I have indeed considered Brazil. I have worked with companies there in the past, I love the country and its people… and I even speak some Portuguese. The problem is that I’m moving to join my girlfriend in the US and she’s already there, so I’m not really able to change country that easy!

Foreigners Follow Money to Booming Brazil
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/world/americas/13brazil.html

What caught my attention was Seth Zalkin’s response
“If the rest of the world is cratering, this is a good place to be,”

The problem with the article is that it does not show how Zalkin is following the puck, just moving to where the money is, is just one of a myriad of angles to consider.  If the real estate slogan was “location, location, location” yesterday, today it is “glocal, glocal, glocal”.

The problem with the “puck” analogy, no two moves are ever the same, but it is the idea that greater amounts of research or upfront project management generally yield greater results over the long-term.  This is also true of product development, where product design that involves everyone in the value stream upfront can identify upstream problems before those problems are hardwired into the product, and reveal themselves as the consumer finds them.

In a way, Wayne Gretzky was at the right place at the right time, if you see what assembled and came together with the Edmonton Oilers.  Life sometimes has a way of gathering which has a life of it’s own, I think the people who have responded to your prior to me showing up, do have that “something is happening here” feel to them and look like people who can follow the puck, so it looks like you are in good company.

Regards
[$M.]

“Rupy Yuan” @thoughtspaces 

Of course if you are in NYC, we need to get together.

Good luck with this.