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A Brazilian Federal Law is Voted and Approved

October 6, 2024

Thanks to the efforts of ACSJOVEM and other young Brazilian trade associations, a law ensuring all Brazilian invoices must contain its tax amount passed and was approved by the Brazilian President. Collecting signatures was fundamental to make the law project get voted in the Brazilian House and Brazilian Senate. However, the approval relied on the […]

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Souza’s Original Works

October 4, 2024

Velaqua’s proposal was original and inspired users and contenders around the globe. FAPESP To fund the applied research project, Souza applied for and was awarded by the FAPESP – A major and most competitive Brazilian Research agency – a level of award that was only granted to PhD-level professionals at that time. Consequently, Souza requested […]

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Tuilux Received Series A funding from Astella

October 4, 2024

Tuilux, a Brazilian company founded in 2009 and based in Santos, became a key player in the social TV space by leveraging big data and artificial intelligence to analyze audience engagement on social media. Founded by CEO Helder Knidel and renowned AI scientist Dr. Leandro Nunes de Castro Alves, Tuilux brought in Humberto Ribeiro de […]

Brazilian Marathon Swimmers with Outstanding Results

October 4, 2024

The following swimmers are multi World Champions in Marathon Swimming, both in global competitions and Olympics. In Brazil, they trained and competed for Universidade Santa Cecilia, known as UNISANTA, where the project was developed in association with Souza’s IT&D. According to the Wikipedia (2024), Brazil is ahead of most countries when it comes to Marathon […]

Facing the stock option market – Pricing

January 17, 2016

The stock options pricing method may sounds weird, but it has some reasonable rules to following order to accomplish this task. The general function related to the stock option price formation is: P = p(X,T,S,V) Where: P – Price or premium. Similar to insurance market concept X – Strike price. The less the X value, […]

Facing the stock markets – Stock Options

January 17, 2016

The Brazilian stock options market   The main characteristic of the Brazilian stock options market is that just some papers are liquid enough to make it possible the using of some of techniques we usually lay hold. The stocks that have liquid options are PETR4, VALE5, ITUB4, CIEL3 and few others from banking sector. A […]

About Development and Regional Markets

March 13, 2015

During the 2002-2012 years, we faced a very regulated and closed market in Brazil. Ok, and how it affects development and freedom? Its about economics. I understand economics as a science of shortage. In many ways, specialists say that we do need to prepare ourselves to a different world, not necessarily of shortage, but related […]

Brazil and its challenges

February 12, 2013

On last Monday, 2/11/2013, 4 people died in Santos – SP – Brazil, pushing a carnival float. Many people wrote that he was sad, and that was a fatality. Do not just stay sad! There were 4 people so far. And the press offices of duty to try to push public opinion that the speech […]

Making the difference through Project Management

February 5, 2012

After a few years working on small businesses in Brazil, I had the opportunity of being part of medium-sized and take part in international projects. I experienced good and challenging situations in analyst and project manager functions. I had the luck to work beside seasoned people on their subject matters. On the other hand, I […]

Life decision: Improve people’s lives

September 4, 2011

Last week, I decided on a number of things. So I had the same thinking about the people around me. This text revolves around my personal life and project management techniques. Personal life I lived with my two other brothers in Santos, Sao Paulo, in an apartment ceded by my father. This was somewhat a […]