tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67194002375269423502024-02-07T15:43:31.328-08:00Doce B ShopAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04619156613564044823noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719400237526942350.post-28776584092100521512014-01-17T12:33:00.000-08:002014-01-17T12:33:51.823-08:00Brazilian Cocoa<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vacation for us also means business. In search of the best
recipe, we need to have the best ingredients to achieve the most amazing taste of our
Brigadeiros. I, Danielle, Candy Rockstar at Doce B Shop, took advantage of my time in Bahia, Brazil and went
after the most amazing 100% natural cocoa that I could have </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ever find - I
couldn’t miss that opportunity.</span><br />
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<span class="hps">Itacaré,</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Bahia, Brazil is part of what it is called “Cocoa
Coast”. I had to take advantage of my time while there and look for the
opportunity to find the best key ingredient in order to make our handmade
Brazilian candy with a 100% organic Brazilian cocoa.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are the results of my search:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marly, known as the Cocoa Queen, buys the Cocoa
seeds from local farmers and does the rest of the process herself; Toast it,
peel it and makes things you would have never imagined could be made with cocoa:
jelly, honey, juice and different types of candies. Everything she sells in her
store is a 100% handmade production. The fact that it is old school and rustic,
is what makes it even better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Café Cacau” is a much
known Cocoa business in the region, they have good reviews on </span><a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g667504-d3916489-Reviews-Cafe_Cacau-Itacare_State_of_Bahia.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trip Adviser</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, plus
I found a lot of news in the internet about Marly and her amazing Cocoa
business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In one of the </span><a href="http://www.esperancaconduru.org/v1/2012/09/18/cafe-com-cacau-o-bom-sabor-da-bahia/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">articles</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
I found online, <span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Marly says
that she considers it a gift the fact that she was raised by her father on a
farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She learned how to preserve the
nature and take advantage of it. Beca, her father, used to gather his kids and
show them all the hard work the ants do, and then tell his kids that the humans
have to do the same in order to survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had the chance to talk to her and tell about our business
here in Michigan, she is a sweetheart and will be more than happy to do
business with us here at the Doce B Shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We know it is a long way for the toasted seeds to travel,
but Marly said they last up to one year. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Straight from Brazil</span></div>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Especially for you!<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 100% Brazilian organic cocoa will be used to make our
Special Edition Dark Chocolate Brigadeiro. We hope you enjoy it! <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04619156613564044823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719400237526942350.post-59377184189688983522013-12-22T11:49:00.000-08:002013-12-22T11:49:16.243-08:00Happy Holidays from Doce B Shop
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This Holiday we just want to thank all the amazing customers
for giving us the pleasure to bring smiles into their lives and also to their
relatives’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You made us feel special by giving us the business and the
trust. We hope you enjoy eating the Brigadeiros as much as we enjoyed making.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We hope you, your family and friends will enjoy the deliciousness
of the Brigadeiro and we are looking forward to be part of your life in 2014 as
well. Providing you, your family and friends more smiles. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With Love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Danielle and Marina</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04619156613564044823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719400237526942350.post-42421563686425119392013-11-27T15:30:00.000-08:002013-11-27T15:35:02.947-08:00Dinovember<div class="MsoNormal">
We had a feeling they were going to attack our kitchen too.
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T-Rex said they were just trying to help. Let’s see…</div>
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At least we know they washed their “hands” before touching
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It looks like they know what they are doing…</div>
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Yes, they knew what they were doing… Maybe we should
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holiday gift </span>and you want to give something special<span style="color: black;"> and affordable</span> for the Holidays, why not a Doce B
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your relatives, and it is always a pleasure when everybody is happy and smiling<span style="color: black;">! </span>Our Brigadeiros are guaranteed to make you and
everybody else in your party smile. It’s the perfect way to treat them this
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your family have a wonderful Holiday<span style="color: black;"> together!</span></span></div>
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Getting ready for the Walsh Entrepreneur fair hasn't been an
easy task, since me and Marina are both super busy. Me with work and school, and
Marina with work and her wedding plans. But at the same time it’s giving us a
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We had to have our flavors set, at least a good considerable
amount, to sample at the fair. Prices had to be set also, so we can collect
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Things are looking good so far - expect for the fact that
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Thanks to the <a href="http://www.walshcollege.edu/blackstonelaunchpad#.UoecA3BwpxE" target="_blank">Blackstone Launchpad</a> team for all the support
and for believing in our product. We hope to not let you guys down. It’s hard
to believe that this is happening and our product/company will get exposed to
over 200 people that we don’t know. HOW COOL IS THAT? <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></div>
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I wouldn't miss out on an opportunity to network, sample our
candies and see me giving out our Elevator Speech in public. Actually I do need
some support, since I hate public speaking. So please, GO! and cheer for me!!!!
