BRIC

10 Trends That Will Shape Our Global Small Business World In 2010

  1. Globally integrated future - better known as cheap, quick and global.
  2. World power.
  3. Technologically enabled future.
  4. China Ltd.
  5. Thick as a BRIC.
  6. The Young and the Restless: The Radical Global Entrepreneur.
  7. Come-out-of-nowhere theory.
  8. The Age of Online Factory Direct (OFD).
  9. Global Small Business Heroes.
  10. Borderless venture capital (BVC).

Brazilian economy is suffering less than others

International investments into Brazil reached a level of over $ 45 billion in 2008, an all time record. Even last December, at the peak of the crisis, Brazil received more than U$ 8 billion, almost 10 times more than a year before. In Brazil ROIs in almost all sectors have been higher year after year than in traditional markets.