Nothing breeds copycats like a successful business venture. When a new business idea is incubated and executed successfully, cloners naturally emerge and imitate. To mitigate the investing risks associated with eroding market opportunities due to copycats, investors always look for companies with strong competitive resilience or those that are operating in markets with a high barrier to entry. 
No próximo dia 31 de maio, o Salão Nobre da Câmara Municipal da Póvoa de Varzim acolhe o seminário “Incubação e Empreendedorismo – como criar uma empresa”. O evento, organizado pela ANJE em colaboração com a autarquia, surge na sequência da recente inauguração do Centro de Incubação da Póvoa de Varzim e tem por objetivo fornecer informações úteis à criação de um negócio próprio, concedendo particular atenção aos apoios infraestruturais. 
Hire for passion and commitment first, experience second, and credentials third. You don’t want to be simply a stepping stone on an employee’s journey toward their own passion. 
Naturally, entrepreneurs have an innate urge to want to tackle every part of every project themselves, but by trying to do so they can get tied up in tasks that limit their productivity and creativity. Especially when it comes to technical matters, outsourcing some of the work may not only be the best thing for the business owner, but it can also be the best thing for the business. Via Didier Roggeri 
Microsoft is hosting 11 startups for a 13-week accelerator program to build apps for Kinect for Windows, a version of the Xbox device designed for PCs, Bloomberg.com reports. In order for Kinect to play a central role in the future of computing, the story explains, Microsoft needs startups to build applications that make gesture-based controls and 3-D scanning important to non-gamers. 
Estão abertas, até 31 de Maio, as candidaturas para a 3.ª edição do Building Global Innovators, uma das iniciativas de referência a nível internacional do empreendedorismo de base tecnológica. O Programa promovido pelo ISCTE - IUL de Lisboa, em parceria com o MIT Portugal, o Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation e a Caixa Capital, pretende criar, a partir de Portugal, os alicerces de um centro internacional de competências nesta área. 
A business model can make or break a business -- having a solid business plan directs profits and investments. This article about influential business models. Henry Ford, famous for using the assembly line in his car factories, neither founded the world's first car company nor invented the assembly line. Borrowing an idea originally used in the meat-packing industries, Ford was able to go after a new market in his industry to great success. 
Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. 
Ever thought bout building an e-commerce store or affiliate site? Make sure you put thought into these five crucial aspects of running that business. Via Martin (Marty) Smith 
Headhunters in Lisbon are currently lining up highly skilled Portuguese workers for good paying jobs in Angola, an African country currently experiencing enviable growth.
A Fundação Everis lançou a convocatória para a entrega de projetos inovadores, no âmbito da XI edição do concurso fundação everis – Prémio Empreendedores 2012. 
One of the most frequent questions I get asked goes something like this: “I have a really great idea, but (name of big company or university) has a patent on that. What do I do?
Android has a monetization problem. According to a report from Flurry, for every dollar of iOS revenue, developers only get 24 cents from Android. Peter Farago, VP of Marketing at Flurry, exposes his thoughts on the mobile platform wars - Flurry is a mobile analytics company and so has a pretty good vantage point on trends and developments in the app ecosystem. |
A medida "Estímulo 2012" é uma iniciativa do Governo que pretende comparticipar até 419,22 euros o salário de desempregados que sejam contratados pelas empresas. Será concedido um apoio financeiro que oscilará entre 50% a 60% do salário dos cidadãos que sejam contratados pelas empresas e que estejam sem trabalhar há pelo menos seis meses. 
O mais antigo galardão de empreendedorismo em Portugal prepara-se para apoiar e promover um novo projeto empresarial. As candidaturas ao Prémio do Jovem Empreendedor decorrem até 30 de junho, pelo que a ANJE está já em busca da startup sucessora da Medbone, empresa de substitutos ósseos que foi distinguida na edição anterior. O valor global do prémio a atribuir é agora de 30 mil euros. 
Os europeus estão cada vez mais abertos para o empreendedorismo. A atitude positiva que os Europeus têm demonstrado em relação à criação do seu próprio emprego é uma das muitas conclusões de um estudo da Amway. 
Beta-start helps entrepreneurs accelerate their ideas. So, do you have an idea? Do you want to transform it into a business? Don’t know where to start? Beta-start is an innovative program from Beta-i to help you turn your ideas into a viable business. Through the one month program Beta-i will coach you to present your idea to potential customers and to over 30 potential investors.
From May 5th to June 8th. 
Tips for Marketing Your Start-up. The virtual world completely changed the way we conduct business and way we plan marketing strategies and implement them. The beauty of the virtual world is that you get product visibility for a very low price. 
Os centros comerciais Dolce Vita, através do projecto Business Care, estão a criar uma bolsa de empreendedores para franchising. O objectivo é apoiar a expansão das marcas que se queiram associar abrindo unidades nos seus centros comerciais. 
In the last two years the proliferation of social media in tourism has brought a range of new tools and platforms for tourism and hospitality organisations around the world. Via Alexandre Pinto 
Crowdsourcing has developed some very interesting figures and statistics. For instance, thousands of creative people have been paid $1-2 billion in crowdsourcing projects so far. Via Fábrica de Startups 
In the days before social media and the Internet, it wasn't as easy to listen in on your customers’ conversations about your company. Nor could you easily encourage people to spread the good word about your business through word-of-mouth. Use these tips to increase repeat sales by keeping your customers and clients connected to your business.
Talk about launching a new venture these days, and chances are someone will likely mention the principles of the lean start-up. A significant portion of Silicon Valley and the start-up community in general have wholeheartedly embraced them. The idea in a nutshell: The path to start-up success involves launching a minimum viable product, testing it, learning from it, and reworking it accordingly. It sounds straight forward enough. But there are some deep flaws in this approach. As trendy and popular as "lean" is these days, launching lean can be a really, really bad idea. 
A notícia foi anunciada em pleno bootcamp do Energia de Portugal e apanhou de surpresa os 200 participantes. Martim Avillez Figueiredo, publisher do Grupo Impresa, surpreendeu os 200 participantes do 4.º bootcamp ao anunciar que conseguiu reunir um grupo de investidores dispostos a investir 50 milhões de euros nos projectos que estão a ser desenvolvidos no Energia de Portugal. A video where several foreign young entrepreneurs explain why they decided to start their business in Lisbon was recently published by Invest Lisboa, a partnership between the Lisbon Municipality, the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Portuguese Business Development Agency. |
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