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Startupi has brought together a group of advisors (lawyers, accountants, engineers, administrators) who are interested in supporting tech businesses in creating projects to compete for the SELEÇÃO PÚBLICA MCT/FINEP/FNDCT - Subvenção Econômica à Inovação – 01/2010, a FINEP fund designed to support economic innovation. (Click the link to download the information about the fund).

The fund is designed to support Brazilian business via non-reimbursable grants, with a focus on product development, innovative processes and services, and development in areas considered strategic at the federal level.

We are seeking businesses who want to participate in a consortium. Our team’s role will be that of consultants, assisting in the process of documentation and organization required at all steps of the project, through execution. Read more…

A few days ago I met with two enthusiastic young entrepreneurs. After having studied and worked in the field, both in Brazil and abroad, they decided to build a tool to help make life easier for new entrepreneurs. Now they are promoting their first product - a social network that includes a  directory with virtual business cards, CRM, a B2B guide and client-satisfaction ratings. Meet Empreendemia.

Empreendemia is a network for professional contacts in which your business can organize client and supplier contacts in a simple, quick way; get to know new businesses; make new business connections; and promote the reputation of your business via evaluations by your customers. Read more…

Non-hierarchical patterns of relationships, distributed flow: these are the things I thought about when I saw the title of the book Olhares da Rede (Perspectives on the Net), written by students from the Cásper Líbero College. It revolves around a discussion between five international authors who develop their opinions on the themes, and it can be downloaded for free!

The other electronic book that awakened my interest is CulturaDigital.Br, written by members of the CulturaDigital community, which was created by the federal government to stimulate discussion and collaboration around the use of the Internet by everyday people in everyday life. Read more…

Sonico (”the social network that organizes people’s online life”) will open its first office outside Argentina in the second half of November.

The location they selected is São Paulo, and the Country Manager for Brazil will be Alexander de Freitas. The company announced improvements for the Brazilian version that will be released.

With over 20 years industry experience, Alexandre established his definitive links with the Internet 12 years ago. Since 2006 he has been CEO of HowStuffWorks Brazil, a Portuguese version of the North American site of the same name, which belongs to Discovery Communications (learn more). Read more…

SocialSmart and Amanaie were present at the Digiday:APPS conference in NYC on August 12th. SocialSmart is based in NY and SP, and includes Startupi in its Brazilian investments. Read more…

Migux is a Brazilian social network created for children in the style of a MMOSG (Massively Multi-user Online Social Game). The Migux, which are the playful avatars of the game, live in an aquatic world with different social and educational areas. The Migux move in a world created in Flash, where they can chat, collect objects, play games, maintain a personal page (in the form of a little house) and create and share content such as pictures. The functionality is that of a social network: communication, self-expression and entertainment. Read more…