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		<title>SLL2011 Simulcast Canceled Due to Instable Stream Received</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunatelly, though we tested with a couple other live streamings recently, and had a few sucessful simulcasts in the past, we could not achieve a viable streaming here at CEI/UFRGS and canceled the event at 15:00.We are investigating with the university IT dept what (if any) measures we can take in the future to better [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunatelly, though we tested with a couple other live streamings recently, and had a few sucessful simulcasts in the past, we could not achieve a viable streaming here at CEI/UFRGS and canceled the event at 15:00.We are investigating with the university IT dept what (if any) measures we can take in the future to better safeguard against such happenings. We thank all those who came to CEI/UFRGS, and hope to see you in future startup and entrepreneurship events. Good bit is that we could see how the big interest re Lean Startups and Entrepreneurship in POA.</p>
<p>Sincerelly,</p>
<p>Hugo Pinto</p>
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		<title>Startup Lessons Learned Simulcast at CEI/UFRGS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 01:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A AI Engineers, with suppport from the Centro de Empreendimentos em Informática incubator of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Federal University of RS), will hold a simulcast of the Startup Lessons Learned 2011 conference, at Auditorio Castilho/  Instituto de Informática / UFRGS / Campus do Vale/ Porto Alegre/RS from 12:30 to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A <strong><a href="../../">AI Engineers</a>,</strong> with suppport from the <a href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/cei">Centro de Empreendimentos em Informática</a> incubator of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Federal University of RS), will hold a simulcast of the <a href="http://www.sllconf.com/" target="_blank">Startup Lessons Learned 2011</a> conference, at Auditorio Castilho/  Instituto de Informática / UFRGS / Campus do Vale/ Porto Alegre/RS from 12:30 to 21:30 GMT-3.</p>
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		<title>Simulcast do  Startup Lessons Learned 2011 no CEI/UFRGS/Porto Alegre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 19:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A AI Engineers, com apoio do Centro de Empreendimentos em Informática / UFRGS, promoverá no dia 23/05 a transmissão simultânea do evento Startup Lessons Learned 2011,  direto de San Francisco, no Auditorio Castilho, localizado no Instituto de Informática da UFRGS, Campus do Vale, em Porto Alegre/RS.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A <strong><a href="http://www.ai-engineers.com">AI Engineers</a>,</strong> com apoio do <a href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/cei">Centro de Empreendimentos em Informática</a> / UFRGS, promoverá no dia 23/05 a transmissão simultânea do evento <a href="http://www.sllconf.com/" target="_blank">Startup Lessons Learned 2011</a>,  direto de San Francisco, no Auditorio Castilho, localizado no Instituto de Informática da UFRGS, Campus do Vale, em Porto Alegre/RS.</p>
<p>O evento esta aberto a estudantes, empreendedores, academicos, executivos e consultores interessados em se atualizar nas praticas consagradas do empreendedorismo de alto impacto do Vale do Silicio e que<strong> se sintam confortaveis em assistir a um evento em lingua inglesa sem traducao simultanea ou legendas</strong>.</p>
<p>O Startups Lessons Learned esta em sua segunda edicao, e contara com palestrantes como <a href="http://www.steveblank.com" target="_blank">Steve Blank</a>(prof. em Stanford, empreendedor serial, e criador do conceito de &#8220;customer development&#8221; ), Eric Ries (&#8220;The Lean Startup&#8221;), Suneel Gupta (VP do Groupon), Drew Houston (co-fundador do DropBox), entre outras referencias em empreendedorismo e inovacao. A lista completa de palestras e paineis esta disponivel no site do evento: <a href="http://www.sllconf.com/" target="_blank">http://www.sllconf.com.</a></p>
<p>Dado a missao educativa do Instituto de Informatica,  de promocao de empreendedorismo do CEI, e o privilegio de poder transmitir simultaneamente a SLL, o evento nao tera onus para os participantes, que deverao apenas se inscrever antecipadamente para nos planejarmos.<br />
Mais informacoes e inscricoes em: <a href="http://sll2011poasimulcast.eventbrite.com/" target="_self">http://sll2011poasimulcast.eventbrite.com/</a></p>
<p>Para updates: @aiengineers e @hugopintobr</p>
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		<title>AI Engineers at BITS South America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 22:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AI Engineers will be in booth C13 (CEI/UFRGS) of BITS South America &#8211; the LATAM version of Hannover&#8217;s CEBIT. BITS has most of the main featues one would expect from CEBIT &#8211; delegations from various countries (USA, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Argentina, Uruguay,Mexicon, among others), Incubators and Tech Parks (CEI/UFRGS, Tecnosinos, Tecnopuc), a parallel congress with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AI Engineers will be in booth C13 (CEI/UFRGS) of BITS South America &#8211; the LATAM version of Hannover&#8217;s CEBIT. BITS has most of the main featues one would expect from CEBIT &#8211; delegations from various countries (USA, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Argentina, Uruguay,Mexicon, among others), Incubators and Tech Parks (CEI/UFRGS, Tecnosinos, Tecnopuc), a parallel congress with the latest trends, bizz meetings, etc. If you undersand portuguese and would like to get a gimpse of the latest trends in IT, as well as the impact of social media, cloud computing, mobility, social networks, the new brazilian middle class, collective buying,etc, you should definitelly come to Porto Alegre and attend BITS.</p>
<p>We promise to offer you a warm welcome at our booth at C 13 and plenty of useful insights for your business after leaving the conference.</p>
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		<title>Por que participar da BITS South America?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nesta semana, de 10-12 de maio, em Porto Alegre/RS, acorrerá a BITS IT South America, a versão LATAM da feira CEBIT de Hannover.
