There are innumerable collective buying sites on the web: Coletivar, Wego!, ClickOn, Peixe Urbano, City Best, Imperdível, Oferta X, Clube Urbano and Oferta Única, just to name a few that have come on the scene recently. Read more…
Ten years ago Rafael Siqueira did some innovating with the business where he worked. He got some perspective, left, put together a team, built a prototype, got funding and now has a diverse portfolio of products and clients, including big ones like Google. This week, his company, Apontador, has come forth as one of the best private companies in the world in the area of geolocalization. Read more…
FGV is once again offering the Latin American component (in its third edition) of I2P, Idea to Product.
The competition seeks to recognize entrepreneurs in the earliest stages of their projects. Latin American finalists will go to Austin, Texas, USA for the finals. Read more…
Yesterday in downtown São Paulo I came across this interesting scene. About 25 people were gathered around a guy who was speaking in a microphone and writing on a whiteboard.
The subject: math! The method: evangelizing along the lines of “who can do this right here and now?” The objective: selling math class videos. An interesting case of customer development!
But who’s interested in math classes? Especially right downtown? Your fooling yourself if you think math has nothing to do with the day-to-day work of many professionals. It’s exactly this barrier that professor William Barbosa is trying to bring down with his Simple Math product. Read more…
I spoke to Marcelo Macedo, who used to work at Morgan Stanley before joining up with Paulo Humberg (investor in BrandsClub, founder of ShopTime, Lokau) and João Ramirez (founder of Migux) to get involved with ClickOn.
The three Brazilians have had the support of two Germans: Klaus Hommels (who has spent time at AOL Germany, BenchMark Capital, and has invested in Facebook, Skype, and BrandsClub) and Oliver Jung (investor in BrandsClub, Brands4Friends, FashionFriends and KupiVIP). Read more…
The new mobile application Pé2, launched by Marco Vanossi, uses image recognition to allow the user to point the cell phone at an object and find out more about it. Have we just taken another step towards a digitally augmented society?
“Pé2 developed an algorithm capable of recognizing an object among thousands of images in fractions of a second. Our technology makes it possible to identify objects in photographs taken with the mobile phone camera, for example,” explains Vanossi on the app website. Read more…
