Innovation and Commercialization I gave several talks in Brazil on innovation, university commercialization, and venture investing. I have some thoughts on this that I'm going to document at length a bit later. … [Read more...]

Network Connectivity 3G connections were ubiquitous (well, except in the mountains north of Pirenópolis, but that's unreasonable). … [Read more...]

Brasilia is an unusual city. It was planned from scratch to be the new capital of Brazil (replacing Rio de Janeiro, which had filled that role since 1763). Brasilia was built in a whirlwind of activity, starting in 1956, and was inaugurated as the capital in 1960. I'm embarrassed to note … [Read more...]

As in my China notes, I'll simply show some photographs without comment here. It's a beautiful country. If you like what you see here, don't miss the whole gallery at http://photos.stephenandcissa.com/Travel/Brazil2010. Click on any image here to embiggen; on the resulting page, click "X3" or "O" (Original) to embiggen even more! … [Read more...]