general terms, mostly US centric. For International Orders Now In Print!

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Thoughts on Spanish Startups from La Red Innova 2011

VC Cafe

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. Spain, Argentina and Brazil have relatively low levels of venture capital activities ( Invest in Spain confirms this).

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising. Silicon Valley Bank seems interesting. I been trying it for a while.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. But places like Brazil and India are estimated at 20-30% and Japan and South Korea at <15%.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US. That’s massive.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? And then, at my first Silicon Valley startup , I watched friends get laid off in successive waves as it started to fail. Maybe, but the thought never even entered our minds. No business model, either.