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Name: check. Flavors: check, although we are still <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- </span>and
will be constantly working on bringing new flavors to our menu. Time to work on
the packaging; How do we want our product <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">presented</span>?
After doing some research on<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">-</span>line
to find suppliers of gift boxes we finally came up with some suggestions<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">. We </span>are going to collect feedback from
customers in order to decide which ones we will <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">try out</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We are considering having <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">two </span>selections:
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This last one is a second option for the gift category,
which we will decide after getting some feedback,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>either this one or the one with the lace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04619156613564044823noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719400237526942350.post-17383612301088917312013-11-04T10:00:00.000-08:002013-11-05T08:45:55.077-08:00Flavor Ideas<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the name was chosen, Doce
Brigadeiro, we decided to work on the Brigadeiro flavors we would like to
offer. Even though it is a Brazilian candy our target market are the North
Americans. We have to make sure we will fulfill their needs and won’t be doing
anything too different from what they love, but still <span style="font-size: small;">include some of the traditional Brazilian favorites
as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Me and Marina spent a few
weeks talking about it, between meetings and in cooking/baking sessions we came
up with all these flavors to start up our menu. In the long-run we will
probably be taking some out and adding others in depending on sales. It
will be all about the customer preference!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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bottom right: The Traditional Brazilian with chocolate sprinkles, peanuts,
peppermint, pistachio, almonds, dark chocolate, strawberry flavor with
sprinkles, strawberry flavor with sugar, roast coconut, coconut, mix coconut,
dried cranberry with Cajun, white
chocolate with rainbow sprinkles, s'mores, and chocolate mint.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After deciding the flavors we then decided to name them -
but not a random name. It had to be a name that would have a </span><i>meaning</i><span style="font-size: small;"> behind it. Therefore we decided to
give them names that were related to the most beautiful beaches in Brazil! However, they are hard names to pronounce - but
they have a meaning and we hope our customers like it, if not, we will change
it! Do you have an opinion about that? Check it out the name on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/docebshop" target="_blank">facebook</a>
page. </span>Guess which flavor is my favorite?!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04619156613564044823noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719400237526942350.post-26371959782262438182013-10-28T14:31:00.000-07:002013-10-28T14:37:15.559-07:00The name and logo choice!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">The business idea was done, so now we needed a name. That sounds like the easy part! I already had a name
picked out: “Sweet B”, but on our first meeting with Blackstone Launchpad they suggested we do some
research on names to see what was out there
first. Turned out that the name “Sweet B” was already taken, so we had to come
up with another name – how disappointing! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Broken hearted, we did some
brainstorming with the team but nothing was as satisfying
to us as the name “Sweet B”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to get
over that name and accept the fact that I had to have another name for the
business. “Yummy B”, “Yum B”, “Bite B”, “Sweet Bite”, and some other names came
in mind but not catchy enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">finally</i> came up
with the name “Doce Brigadeiro” !! In order
to use "Doce B"
to facilitate the pronunciation for the English
speaking customers, and then since the business plan includes having a
shop in the long-run with coffee and some other Brazilian goodies, we added "Shop"to it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">The name was finally picked out, now we had to have a logo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something
that would somehow represent Brazil with the colors green and yellow and also
give the customers the impression that it was food related.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">I am the type of person that doesn’t sleep very well when I
have too much going on or am too excited about something. So guess what
happened? A couple sleepless nights, waking up
in the middle of the night with ideas. So I left a paper and pen on my nightstand so I could write it down and/or
draw whatever I had in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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program for this project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She came up
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I liked it - but she still wanted to work on it more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Obviously there were still room for improvement. </span>So
