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Pedro Mifano Motoryn and Maria Isabel Miranda have launched a beta site for their startup, which is an employment site for startups that lists job openings and professional profiles for employees.

The idea for MaisStartup was born when Pedro and Maria Isabel looked at the gap in the market for startup employment. Traditional job placement services and websites didn’t have a category for startups. “We aren’t like other sites: it’s not just about building your resume or furthering your career. Some people want to be part of something bigger, to learn about entrepreneurship and to work in an entrepreneurial environment,” explains the MaisStartup site. Read more…

It takes two to tango. Other activities require two (or more) people, too, and sometimes you aren’t sure who to call.  Meetango was invented to solve this problem, especially around activities involving going to a specific location. It’s a social network where you can get together with others to meet at places and do things. Read more…

I am publishing, with the consent of Márcia Lima, the responses I gave to questions from her earlier interview  “Empreender 2.0: o desafio startups” (Entrepreneurship 2.0: the startup challenge), which was published earlier this month on the website Baguete, which is a southern Brazilian site covering IT business.

The article also included responses from Edson Mackeenzy (Videolog) and Gilberto Jr (Amanaiê).

The questions Márcia had asked were: Read more…

I received a question from a new reader of Startupi:

“Hello. Diego, my understanding of startups is that they are companies that finance or make possible new business. Am I wrong? I want to understand this better.”

Let’s see how I handle the challenge. Read more…

That’s it! The value of the purchase by the brazilians was not revealed but it’s said they now own 75% of the company. By the way, almost nothing was revealed about this new acquisition from the heroes of the brazilian startup scene: no traditional press coverage and just a bit mentioned on Twitter (only some colombians retweeting the same 2 colombian posts - and it doesn’t mean we have relentlessly adopted every imaginable method of acquiring information).

Actually, neither the press assistants of the involved companies did communicate this. The acquisition was announced this Wednesday in Colombia, was covered on some sites there, and was shared by Startupi’s friend Alan Colmenares (of TaironaMedia), who had just lectured at Bogotech event.

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If you recall, Campus Party Brazil 2010 (which took place at the end of January) hosted a contest called Campuseiros Apresentam (”Campus Party Participants Present”). Ten projects were selected and were presented again at the finals and now we have the list of finalists:
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