[marcosdumay]

Yet, brazilians have little money to spend, and are amost completely unable to invest (because of too hight cost of life, insecurity, and a thousand other factors).

It's quite hard to get sucessful selling for people that can't buy.

[ffreitasalves]

I am sorry, but I think brazilians buys things all the time, even the poor ones. They can buy term.

It is not the reason for startups complaints, I think the scenario is chaotic because they don't have money/mentoring adequate for early stage startups. That is the reason they are always looking for some copy cats.

Another problem is the culture. People are not used to buy things online, but it is changing

[marcosdumay]

Yes, we buy things all the time, even the poor ones.

What poor people don't have is a discritionary budget, they could use to buy stuff that a software startup is tipically able to sell.

And related, Brazil is quite big, so you can grow a company to a huge size only selling to the few richer brazilians. That's just much harder to accomplish than doing the same at a country like the US. That means that the normally 1 in 100 (or is it smaller) odds for a startup there will reduce a few orders of magnitude here.