Portugal has one of the most dynamic ecosystems for startups in the world, and it continues to attract startups from every part of the world. Startup Portugal being a non-profit organization, aims to support the Portuguese Government in the design and implementation of the National Strategy for Entrepreneurship. Francisca Sampaio, Program Manager do One Stop…
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The long-awaited Productive Innovation´s notice of the Portugal 2030 program was finally published. It aims to stimulate business investment of an innovative nature, promoting a change in the specialization profile of the Portuguese economy and strengthening its external competitiveness through differentiation and innovation. Through this incentive, with support of up to 75% of investment, it…
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Culture plays a key role in business. Each country has its own norms, habits and rules. When establishing contact with foreign companies it is important to study these differences and understand their etiquette or protocol in order to be successful in the international market. During the week we had Marina Malhão-Pereira, secretary-general of the Association…
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Local culture and language are important to succeed in any international market. Businesses need to understand the local culture and language to shape their products and services and their marketing strategies. Each country and each culture has its own norms, customs and values, and it is important that startups understand and respect these cultural differences in…
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Last week we introduced to you our new Immersion Programs. The Venture Builder has created programs to make the whole internationalization process simpler and more practical through what we have called Immersion Softlanding. As we discovered last week, entering new markets is always a new challenge. Many use a political, economic, social and technological…
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The new Startups law in Portugal was approved by the Portuguese government at the end of March and promises to bring changes to the entrepreneurship ecosystem. However, what exactly does this law 56 consist of? The diploma proceeds by legally defining the concepts of startup and scaleup, followed by the amendment to the Personal Income…
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Empreende XXI is one of the programs created by IEFP, Institute of Employment and Professional Training, a national public employment service, whose mission is to promote the creation and quality of employment and combat unemployment, through the implementation of active employment and professional training policies. The Empreende XXI program is aimed at the creation and…
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Entering in new markets represents, for most of the startups (or companies alike), a completely new and, therefore, unknown world. Each new market is a new political, economic, social, technological, environmental and competitive context. Each new market brings with it new customers and new consumers, always with different habits from those we know in your…
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Portugal 2030 is a program that puts into practice the Partnership Agreement between Portugal and the European Commission, which sets the application of European Funds in the development of the Portuguese economy until the end of the decade. The program will be implemented around five strategic objectives, specifically: a smarter, greener, more connected, more social…
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It is recognized, even internationally, that Portugal is experiencing an exciting moment in everything related to entrepreneurship and the startup movement. WebSummit brought visibility to our ecosystem. So much so that there is a before WebSummit and a after WebSummit. Portugal has defined a strategy to position itself as a Startup Nation. The Government elected…
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