Desafio Brasil: Campinas regional finals occurs next Friday

Next Friday (August 5, 2011) occurs in Campinas the regional finals of Desafio Brasil (Brazil Challenge). The challenge is designed by Intel and organized by FGV-CEPE (Private Equity and Venture Capital Research Center of Getúlio Vargas Foundation). The pre-selected teams will be judged by several venture capitalists and experienced entrepreneurs. The three best startups will compete on the nationals in São Paulo. This challenge has been occurring in Brazil since 2006 and is the most complete and comprehensive startups’ challenge in the country.

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Investments Tips III - Angel Investing

Another not to be missed blog with extremely valuable tips for Brazilian entrepreneurs: Angel Investing (some posts in Portuguese and others in English).

The blog is written by Fernando Campos (Gávea Angels), one of the angel investors in attendence to our I CampinasTECH Meetup. Some "must read" posts:

• Os 5 maiores erros na busca por investimento anjo (The 5 biggest mistakes searching for angel investments)
• Quanto vale uma ideia? (What is the value of an idea?)

 Looking forward to read the next posts ...

Caipira Ágil (Agile Hick) - Another great event @Unicamp on July 2011

On July 23, 2011 happens the first Caipira Ágil (Agile Hick) at FEEC Unicamp. The purpose of the event is to gather the Agile Community of Campinas area during a whole day to debate, teach and learn the Agile Culture, Management and Development Techniques.

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Zeewe have just reached 1M users

On July 8, 2011,  Zeewe has just reached 1 million users.

Movile, the company in charge of this the HTML5 based mobile app store is looking foward to reach 2 million users very soon.

In June, Zeewe and Movile's strategy was the subject matter of a very nice article at ReadWriteWeb US: Brazilian Mobile 1.0 Leader Launches HTML5 Mobile Web App Social APIs.

I CampinasTECH Meetup Boosting Angel Investments in Brazil

As we have announced before, last Thursday happened the I Campinas TECH Meetup – Investments. For the very first time in Brazil, an event was designed (and executed) to promote the one-to-one contact between investors and entrepreneurs with investments purpose and the results are being amazing.

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