Se você ocupa uma posição executiva em uma empresa consolidada que depende de TI ou desenvolve soluções na área, certamente achará interessante participar do Encontro de Negócios AL-Invest, onde empresas da Europa e [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nesta semana, de 10-12 de maio, em Porto Alegre/RS, acorrerá a <a title="Bits South America" href="http://www.bitsouthamerica.com.br" target="_blank">BITS IT South America</a>, a versão LATAM da feira CEBIT de Hannover.</p>
<p>Se você ocupa uma posição executiva em uma empresa consolidada que depende de TI ou desenvolve soluções na área, certamente achará interessante participar do <a title="Encontro de Negócios BITS" href="http://www.bitsouthamerica.com.br/encontro_negocios.html" target="_blank">Encontro de Negócios AL-Invest</a>, onde empresas da Europa e das Américas poderão marcar reuniões para estabelecer parcerias, representações, comprar e vender, etc.</p>
<p>O <a title="LATAM Congress on ICT 2011" href="http://www.bitsglobalconferences.com.br/imprensa/imprensa-03.php#" target="_blank">Latin American Congress on ICT Trends</a> terá três trilhas, que prometem agradar não só aos executivos e profissionais de TI, como também aos profissionais de marketing, planejamento estratégico e segurança:</p>
<p>Na trilha 3, sobre mídias sociais, você poderá conferir palestras de Martha Gabriel(dia 10), Fedrizzi/Escal(dai 12)a, e Gil Giardeli(dia 12), entre outros profissionais de peso, abordando temas como monitoramento de mídias sociais, uso para impulsionar novos negócios, mudanças organizacinais a partir de seu uso, etc.</p>
<p>Se você tem interesse nos aspectos legais e organizacionais da segurança da informação, creio que considerará um excelente investimento de seu tempo prestigiar o painel do dia 11, <a title="Programacao dia 2 ICT Congress" href="http://www.bitsglobalconferences.com.br/programacao-dia-02.php" target="_blank">Desafios e Políticas de Segurança de TI</a> , e ainda assistir aos painels sobre E-gov e M-gov, para entender como mobilidade e TI tem sido incorporados ao dia a dia da gestão pública.</p>
<p>Para a gestão estratégica de seu negócio e para o planejamento de novos empreendimentos e produtos, vale a pena se atualizar com os impactos da computação em nuvem(seção nesta terça-feira a tarde), mobilidade(quinta-feira pela manha, com Prof. Newton Braga Rosa), outsourcing(quinta a tarde, com Frank Casale do Outsource Institute) e a nova classe média brasileira(keynote do André Torreta, na quarta).</p>
<p>Finalmente, não importante seu interesse primário, as empresas expositoras são uma atração em si, dado que você poderá conferir em primeira mão as mais recentes novidades produzidas pela indústria de TI do BR e do mundo, com delegações internacionais de diversos países, em especial Bulgária e Alemanha, e presença dos parques tecnológicos e incubadoras do RS, incluindo, naturalmente, o <a title="CEI-UFRGS" href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/cei" target="_blank">CEI</a>/UFRGS (estande C13), onde a <a title="AI Engineers" href="http://www.ai-engineers.com" target="_self">AI Engineers</a> estará recebendo convidados, parceiros e clientes durante o evento.</p>
<p>Espero vê-lo em breve na BITS &#8211; você será muito bem recebido em nosso estande, e deixará o evento com novos insights aplicáveis a seu trabalho!</p>
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		<title>An AI Engineer meets BRInnovators and Geeks on a Plane Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 19:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the weekend of May 1st, two key events took place in são Paulo. No, not the Indy race, nor the syndicalized workers manifestations. I am talking about Geeks on Beer on Saturday 31st and BR Innovators BRNewTech Geeks on a Plane Special Edition on May 1st, two events that mark a key point in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } -->On the weekend of May 1<sup>st</sup>, two key events took place in são Paulo. No, not the Indy race, nor the syndicalized workers manifestations. I am talking about Geeks on Beer on Saturday 31<sup>st</sup> and <a title="BR Innovators" href="http://www.brazilinnovators.com/" target="_blank">BR Innovators</a><a title="BRNewTech Geeks on a Place Special Edition" href="http://www.meetup.com/BRNewTech/events/17164046/"> BRNewTech Geeks on a Plane Special Edition</a> on May 1st, two events that mark a key point in the Brazilian entrepreneurship and startup ecosystem.</p>
