I am having fun and great time with my MBA classmates here at London. Today, we are having an amazing race, so we can know each other and the city better.

My team is the number one team. Mike, Peter, Kyle, Elika and I are running throughout the city to catch clues, do some tasks, take some pictures, shoot some videos and have great fun.

Until now, our team is doing great. I can’t tell you how well we are now because of competitive issues but I believe we will definitely be the first.

Here are some of the pictures. Enjoy!

Thanks Googlers!

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, education, training and sales sides of this great company. I was able to see the wholeness of how this behemoth company works and the more I knew the company, the more I admired Google.

Besides that, I admired Googlers the most. Googlers are extremely smart, intelligent and nice to work with. They do have a really high standards about any kind of work. That environment challenged me to do my best and to grow even more.

It was sad my last day, but I believe I will see my coworkers from Google someday again.

Now, I’m focus on my MBA in Canada.

Some of my Google experience left on the Internet:

Novos Recursos do Google Analytics (in Portuguese only)
Google University – AdWords Além da Busca? – SMX Sao Paulo
Google Developer Days 2007

I need to finish these books before starting my MBA in Canada in September!

The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth

Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur

Venture Capital Due Diligence: A Guide to Making Smart Investment Choices and Increasing Your Portfolio Returns

Entrepreneur's Guide to Preparing a Winning Business Plan and Raising Venture Capital

Load Impact - check how well you website can handle heavy workload @ http://loadimpact.com/

Seedcamp – check an entrepreneur event where you can meet with a lot of interestign people with interesting ideas @ http://seedcamp.com/

Chocolate Cookies – I made some cookies today with this recipe @ http://www.joyofbaking.com/ChocolateCookies.html

A Run - an Ivey student blog about his preparation for the MBA @ http://totalenthu.blogspot.com/

Ivey Entrepreneurship – Ivey’s blog about entrepreneurship in Canada and elsewhere @ http://iveyentrepreneur.blogspot.com/

Job seekers guide for venture capital – Rotman Business School’s listing about interesting information for those who are going to become VC someday @ http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/bic/CCC/targetVenture.htm

Introduction to Financial Accounting – Online course (UC Berkeley Extension) @ http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course328.html

Introduction to Managerial Accounting - Online course (UC Berkeley Extension) @ http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course542.html

Essentials of Business - Online course (UC Berkeley Extension) @ http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course330.html

Business Writing Review - Online course (UC Berkeley Extension) @ http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course91.html

Business Valuation - Online course (UC Berkeley Extension) @ http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course123.html

General Psychology - Online course (UC Berkeley Extension) @ http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course1467.html

Introduction to Writing Fiction - Online course (UC Berkeley Extension) @ http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course180.html

Introduction to Capital Budgeting - Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8561

Essentials of Business Plan Writing (Online) - Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8526

Elements of Corporate Finance (Online) - Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8370

Introduction to Mergers and Acquisitions (Online) - Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8375

Fundamentals of Business Administration and Management (Online) - Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8639

Planning for Success - Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8549

Fundamentals of Business Strategy - Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8547

Introduction to Boards -  Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8560

Entrepreneurial Marketing -  Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8559

Introduction to Venture Capital -  Online course (UCLA Extension) @ https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U8373