Deanna Bennett and Brett Yates, solving simple real-world problem leads to RentMonitor
Like many new ventures, RentMonitor was founded to solve a real problem. Deanna Bennett, who worked in property management, wanted to pay her rent online. And she wanted to communicate online to her landlord. She knew from her...
More Thoughts on Portugal, Raymond Vennare, entrepreneur
I have always believed, if not intuitively understood, that entrepreneurship is fundamentally personal; that it takes human vision, intention and work to discover, innovate and turn an idea into a business. This is not a novel...
Tiago Costa found a way with WayNext
Somewhat different from my other posts about Portugal and entrepreneurship that feature raw startups is Tiago Costa and his digital marketing agency, WayNext. Founded in 2002, WayNext is the brainchild of three colleagues who...
Vera Moura, bombing cancer tumors with Treat U
31-year old Vera Moura knows that chemotherapy is a necessary evil. You need the chemicals to kill the tumors, but, unfortunately, those chemicals also create collateral damage. What if you could bomb only the targeted tumor...
Entrepreneurial current events
A few articles have grabbed my attention recently. One relates to the fact that recessions or economic downtimes are sometimes the best time to start new businesses. Time reported this week on the Kauffman Index of...
Mário Zenha-Rela and Dognædis – computer science prof turns to entrepreneurship
Solving some of the world’s great online security problems wasn’t enough for researcher and computer science professor, Mário Zenha-Rela, from the University of Coimbra in Portugal. He wanted to take his research out into the...
Rising star Portuguese entrepreneur, Sérgio Santos, is organizing the web with Bundlr
Who are the young, up-and-coming entrepreneurs of Portugal who will help lift the country from its economic woes? Meet 23-year old Sérgio Santos, co-founder of Bundlr. The company’s bundling software organizes web content about...
Thoughts on Portugal and entrepreneurship: trying to find their way out of the mess through new venture creation
Most people don’t put the words “Portugal” and “entrepreneurship” in the same sentence. And most folks from the US don’t know much about Portugal; most haven’t visited. Quick facts about Portugal Total area: 35,645 sq mi...
Nathan Martin: the Artist inside the Entrepreneur, Deeplocal
Nathan Martin never intended to be a technology entrepreneur. He was an artist, through and through, first as a punk rocker, then as one of the early digital-interactive artists of the 1990s. But Nathan found that his background...
Ty Morse, Songwhale – the best entrepreneurs are former artists!
Creativity is a potent fuel to kickstart entrepreneurial thinking in a person. Ty Morse of Songwhale is one of those unique entrepreneurs that can trace their entrepreneurial beginnings to their artistic career. Ty is the type of...