she kept working on it, and came up with the ones we will be using today. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Tcharam!!! Here are they!!!</em></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi everyone! This is Marina Lauand writing, I am Danny’s
partner . Born and raised in Brazil, 28 years old, with a dream that is about
to come true!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since we have already started to tell you our story, I am
also going to talk about my journey in the United States and how our friendship
and later on, our partnership started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As many other Brazilians I came to the US in 2010 for the Au
Pair Program. <span style="line-height: 115%;"> I
lived in Connecticut for one year and within that year I met a special man that
would later become my husband. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">After
my au pair year was over, we decided to continue with a hard overseas long
distance relationship, until I finally moved in to the United States
permanently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During one return visit to the lovely State of Michigan, I
met Danny through a North American friend, who is one of my husband’s best
friend. Believe it or not, she was the
first Brazilian I met, and that was a big
deal for me since I was pretty
lonely and missing my friends from home. As good traditional Brazilians we knew
without asking each other that we had something in common: we both love and know
how to make the delicious “little chocolate balls” known as <i>Brigadeiro.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though we lived 45 minutes away, our friendship grew
closer as time went by. The idea of opening a <i>Brigadeiro </i>business crossed my mind many times before I met Danny, but I've never had enough encouragement to do something like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day, in one of our conversations, Danny said she dreamed
about starting to make B<i>rigadeiros</i> to
sell here and opening a business. Those lines sounded like a great idea to me! We
figured out that every person that has tried out the traditional B<i>rigadeiros</i> love them and want more and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the candy is a ‘must have’ in the birthday parties in
Brazil, we asked ourselves; why not make it a ‘must have’ in events here as
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s when the idea became serious and we decided to put
our efforts in making it happen. So that
is where we are in our journey right now. We are feeling very positive and excited
about and see it as another bright spot in our future!<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6719400237526942350" name="_GoBack"></a></span></div>
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Before that, let me introduce myself. My name is <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=116965033&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile" target="_blank">Danielle Cecconi</a>, I am 26 years old, born and raised in Brazil. The country of the
deliciousness called Brigadeiro. I came to Michigan to get my Master degree in
Management in Marketing at Walsh College and started working with <a href="http://www.walshcollege.edu/blackstonelaunchpad" target="_blank">BlackstoneLaunchpad</a> in June, 2013 in order to open my business: Doce B Brigadeiro LLC. </div>
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Brigadeiro it’s been part of my life, and it was a “must
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Here is a
picture of my 7<sup>th</sup> Bday with my brother’s 9<sup>th</sup>, he is the
silly one holding the balls. That’s the cake table, where we would get together
to sing happy bday and that’s where usually the Brigadeiros were set.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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older I would help my mom make them, and it would be the highlight of my day
because I always got to eat a few prior to the party. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></div>
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Long story short, I became a professional Brigadeiro maker!
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So when I first came to Michigan and noticed that Brigadeiro
wasn’t known here, I <i>had</i> to make it
and share with people. The more I started to meet Americans and other
international people, the more Brigadeiro I<i>
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I got really involved with school and the <a href="http://www.walshcollege.edu/ISO" target="_blank">International Student Organization</a> there, so I decided to offer to bring my “Brazilian candy”
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the Focus Hope Walk 2012, I made little Brazilian flags as a “business card”,
and that’s when the business idea was born. Due to everybody’s feedback I
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<i>Here is when I made
the candies for the International Day at Walsh College this year. At that point
I was focusing on getting feedback from people, the more I had, the better. And
I got 100% approval!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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So as a 26 years old woman that is getting her master degree
and has an entrepreneur mind, I saw a business opportunity coming together. I
then had the opportunity to meet my Brazilian friend and partner Marina Lauanda.
We got signed up at Blackstone Launchpad
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