Empreendedores Brasileiros são destaques

Na The Economist de 2 de agosto de 2008, numa reportagem sobre empreendedores (Entrepreneurship: Spreading the gospel, Number 950) o destaque para o Brasil. O texto começa com o caso da rede Spoleto:

EARLIER this year Mario Chady faced a crucial decision. Having built up Spoleto, his chain of casual Italian restaurants, to 150 outlets in Brazil, and opened in Mexico and Spain, the time had come for Mr Chady, based in Rio de Janeiro, to choose between expanding into America or putting the idea on hold for at least 18 months. To help make up his mind, he asked for help from an organisation called Endeavor, which had chosen him as a potential "high-impact entrepreneur" in 2003.

Endeavor is a non-profit group based in New York dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship in emerging economies. It had already supplied three teams of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help Mr Chady craft a strategy for America. But as he spoke to members of the Endeavor network, ranging from leading Brazilian business tycoons to fellow up-and-coming entrepreneurs, he became convinced that it was the right strategy but the wrong time. Mr Chady decided to concentrate on expanding even faster in Brazil, and leave America for later. "The US economy is not at a very good stage, whereas Brazil is very hot now. Endeavor helped me see this," he says.