Are you an entrepreneur, making things happen? Check out this competition.
The Prêmio de Competitividade para Micro e Pequenas - MPE Brasil, is sponsored by Sebrae, the Movimento Brasil Competitivo,the Fundanção Nacional da Qualidade and GERDAU. Applications closed on August 2nd.
Last year there were 57,000 applicants! MPE Brasil is aimed at micro and small businesses that meet the following criteria: Read more…
Applications are being accepted until July 30th for the 2010 Finep Innovation Prize. Small and micro businesses as well as innovative inventors will be considered. Read more…
Tuesday was the first day of the four-day long YouPix event, and the Best of the Web finalists were announced. 200 people involved in the Brazilian internet did the voting, and narrowed all the submissions down to a list of five finalists in each of 18 categories, ranging from serious to silly. Read more…
Remember that success in business depends on competitiveness, which depends on competence? Well how about some competitions? At a minimum competitions offer experience, feedback, networking, visibility and a sense of realizing ones projects. And there are prizes to win!
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Young Marcos Roberto Martins of Brasília, DF, won the grand prize at the first “Foro de Proyectos América Latina,” during Campus Party Europe.
He presented his iTV Project: a tool for creating, testing and distributing apps for digital television.
Check out the video of the presentation (below the fold) and read more about it on this blog. We’ll be coming back to this topic in a future post! Read more…
Remember Netweaving for Innovation’s trip in which TeiaMG representative Juliana Lima went to Silicon Valley? One of the fruits of this trip came from a conversation she had with the decision makers at Ning.com (a tool for social networks that supports OpenSocial).
Juliana told them about the trends in Brazil, and they decided to offer a Ning Developer Challenge in Brazil. Read more…
