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Condor Connect puts startups on the supermarket floor
A Curitiba accelerator turns a supermarket group into a testing ground for young companies. Its most useful offer may be the chance to win a paying customer.
HIPE built a supermarket where retail ideas face the checkout
In Curitiba, HIPE Innovation Center brings startups, retailers and technology suppliers into the same orbit. Its most revealing experiment is a working supermarket designed to test an idea before a retailer bets a store on it.
Daniel Scandian and the race to build a hundred-year company
A Formula 3 Light champion helped turn the remains of his family’s flooring business into MadeiraMadeira. Now Daniel Scandian is working on a different measure of success: a company that outlasts its founders.
João Del Valle and the art of getting through
He wrote EBANX’s first code, became its CEO, and found his way back to GitHub. For João Del Valle, global commerce still comes down to a local question: can this person actually pay?