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33 pointsHerberthAmaral14y ago7 comments

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Buscapé is far away from being a startup these days. The founder sold the company a few years ago to Naspers a south african media company.

EDIT: not a few months, a few years.

lumisura14y ago

Yup, I was very surprised they are on this list. Hot startup missing: Peixe Urbano. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/06/brazils-peixe-urbano-takes-...

lzm14y ago

> Another interesting factoid about Peixe Urbano: They’ve imported a dozen American engineers, product managers and designers.

Oh, wow. Are we (Brazilian engineers) that inferior to the American ones?

Peixe Urbano is one of the few well-designed websites in Brazil, I'm sad that it wasn't made by us.

postit14y ago

I miss boo-box too http://boo-box.com/

HerberthAmaralOP14y ago

Not only Buscapé, but PagosOnline too.

tropin14y ago

I only knew Smowtion because I use them in a couple of blogs. It's an ad network about one or two orders of magnitude worse in earnings than Adsense, as usual.

EDIT: Not their fault, of course. It's as good as it gets, talking about ad networks besides Adsense.

armandososa14y ago

Why edit the title? Now seems like these are the only Latina American Startups

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7 comments

postit14y ago

Buscapé is far away from being a startup these days. The founder sold the company a few years ago to Naspers a south african media company.

EDIT: not a few months, a few years.

lumisura14y ago

Yup, I was very surprised they are on this list. Hot startup missing: Peixe Urbano. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/06/brazils-peixe-urbano-takes-...

lzm14y ago

> Another interesting factoid about Peixe Urbano: They’ve imported a dozen American engineers, product managers and designers.

Oh, wow. Are we (Brazilian engineers) that inferior to the American ones?

Peixe Urbano is one of the few well-designed websites in Brazil, I'm sad that it wasn't made by us.

postit14y ago

I miss boo-box too http://boo-box.com/

HerberthAmaralOP14y ago

Not only Buscapé, but PagosOnline too.

tropin14y ago

I only knew Smowtion because I use them in a couple of blogs. It's an ad network about one or two orders of magnitude worse in earnings than Adsense, as usual.

EDIT: Not their fault, of course. It's as good as it gets, talking about ad networks besides Adsense.

armandososa14y ago

Why edit the title? Now seems like these are the only Latina American Startups

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