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 →
Tag Archives: Networking
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 →
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 →
Event: Launch Silicon Valley 2009
When: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Where: Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, CA It is an event to showcase the latest startups from the information technology, mobility, security, digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy industries. Entrepreneurs who … Read More →
Link: TheStartup, European Startups and Entrepreneurs
TheStartup is a blog about European startups and entrepreneurs, it is a quite new website and it looks promising. Some of the highlights in the website: European Founders Capital, a 20m fund for european tech startups yellowBird creates the first 360° immersive video theStartup … Read More →
Ning
Ning is a kind of more evoled Yahoo or Google groups. It says that it is a new way to build your own social network site, but I see it as a normal discussion group with up-to-date web 2.0 resources and tools.
Highrise
Highrise is my new adopted contact manager and personal CRM! It is a great tool to get myself organized about personal tasks with other people and an awesome tool for keeping track of my networking activities.
Swedish Startups
This is an event that happens somewhere in Sweden for the Swedish Startups group. http://swedishstartups.ning.com/
Jantar de Resultados Endeavor 2008
I cannot believe that I achieved my objective of going to the Endeavor’s dinner. It was a great experience. People are very interesting. Entrepreneurs, volunteers and Endeavor’s people, each, have a very unique story to share. Moreover, people in the dinner are believers that entrepreneurship … Read More →
Sametags.com – Relevant Twitter Search Engine
I met with Alain Lavoie and Nicolas Gosseline and they have this great Twitter Search idea of using relevant data from Twitter to display relevant profiles for the subject you are looking for. Differently from other searches, it uses more “sticky” data such as the … Read More →