Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Although the Internet gives you pervasive reach, it hasn’t reduced the world to one locale for your business. Some years ago Brazil had a major balance of payments deficit. Therefore Brazil made it difficult to import products from abroad. Thus, when the government creates restrictions, think out of the box.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

The Israeli government launched a plan to attract financial services sector firms to Israel in 2010 and is in talks with other international financial services companies that are considering opening financial research centers in Israel. DELL INAUGURATES ISRAELI R&D CENTER, DOUBLES WORKERS.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Then, when I was running MTV in Latin America but my parents were in London, it was the Volleyball World Championship Final, Poland vs Brazil. That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. In the U.K.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

In China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Taiwan, exporting SMEs are roughly twice as likely to report such rapid growth compared to their non-exporting counterparts, while exporting SMEs in Brazil, Colombia and India are between 1.1-1.3 times more likely to achieve rapid growth. A shared imperative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

With the advent of the Internet, it’s easy to think of the world as one locale for your business. Some years ago Brazil had a major balance of payments deficit. Therefore Brazil made it difficult to import products from abroad. Thus, when the government creates restrictions, think out of the box. Local laws prevail.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

By 2015, 32% of the population will use a mobile phone to access the internet. 1) There’s a growing buzz around entrepreneurship - several people mentioned that in the past, students that graduated from college hurried to find a job in big company and in the case of Brazil also the government. But that is now changing.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach. Governments supportive of technology. In Africa in particular governments are very involved in promoting technology and see it as a future industry that will kick start the economy.

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Bryce Dot VC

JUNE 26, 2013

Countless voices have taken to the airwaves and tubes to weigh in on where lines should be drawn and whether those rules should be different depending on the intent of those prying eyes- be they corporate or government for ad targeting or target practice. And in many respects it was. But collective eyes were watching. We are watching.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

After I looked like a slob on the biggest day of my life I scoured the internet to find the solution I was looking for. 4- Provide intelligence to the government and the public. Government and the American public. Photo Credit: Rob Kessler. I started my business because I hated the way my dress shirt looked on my wedding day.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Felipe grew up in Brazil. It seemed that back then the US government recognized the importance of attracting the best and brightest from around the world. I certainly don’t want the next generation of iPad-like innovation to come “with an Internet nanny filter called Green Dam Youth Escort.&# Do you?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Most outcomes analysis you will do in identifying your macro and micro conversions (for profit or non profit sites, government or ecommerce) will happen inside other tools mentioned in this blog post. I firmly believe that God created the internet so we could fail faster. Outcomes Analysis Tools [The "How Much"].

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 6, 2018

I’m speaking this summer at the Social Good Brazil event – which is larger than ours in New York City. You look at internet crazies who are doing better than academics who have all these truths and all these facts. It's very opaque in terms of how it's governed and how the algorithms work.

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Transformify

AUGUST 6, 2015

According to Nepali government officials, it will cost over $6.6bn and at least five years to reconstruct and rebuild the country. May Mark Zuckerberg’s free Internet project help more on the long run than the one –off donations? It will take years for the country to recover as its economy is heavily dependent on tourism.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day. If your desire was to make yourself look like an ignorant internet troll … I believe you have succeeded.

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