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Ed. Note: We just announced the opening of our offices in São Paulo, Brazil. Here’s a welcome post from Osvaldo Barbosa de Oliveira, country manager of LinkedIn Brazil to our Portuguese speaking members.

É com muito orgulho que venho anunciar o lançamento do primeiro escritório do LinkedIn na América Latina, em São Paulo, Brasil. E o momento não poderia ser melhor, afinal, acabamos de ultrapassar a marca dos 6 milhões de usuários no país.

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Another month, another post from our Life at LinkedIn series. This post by Martin from our Chicago office, pulls together Movember moments from our different offices. Movember aims to raise awareness around men’s health, specifically cancers that affect men. 

It all started with a question to my manager.
“Scott, What is LinkedIn’s stance on mustaches?”
And his response,
“I would think LinkedIn feels quite positively about mustaches.”
“Good..”

Once a month, we set aside a Friday for employees to focus on investing in themselves and their community. It’s a day to spend time outside their daily task list. The theme for November’s InDay was Culture. Check out other InDay posts here. – Ed.

We kicked off the day with our first cultural Top Chef competition. For the first round, ten fearless competitors created a dish related to their secret ingredient which was the culture from which they culled the recipe for their dish.  They were randomly assigned either Italian, Spanish, German, Brazilian, or Japanese as their culture and had 48 hours to prepare a dish.

If you believe the writers of the No. 3 story this week – The Three Types of People to Fire Immediately – the writer of the No. 5 story should be fired. Immediately.

In his entertaining essay, 10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn in College, investor and author James Altucher violates all of the rules of good corporate behavior. He says that college is a waste of money, which teaches neither technical nor life skills (“nonbeliever” – strike one); complains of being betrayed by girlfriends, business partners, even his own psyche (“victim” – strike two); and declaims on everything from what makes for good writing to why students get A’s in business school (“know-it-all” – strike three). But his main point is that everything he learned in business and investing came no thanks to 5 years and $100,000 in university payments.