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Growth, Startups & Strategy

Growing is easy to say and hard to sustain. Articles on strategy, scale and the bottlenecks that truly stall growth.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Jun 5, 2026

What I learned doing business in Portugal

I just spent an intense month in Portugal, leading the internationalization of a Brazilian technology company on European soil. It was not a tourism trip.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy May 11, 2026

When the founder's boldness becomes the real bottleneck

I have seen many business owners saying their company has control and that they know exactly what is happening.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Sep 17, 2025

Your company may have a Purpose, but no defined Destination.

The difference between business purpose and destination is crucial. Purpose represents current operations; destination defines the future and the value of your company tomorrow.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Jan 3, 2024

Fourth Companion of Failure: Lack of Scarcity

Resource scarcity drives innovation in ancient civilizations and modern startups, while excessive abundance can generate complacency that is harmful to creativity.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Nov 26, 2023

Second Companion of Failure: Brilliant Ideas That Never Take Off

Innovative ideas without a real market are a companion of failure. The article explores why many brilliant creations never take off and how to validate demand before investing.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Nov 24, 2023

First Companion of Failure: The Lack of Specialty Diversity.

I decided to address what I call the 4 Companions of Startup Failure. They always travel together, and have caused great damage in the market.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Apr 5, 2023

Growth Ecosystem

The Growth methodology, based on constant testing and experimentation, allows companies like Uber and WhatsApp to grow exponentially through customer acquisition, retention, and monetization.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Mar 13, 2023

Startup or Shutdown

In recent years, we have witnessed a true "boom" of companies called startups, which promise to revolutionize the market and grow rapidly.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Feb 9, 2023

Is it possible to improve email marketing campaign results?

Email marketing offers high ROI, but many professionals fail to extract the best results due to lack of awareness of basic details that are essential for the channel's effectiveness.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Nov 4, 2022

An industry that goes beyond entertainment.

The entertainment industry creates differentiated experiences through innovation and technology, and brands approach it via Live Marketing to connect with audiences during leisure moments.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Nov 4, 2022

Iceberg Ahead for Digital Agencies

Brazilian digital agencies face competitiveness challenges due to an unsustainable business model based on media commissions inherited from traditional agencies.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Nov 4, 2022

Software as an agency

Panel at SXSW 2016 on how agencies can learn from software companies, adopting reuse and productization to deliver with more speed and value.

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Growth, Startups & Strategy Dec 18, 2023

Third Companion of Failure: Cash Burn versus Growth

Startups need to balance growth with solid financial management; burning cash without a strategic plan, ignoring the Rule of 40, is a direct route to failure.

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