I just received an interesting email and I thought I’d pass it along.
“Hello, I’m a Brazilian woman living in London, where I have some projects, one of these being a magazine and network for and about women entrepreneurs, investors and leaders in the web world. Read more…
Entrepreneur Luiz Piovesana has written a guest article for Startupi which is presented below in its entirety. Luiz has a long history of work and study in the area of entrepreneurship. He edits the blog Saia do Lugar and recently launched Empreendemia, a b2b site for entrepreneurs. Read more…
January 8th was the third annual Crunchies Awards, sponsored by the internet technology blog TechCrunch.
The event took place in partnership with GigaOM (see their recently referenced cloud computing article here) and VentureBeat (which has previously written about Brazil as the next frontier in social advertising).
More than 900 people gathered in the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco for the awarding of the trophies to the best entrepreneurs, investors and startups in the world.
See the list of winners here.
And below you can see video of the awards in each category:
Live TV : Ustream
Semana Global de Empreendedorismo (Global Entrepreneurship Week), with its slogan “Make it Happen” (Bota pra fazer), is an event designed to awaken the entrepreneurial spirit. This year it is being held simultaneously in 90 countries.
In Brazil the event is being led by the Endeavor Institute, and there will be lectures, workshops, games, fairs and other initiatives taking place around Brazil, to help make you more enterprising.
Startupi will be participating in two ways: 1) I will be the official Tweeter of the Week, doing the coverage of several activities; 2) and Startupi has joined with the Microsoft SOL (Startups On Line) program and the system of innovation for social businesses at The Hub in São Paulo to promote a special event. Read more…
The bubble bursts: it’s a frightening expression. Not like “hyperactivity” or “nerd” which have acquired a positive (and era-defining) connotation. The bubble bursting: an act or effect of business and investment standards which cannot sustain itself. A lack of vision, performance, or prospects?
The world has experienced several crises, such as the first Internet bubble in 2001. Credit for that went to novelty and expectations, which weren’t moving in step with reality’s comportment nor with business practices. It wasn’t the first localized crisis to have world wide effects, nor the first to be overcome slowly.
This year, when Barack Obama assumed the presidency of the United States, he said hope for the country to overcome the crisis lay with small, innovative businesses. What luck, then, that in Brazil as well as overseas, incentives for digital culture and entrepreneurism are in vogue, expressed in so many kinds of events. Read more…
In the final days of August we could follow (in person or on the web) an array of Brazilian events related to the participative web. Some are more niche, but even so they are relevant in their context. They show that the Internet matters in Brazil. In September, there are as many events. Read more…
