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

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in recent years: accelerate smartphone penetration, increasing consumption of online video and social networking, and boosting mobile ad spending, e-commerce, and more. An example of a great startup incentive took place in Portugal, where tax reductions were offered to companies that hired unemployed workers or students.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

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Mikhail is now the Associate Director of Product at Merchantry, an e-commerce merchant network, after being introduced to the co-founders by someone he met while at ClickFacts. Latin America. Middle East. Y Combinator’s first batch: where are they now? 5th August 2012 by Christopher Jackson. From small seeds grow mighty oaks.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks. I’m long Mobile.

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