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Brazil’s Silicon Valley continues to throw out one surprise after another. Videolog, for example, is a Rio-based company in a constant state of innovation, both technological and in terms of engaging audiences. Some news this year has been very positive. Read more…

Dreaming, struggling, chasing after hope. Inspiration, planning, management… getting results and realizing your goals is bound up in putting your strategies into practice - real life stories are full of examples that show how necessary all these things are.

Tim Ferriss teaches that one can build a “muse” business and have a four-hour work week; in reality it takes all these factors together to create a huge opportunity for success. That’s what happened to Ben Huh. Read more…

The editor of TechCrunch, Sarah Lacy, announced she would come to Brazil as part of a Latin American tour (to write a book about entrepreneurship), but she wasn’t able to get her visa in time. She wrote a controversial post speaking ill of Brazil, and left open the possibility of coming in December or January.

We are sorry she didn’t make it here to share knowledge; both she and TechCrunch come with a certain reputation. We are also sorry that her cancellation had negative repercussions, which don’t mesh with the maturation of startup culture. But we celebrate the coming of so many other important foreigners from the Internet world. Today, a well-known author did speak in São Paulo; he’s said he’s interested in writing about our startups. Read more…

At the request of people who participated and those who couldn’t attend, I’ve published a podcast of the conversation between Brazilian bloggers and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Read more…

The month of March promises endless interesting events. Maybe it’s like people say, that the year doesn’t really start until after Carnival. It’s starting out strong. This week is the 12th edition of Chat about E-commerce, and next week is the new round of ResultsON Day, this time focused on sales. Read more…

This blog, Startupi, has a definite objective. In Brazil in recent years there’s been a surge in internet startups, businesses seeking a place in the sun. It’s a market of people with innovative ideas which is not covered anywhere on the internet.

The idea originated when an American investor, Michael Nicklas, was researching the Brazilian market and could not find a single source for this type of information. In his search he contacted people like Gilberto Jr. and founded Social Smart to promote investment in the Brazilian market.

SocialSmart is a holding company that is an umbrella for two startups at the moment: Amanaiê, which develops social applications (predominantly using Open Social) and now Startupi, this blog which intends to cover the growing Brazilian startup market.

But is there an audience for this?

This question is easily answered. For starters there are many undiscovered tech startups in Brazil. Moreover, there are already investors interested in this market who are putting their money into innovative ideas.

The great challenge for Startupi is to stimulate this market in various ways: connecting entrepreneurs and investors, educating people with good ideas on how to procede, transforming the Brazilian market into an attractive place for venture capital, and more.

So enjoy this blog and I hope that Startupi serves as a platform for discussion about the startup market in Brazil.