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 →
Tag Archives: Social Network
Startup: Sprouter is a entrepreneur social network
Sprouter is a social network that connects entrepreneurs around the world. It is one of those website for grass-rooting campaigns for entrepreneurs to share their ideas. I’m not sure if that’s effective given that there are many social network dedicated to the same thing.
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 →
Zynga gets another $180 million, expect more game addicts on Facebook
Zynga is the company responsible for all those spam like games, such as FarmVille or MafiaWars. All these games are targeted to Facebook and they make money by showing advertisements. All these social type of games target the very basic human emotion of achievement. Most … Read More →
My three incredible years
Last Friday (July 17th) was my last at Google as a AdWords Product Specialist in Brazil. It was a fun, growing, interesting, deep, challenging and awesome experience. As a Google fan, I was lucky enough to work in the product development, engineering, marketing, project management, … Read More →
A VC firm makes money – Accel and Facebook case – Part 2
Remember from the last post: “At the end, we see that Peter Thiel got XXXX % (I can’t find the info, but this does not matter in our discussion of how a VC firm makes money rfom now) of Facebook with US$ 500,000 in June … Read More →
A VC firm makes money – Accel and Facebook case – Part 1
Background information: Accel Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm. It invests in many industries such as Computing, Consumer Internet, Engergy, etc (there are 11 industries). Increadibly, Accel has invested in 197 companies (I did not count one by one but I use … 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.
Startup Camp 6 Montreal – Pictures
Yesterday, I was in the Startup Camp 6 Montreal and it was an amazing experience to meet with highly motivated people in the Montreal’s community. It makes entrepreneurship to be highly contagious!