Innovation and Entrepreneurship Events

It has been a while since our last post, but let’s try to catch up with some nice past and upcoming events that I am involved with. Those are not exactly typical startups events, but they show how this culture is finally gaining a higher importance in some institutional environments in Brazil. 

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O sucesso das empresas filhas da Unicamp  (Unicamp/Unitec - Limeira/SP – May 25)

Workshop Inovação na Prática – NIT Mantiqueira (São José dos Campos/SP – June 5)

Inova Campinas (Campinas/SP – June 11-12)

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Entrepreneurship expands way beyond São Paulo in Brazil

The entrepreneurship wave that we have been following up in Brazil is definitely gaining force all over the country. Initially with most of the news coming from São Paulo, the last events and news prove that this movement is here to change the market, not just a city or state.

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Brazilian E-Commerce reaches over US$10 Bi in sales

In the last year, most of the investments in the Brazilian startups targeted e-commerce businesses, including investments from some of the most traditional funds in the world, such as Tiger Global, Accel Partners, Intel Capital, RedPoint Ventures, just to mention a few. The numbers of this industry announced last week by e-bit confirms the potential.

According to the report presented by e-bit’s CEO Pedro Guasti, the Brazilian e-commerce reached R$ 18,7 billions (about US$ 10.5 billion) in sales in 2011, a 26% net growth compared to 2010. The emerging middle class represents 61% of the new 9 million e-consumers, that expended R$350 (about US$ 195) on average. Last year, 32 million consumers have bought at least once via web.

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2011 Brazilian Investments Market and What to Expect for 2012

An overview of the startups investments in the Brazilian market in 2011 and what to expect in 2012 is the subject of my new post at Pulso Social.

Watch it out here!

Pulso Social: Zeitgeist 2011 - Year in Review for Latin America

Without looking even more at Rebeca Black phenomenon, I've made an analysis about the facts and trends behind the rankings published by Google for Latin America.

Here is the link for my last week post at Pulso Social about it.