21212 Accelerator

English and Portuguese glossary of financial, accounting and legal terms. - Glossário de termos usados nas áreas finaceira, contábil e jurídica.

This is a great site from Kevin Rose (Digg) with beautiful and insightful videos of great start-up founders 

Excerpt from Steve Blank's The Startup Owner's Manual

A bit more information about running lean methodology in portuguese

Chamath Palihapitiya

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"Quando se trata de inovação, os riscos são muito maiores do que nos negócios tradicionais. Se uma área é conhecida, já se sabe quais são os riscos daquela atividade", diz Ricardo Sazima, cofundador da Inova Venture Participações, empresa que pretende fazer investimentos iniciais em startups. "O conceito de desenvolvimento de startups gira em torno de acelerar todos os processos, seja empresarial, de estruturação ou de investimento", diz Sazima. Por aqui, uma iniciativa tenta dar agilidade a processos - ao menos aos burocráticos. Está em estudo a inclusão no Parque Tecnológico de Sorocaba (PTS), ainda em fase de projeto, uma espécie de Poupatempo da Inovação, que centralizará todos os órgãos e instituições envolvidas no processo de inovação tecnológica.

Tudo mastigado!

Vidyoo is a new 'people discovery' platform for Facebook. While it's broadly aimed at 'meeting new people', it's really focusing on the lucrative dating market. It launched officially for the public yesterday, and promises to help you meet people who match your interests and preferences, with the main interaction subsequently taking place over video chat.

"It's an understatement to say that building a thriving marketplace is tough. Getting both sides of a transaction at the same place at the same time for the same thing can feel like it's an order of magnitude more difficult than a more traditional one-sided commerce business. But when the magic happens, it happens, and all of a sudden you've got Kickstarter."

interesting that rocket just sold half of their LATAM and Africa operations for $400M, with an option for Millicom to buy the other half within the next 4 years at FMV

Facebook "The perfect Startup" - New Study dedicated to FB"

Google just added a small but interesting new feature to its Google Analytics product. You can now see how much of your site your visitors are really seeing based on the new browser-size analysis the company just added to Google Analytics.

Just something to look at