<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>When I saw the message from Michael, I immediately also remembered that article sent by Dave. I've been seen a lot of things that relate to this article here (Brazil up-country). I thought this startup bubble had already popped out in other countries,
but here it seems to be just starting to gain mainstream media.<br><br></div>It seems we have two waves on our space: When we first open it, we received a lot of CS students interested in "computer security", do to the "hacker" part or the name "hackerspace". Most of them vanished in a few months, when they saw us building labs for electronics and hard tools. <br><br></div>Now we have a lot of people interested on the this "startup entrepreneurship ". The city is receiving a lot of events related to these. Almost every weekend there's a hackathon where you have the opportunity to work for free during straight 48 hours for a given corporation. Well, not exactly free, since you get a t-shirt. Then, the next day, we have new visitors on our meetings, looking for technical partners to implement their disruptive ideas, or something like that. <br> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Edward L Platt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ed@elplatt.com" target="_blank">ed@elplatt.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Would you like to be a hackerpreneur? For 10 easy payments of $13.37 you can get my 7-part guide: "Be Excellent... Profit!"<br><br>Kisses and arduinos,<div>-Ed</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:44 PM, michael howard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mik.howard@gmail.com" target="_blank">mik.howard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>mom and sister were discussing how "hacker" is related to "entrepreneur", asked me. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-09-21 17:20 GMT-03:00 hellekin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hellekin@dyne.org" target="_blank">hellekin@dyne.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 09/21/2015 04:50 PM, Lisha Sterling wrote:<br>
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> My favorite definition of Hacking is the one from St Jude. She said that<br>
> hacking is the clever circumvention of obstacles whether those be in our<br>
> (computer) systems, our ISPs, our governments or ourselves. I'd add that<br>
> those obstacles may be in our environment or our culture as well.<br>
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> - lisha<br>
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</span>Love it!<br>
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