<p>Geeks on Beer was an awesome informal meeting between selected entrepreneurs and investors from BR and abroad, mostly from USA/California, but also from Chile, Argentina, Germany and a few other countries.</p>
<p>Besides talking to some of the <a title="GOAP" href="http://http://geeksonaplane.com/">GOAP</a> and getting some good first hand insights(+ a mix of inspiration to work + envy, as we are still quite a few years behind in our startup environmnet), it was really nice to meet other entrepreneurs from Startup Weekend São Paulo, seeing how their projects evolved, and getting a glimpse of the ecosystem that Diego Remus(Startupi), Bedy Yang and the BRInnovators crew are nurturing in Brazil.</p>
<p>Seeing the interaction between foreign early stage funds and BR funds, I hope BR scene improves  at a very fast pace, and soon we have the equivalents(if not branches) of Ycombinator, 500Startups and Techstars in BR, not depending on Bootstrapping and gov grants only for seed stage – though both Aceleradora and Instituto Inovacao in a sense seem to start to fill those holes, at least re mentoring.</p>
<p>One interesting bit talking to the director of an accelerator, that matched my experience in 2010, was how potentially harmfull the process of chasing gov money(specially grants) could be to a startup – entrepreneurs too often spend a lot of time writing grant proposals instead of just building new features and testing them, not to mention waiting too long to start working on their ideas, as most BR grants get postponed at multiple times and for several months (take your pick from PRIME, RHAE or Subvencao for an example of this). Additionally, the very process of writing a big master plan for a product and following it for 1-3 years without significant changes(which is the very expectation of most grant programs ans grant contracts), is att odds with  leaner methodologies centered on customer development, which imply buiding/testing/killing features based on user feedback in much shorter  interations, potentially changing in a radical way the business model, etc.  Though subvention money is quite tempting(free money with no equity), nowadays I think one gotta think very carefully before putting the time and effort on the application process, as well as balancing the whole administrative overhead and rigidity associated to it against the net total(and sure, the probability of actually winning the grant). Perhaps diluting a little and getting private capital(specially if we are talking of smaller ammounts), might be sometimes a better strategy, specially considering the expertise an early stage investor might bring and the potential help securing larger rounds if all goes well.</p>
<p>Meeting several other foreign investors and entrepreneurs that were based not only in SP, but also in Rio, BR and Floripa, it became quite clear that BR entered the international radar as a promissing spot for startups. This reminded me of a recent experiment trying to hire a top intern, where we got more applications from the EU than from BR! Seems like what was a rather odd configuration at AI Engineers (at least here in POA) in its first years &#8211; having at times more clients and collaborators abroad than locally &#8211; is already becoming a natural setting for high tech startups in BR in general.</p>
<p>If you been at Geeks on Beer, I bet you&#8217;ll agree that we had a quite productive evening/night; if you haven&#8217;t, keep your radar on for (I hope) the next edition – you&#8217;ll surelly learn a lot, meet several interesting people and come back with some key insights for your business.</p>
<p>P.s.: Do not miss the <a title="Pics,videos et al from geeks on beer" href="http://startupi.com.br/2011/fotos-da-startuparty/">pics, videos and report on Geeks on Beer at Startupi</a> , thanks to D. Remus!</p>
<p>P.p.s.: And be sure to check ou the <a title="GOAP Attendee list" href="http://startupi.com.br/2011/mais-confirmados-na-startuparty-geeks-on-beer">GOAP attendee lis</a>t.</p>
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