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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs. As China, Brazil and India prosper, their increasingly wealthy populations demand more high-end products – a trend that favors the innovation industry.

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I’m Robert Graham and I’m an internet entrepreneur working on software for deer management. He had studied business at Harvard and was an executive in the startup that built the first railroad from Brazil’s agricultural heartland to Sao Paulo. It usually went something like: “Hi.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

The fact that the Internet and remote work apps are finally fast and robust enough that near-seamless remote collaboration is possible. The internet itself, and most particularly last-mile connectivity, would not have supported the sudden global shift. Or the Harvard of Brazil? Many people are more productive working from home.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. in Brazil and 0.8 in Brazil and 0.8 I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs.

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Pitching Your Startup to Potential Enterprise Clients

ReadWriteStart

In the Internet startup space, some companies choose to develop enterprise solutions they hope will attract large corporate contracts. I am much more likely to take a tool and pilot it in Brazil or Australia versus trying it in the U.S. As a startup, understanding how a company handles risks can go a long way to inking a big contract.

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[Brazil] The Startup Samba: Internet Ventures Boom in “Brasilicon Valley”

YoungUpstarts

Fiercely intelligent, self-starting, and as at home in America as he is in Brazil, Vanossi is typical of a new generation of Brazilian tech innovators that is making Silicon Valley sit up and take notice. But Clickpic, is set to attract more than an initial R$500,000 (US $284,000) angel investment.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. The great thing is that via the Internet we CAN copy the principles of the best of them – Zappos’ and Mind Valley’s and scores of others are online for all to see. Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8

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