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Thanks for visiting my website. This blog is a mix of personal info, projects I've been working on, and news from the related industries (travel, web analytics and Montreal startups).

Be sure to check out my three sites!

Montreal NewTech Meetup Group YowTRIP I-Stats
Startup networking event in Montreal.
www.mtlnewtech.com
Social media platform for world travelers.
www.yowtrip.com
Real-time web analytics application.
www.i-stats.com
about this blog
Welcome to my world. My name is Felipe Coimbra and I am a serial entrepreneur. Everything I do, everywhere I go, and everything I see I try to make it into a business. This is what I am, this is what I do, and this is my blog.

Phone: 1.334.740.0424
Email: felipe(at)felipecoimbra(dot)com
Current location: Montreal, Canada
Travel: www.yowtrip.com/felipe
Kiva: www.kiva.org/lender/felipe9958

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Crowded market? (Part 1)

18 11 2008

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I listed below some (most) of the travel sites available today.
If you look at this list and you think this is a crowded market, you clearly have no idea about most of the sites below nor about the size of the travel industry.
So, time permitting, I’m going to try to educate you in the next [...]

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Thoughts about StartupEmpire

15 11 2008

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Toronto is one of my favorite cities in North America, so when I heard about StartupEmpire, I was very tempted to go over there… I was one of the winners of the StartupEmpire contest by Flow Consulting, so that made it for me.
I left on Wednesday morning, so I’d have some time to walk around. [...]

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Nominate YowTRIP for an Open Web Award!

6 11 2008

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Mashable Open Web Awards

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What’s new in the Travel 2.0 space…

29 10 2008

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The travel 2.0 companies continue to innovate. Of course, the travel industry is a multi-billion dollars industry and EVERYBODY travels (business, leisure, or a combination of the two) … and most people LOVE to travel. So it’s great when new companies come up with solutions to make our travel lives easier or more efficient.
Today, I got [...]

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Another visit to the city

28 10 2008

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Yesterday I went back to San Francisco to meet Ian and Scott from Travellr, an Australian travel startup that came to pitch at the Plug and Play Expo. We exchanged ideas, talked about potential partnerships and then went for a little driving tour in the city.
We went to this park with a famous view of [...]

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From Union Square…

22 10 2008

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I’m now sitting at Union Square in SF… Leaving to go back to San Jose here soon… So, Plug and Play Expo went very well yesterday. I practiced my 2 minutes pitch with Pranay using a lot of the tips from the day before, and I think I got it down pretty good.

So, in the [...]

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Update from the Bay Area

21 10 2008

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Today, I went to the Boot Camp for Canadian Startups, organized by the Consulate of Canada, at the Hilton Santa Clara. We had a very informative session about what the Silicon Valley investors are looking for on a pitch. So, in the afternoon we got to pitch our startups to a panel of 3 investors [...]

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Leaving to California in a few hours update

18 10 2008

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I’ve been so busy lately and sleeping on crazy schedules… that I didn’t even have time to post anything about my trip to California. Well, I have a 6am flight tomorrow to SFO. I joined a Canadian startups delegation to an investor workshop and Plug and Play Expo, on Monday and Tuesday.
I’m going to stay [...]

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We’ll be back soon…

13 10 2008

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In the past couple of weeks we had some hiccups, so I started looking at a better server for my sites. I’m now updating the server, so you might get the following message, depending on how long it takes for the DNS changes to propagate to where you are…

My deadline for alpha release was yesterday… [...]

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YowTRIP won’t have you travelling alone

5 10 2008

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Check out this article about me from the Sun Startup Essentials (Canada) Blog.

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YowTRIP
Social media platform for world travelers.
www.yowtrip.com

I-Stats
Real-time web analytics application.
www.i-stats.com

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