Wow, the May cohort MBA students just graduated last week. It is impressive to look back and see that I have been into the Ivey MBA program for about nine months and I only have three months to go. The main feeling that I have … Read More →
Category Archives: Food for thoughts
Google Homepage in Canada (Olympics), Brazil (Carnaval) and China (New Year)
Today is a special day for Google’s Doodle team. It had to create and publish three different doodles. Except in Brazil and China, Google is showing the Winter Olympics doodle. In Brazil, Google is showing a Carnaval doodle and in China, it is showing the … Read More →
Startup: Kwedit – a promising way of payment, how about Habbo?
Kwedit is a strange name for a payment company. This is a startup that offers a new form of payment to social and interactive games that allows people to buy virtual goods. The strange thing is that it allows people to “promise” to pay for … Read More →
Startup: CrowdFlower
CrowdFlower is a company that allows companies to outsource their repetitive tasks such as data verification and filtering. I think initially this can be very useful for internet companies that need to have content verification and data check services. Usually, it is not cheap to … Read More →
Canada at 11th in Quality of Life Index 2009
I found out a quality of life index of over 100 countries. Canada is positioned at 11th together with other 8 countries. Read more here. Share and Enjoy:
Google Nexus One – the PC of smartphones?
The smartphone industry is moving to follow the same path of the personal computer (PC). Both industries have a lot of manufacturers. For example, Dell for computers and Motorola for smartphone. PC and smartphones have operating systems. For PC, the major OS is Windows and … Read More →
History Visualized @ biggerpicture.dk
Very very interesting way to see history, politics and graphics. These guys are great in doing info visual stuff. http://www.blog.biggerpicture.dk/our-history-visualized/ Share and Enjoy:
Nomaine.com – Interesting Domain Name Tool
It is so hard to come up with a nice name for startup or new blog when most of the basic names are all registered. Then, most people come up with strange or too creative names to their website which are hard to search. But … Read More →
Bookhu – Top books for women and men
Bookhu is a book review website that shows if a book is read more by men or women. It is a food for thought website. It shows if I have more male or female preference. In my searches, most of my books related to entrepreneurship, … Read More →
Google AdWords – Search Ads Management
There is an amazing article about Google AdWords from the New York Times. It illustrates the management of an online campaign in AdWords for a company called Tiny Prints. This company advertisers on Google and gets a substantial part of its revenue and customers from … Read More →
Venture Capital Firms in Brazil, 2009
This is a special blog post dedicated to Brazil’s venture capital firms. Before getting into the list, I want to make it clear that private equity investments are much stronger than venture capital investments. There may be four reasons for a small venture capital market … Read More →
Stribe fast response to my previous post about its product
I am very impressed and glad by the speed that Stribe has replied to my post. A good entrepreneur should be able to react to the current dynamics of how people comment and make opinions about his product. A fast reply like that is a … Read More →
Make Your Own Shirt, Mug and Many Other Things Companies
It is hard to make money on the Internet. Currently, there are two famous ways to monetize on the Internet: advertising and e-commerce. In the advertising side, we have Google AdWords, Yahoo Marketing or Microsoft Advertising. These companies make money by having big audience that … Read More →
Hunch – What’s the best profession for me?
I was using Hunch this weekend to see how it works. It is a quiz guessing website. You make questions and it gives you its hunch about what the best thing is for you. I chose the What’s the best profession for me quiz. It … Read More →
Windside – Fancy Wind Turbine?
Windside – A Different Kind Of Wind Turbine. Read more: http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/11/13/windside-a-different-kind-of-wind-turbine/ Share and Enjoy:
Intermezzo, my life in Canada and Ivey – December 2009
I’m currently taking the MBA course at Ivey business school here in Canada. I started on August and it is impressive how many things we learned until now. I am very sure that I do not see business, organizations, finance, accounting and career management in … Read More →
Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World
I wonder what people in each of the high Internet speed market do. Share and Enjoy:
Book Review: The Back of the Napkin
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures I read this book and it is really great to show a new way of structure problem solving framework. It provides a a good introduction about the benefits of the visual thinking. Then, … Read More →
TiE Young Entrepreneurs Business Plan Competition 2010
I love this competition. It is one of the firsts business competition towards students from 9-12. This business plan is hosted by Carolinas – The Global Network of Entrepreneurs and the award for the winning team is USD 10K. It is important to foster this … Read More →
How is the Canadian venture capital industry going compared to the US?
People in the venture capital industry know that the VC industry is not going well in Canada. That is why it is even more important to know the situation in a quatitative point of view. The SME Financing Data Initiative is a government website that publishes … Read More →
Recipe for a Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurs
I’ve just read news from Revista Exame, a prestigious Brazilian weekly magazine, which talks about the new generation of entrepreneurs in Brazil. According to it, there are 10 million of Brazilian entrepreneurs and the new generation of entrepreneurs are creating companies because they believe they … Read More →
Smartphone: the next PC industry
There is a news from the CNET that tells that Smartphones and low-cost handsets will keep dominating the wireless market. The post tells that despite the fact of economic downturn, demand for smartphone remained high and this category grew 27% compared to the same quarter … Read More →
Flashback: My technology news for Folha de S. Paulo
It is nostalgic to see some of my texts written for Folha de Sao Paulo in 2003, a prestigious newspaper in Brazil. I worked for a couple of time and I wrote technology news, such as new wireless and mobile services, reviews about new notebooks, … Read More →
My three incredible years
Last Friday (July 17th) was my last at Google as a AdWords Product Specialist in Brazil. It was a fun, growing, interesting, deep, challenging and awesome experience. As a Google fan, I was lucky enough to work in the product development, engineering, marketing, project management, … Read More →
Twitter’s founder: Evan Williams
I became aware of Evan Williams from Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. He had a great and very interesting story about how he founded Blogger and all the hardship he had with it. I think one of the most interesting point is … Read More →
Au Pied de Couchon – My Fanciest Poutine Ever
One of the reason why I quit Google and moved to Canada is because of Poutine. It is serious! In 2006, I lived in Montreal to study French at University of Montreal and I discovered one of my favorite food: Poutine. It is a very … Read More →