#MissionBrasil12 - Spain meets the Brazilian market next week

Next week, a group of 20 selected startups from Spain is landing in São Paulo looking for business opportunities and partnerships in the Brazilian market. The mission is organized by ICEX, red.es, Banesto Fundación, Barcelonactiva and adigital. Innoveur is supporting the mission and invites you to two great opportunities to connect with this group.

Mobile Startups by MissionBrasil12, Innoveur & MoMo SP (June 18)

We are gathering the mission fellows, local devs, investors and entrepreneurs in an intimate networking event to share experiences and info about the local market. Besides, we will have a panel with Bruno Yoshimura (Kekanto), Carlos de Otto (Rockola Media Group), Felipe Matsunaga (Grupo RBS) and Anjos do Brasil (to be confirmed). It is free, you just have show up and have fun!

Encontro Digital Hispano-Brasileiro (June, 19)

One-a-One meetings with the mission's startups, a roundtable about high tech entrepreneurship and social media in Brazil and Spain and a networking cocktail. To apply free of charge, just fill out this short form, mentioning Innoveur.

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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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The year just starts after Carnival in Brazil. Really?

Brazilians get used to say that the year just starts for real after Carnival, which can happen in the beginning of February and sometimes March. Last week just proved that if this assumption was real once, something has changed in the entrepreneurial scene. Last Thursday, before Carnival starts, we had several big moves in the market involving two main verticals: restaurant reservation platforms and fashion e-commerce. 

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More than half of the Brazilian students wants to be an entrepreneur: the call, the hype or traditional leadership issues?

Ac couple weeks ago I've posted at Pulsosocial about an Endeavor's research that points out that over 50 percent of the Brazilian students wants to be an entrepreneur.

Besides the skilled workforce blackout that is already a reality in the high tech Brazilian market, those numbers lead us to another important question: is it due the call, the hype or issues with the traditional leadership style? 

An interesting aspect is that among those students, 7.6 percent are already entrepreneurs and most of them have other entrepreneurs in family. When it happens, the confidence of the potential entrepreneurs is lower than the average. It is certainly a symptom of the legal local system that makes the entrepreneurial life much harder than in other countries.

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