Today I had the pleasure of having breakfast with Bedy Yang, a Brazilian consultant with experience in fair trade, entrepreneurship and innovation. She’s been based in San Francisco for 7 years.
Bedy is using her experience and connections to prepare a Silicon Valley tour for Brazilian entrepreneurs, part of her project Brazil Innovators. Read more…
The Endeavor Institute offered a workshop featuring Levindo Santos yesterday. Video was streamed live online. Read more…
Thanks to Graciane Martins (who coordinated the space for project presentations at Campus Party), and her Project Gallery, the first ever TechValley event in Brazil will be held August 18th at the Unicamp campus, in Campinas. Read more…
The team from Saia do Lugar and Empreendemia, which published the book Desenvolvimento de Produtos Sem Enrolação (Product Development Made Easy), is offering a video conference course in product development. The course will be based on lean startup methodologies and focused on online products. Read more…
Roberto Fermino, an engineering student with an entrepreneurial spirit, sent me a very cool note about his observations from the recent Fórum Brasil Competitivo, which took place on the 27th in São Paulo. The theme was Innovation and Entrepreneurship. His comments follow: Read more…
Here’s a good tip from reader Ana Fontes (ElogieAki) via Twitter. FGV-EAESP, IE Business School and Goldman Sachs are organizing round three of the “10,000 Women” project in Brazil.
The idea is to develop the entrepreneurial spirit and management skills for women who already have a business of their own up and running.
Applications are being taken until July 20th. Candidates will be evaluated via interviews. There will be 200 class hours in São Paulo during August. For more info, see here. Read more…
