I met with Peter from DailyDinner.tv and I was delighted to hear about his entrepreneurial story. He did not have any previous experience in programming, video editing nor starting up a business, but he is an example of a true entrepreneur who is self-reliant and … Read More →
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MaRS – Videos and Resources to Entrepreneurs
http://vimeo.com/channels/ent101 MaRS offers a complete set of videos that provides business 101 to those who want to create a startup. The videos are pretty straight forward and the speakers are experienced entrepreneurs or people in the industry who provides great insights and share experiences.
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.
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/
Spudaroo.com – an outsourcing marketplace for documents in general
Spudaroo.com is a website that allows people to pay 3rd parties to create website documents, business plan, blog content, slide presentation, and even resume for lazy people. This is a Canadian startup and I wonder how effective is to outsource this type of work to … 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 →
Tinychat.com – Live video chatroom
Tinychat provides free video and audio chatroom for the mass. People can use this tool as a DJ room, virtual meeting presentation room or live interactive TV. I like this website because it’s free and for startups, this tool can connect our team member even … 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 →
Should Google censor information on behalf of governments?
I was reading this news Google Faces A Different World in Italy from the New York Times and it is about Google’s criminal charges related to privacy in Italy. A senior executive in Italy may get to jail because of an outcry over an online video … 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 →
Stribe – the top startup from Le Web 2009?
People from the Le Web 2009 in France was making such a fuss for Stribe. Stribe is a company puts a social network bar in your website. Basically, people who are signed in to the Stribe network will be able to have social network experience … 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 →
Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World
I wonder what people in each of the high Internet speed market do.
Book Review: Vault Career Guide to Venture Capital, 3rd Edition
This is a very interesting and basic book about Venture Capital industry. It does inform you some tips about what kind of skills and career path that you should take before joining in. Also, it provides and introductory level of terms and vocabulary for you … Read More →
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 →
How to Segment Different VC Firms?
After having to explain to my friends so many times about what a venture capital firm does, I created a simple and quick way to segment different kinds of VC firms. Basically, we can classify venture capital firms with 3 criteria: industry target, fund’s size … 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 →
Entrepreneurial Finance – Horizon Communications Corporation (A)
My last post from the Entrepreneurial Finance course is here. Today, I want to share my summary of the Horizon Communications Corporation (A) case study. This document basically shows the industry background of telecommunication in the 90′s. Basically, it highlights the Telecommunications Act of 1996 … Read More →
Entrepreneurial Finance – Centex Telemanagement, Inc.
I’ve started studying the Entrepreneurial Finance at MIT OpenCourseWare by myself a month ago. I wrote my first post about the first case study here (Technical Data Corporation Business Plan). Until now, I think the selection of the case studies are awesome. It presents many … 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 →