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The outlook for research science isn’t pretty. During the current explosion of technology innovation, a near instinctual collaborative environment, and an unparalleled time of data housing and processing being a scientist and asking daring questions should be the norm. But it isn’t. Instead, being a research scientist is extremely hard. And according to a recently …
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In my last Blog Post I wrote about “The Art of Learning by Doing” in Entrepreneurship. Of course, nobody does things alone. We need support. From people, connections, spaces, schools, mentoring, investors and so on. One thing that I’ve always hear when Mentoring or even Lecturing about Entrepreneurship is the question: should I apply for …
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Books and Blogs (well not this one…) trying to teach you how to become an Entrepreneur. I’ve been there; it helps but there is no “magic bullet” when building Start Ups. There are a lot of books teaching you how to build a Start Up from an Idea, how to create a Business Model (BM), …
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We all know that the path to become an entrepreneur is a very difficult one. To build a company from the ground up, getting Investors on board, the Midia covering and all the fuzz around is like a rollercoaster. The most important part of becoming an entrepreneur is to create value, building a product and/or …
by Juliana Saldanha, Marketing Director & Vinicius Roman, Project Director @Techmall S.A. Before we delve into our discussion in this post, it is important to understand what is an ecosystem. In biology, ecosystem is defined as a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. In our case, we will discuss the Brazilian ecosystem …
Adapted from a Post by Arthur Gogatz from the World Innovation Team The Western Business Model (WBM) has been used for centuries. It describes the way the world traditionally does business. The foundation of the WBM is that business is war. Anything you buy helps someone and equally hurts someone else. If you buy products …
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I once read that entrepreneurship is a combination of science and art. In some ways this is true. The main principle to be a Scientist is to create a hypothesis (or several) based on what is already described and somehow change the “status quo” and/or “invent” something new that will become a Thesis. In science, …
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