Today, Fábrica de Startups (Fábrica) and Canopy announces the formal partnership between the two organisations, enabling members to access shared services in Boston (USA), Lisbon (Portugal) and Exeter (UK).

What do you want the visitors at Web Summit to go away thinking about Lisbon, Portugal, the Portuguese?

• Nice wine, nice weather?
• Everyone was very friendly?
• Great conference, I met a lot of awesome people from London and Berlin?

Marco Marques candidatou-se ao Tourism Ideation Week porque já há algum tempo que queria entrar no mundo das startups. 

Assim que foi aceite no programa, o Marco sentiu que entrou logo "em passo de corrida".

Bárbara Vidal, founder of Wine With a View,  had always dreamed of having her own business. Bárbara had a lot of ideas, but none of them really made her feel the spark inside her.  

"A month before my [back then] only child turned one year old, I finally got the idea that made me feel that spark. My husband [an experienced investor] was always very engaged whenever I spoke of an idea I had in mind for a business. But he was particularly interested in this one."

We've got exciting news for you! Piers Corfield, a serial tech and communications entrepreneur and CEO of Dashboard, is going to be in Lisbon from the 27th to the 29th of April and you can meet him in person!

"Who is this gentleman?" you may kindly ask. Well, to find out, just read the lines below! 

Bo Irik is a 27-year old Dutch girl, co-founder of SeaBookings, with her sister Femke. In Spring 2015, they found out about DISCOVERIES, an acceleration programme for travel&tourism startups, on Facebook. 

As Bo tells us, it was a fun challenge to take part in.

O Tourism Ideation Week, programa que gera ideias para responder aos desafios no setor do turismo e as põe em prática, chegou ao fim. 

Ao todo, meia centena de participantes selecionada, este neste bootcamp intensivo de cinco dias na Fábrica de Startups. Após notas introdutórias sobre o setor do turismo, dadas por António Lucena de Faria, CEO da Fábrica de Startups, e pela NOS, Deloitte Digital, entre outros, formaram-se equipas. 

The number one reason startups fail? Building things that the market neither wants or needs! Imagine that? Smart people committing themselves to a startup journey that consumes significant resources of time, money, energy and perspiration to ultimately be a flop because nobody buys it!

So you're taking your idea and you're going to do it! It's an exciting moment. A soul jiggling moment of truth. Perhaps a once in a lifetime experience? Whether or not it's your first startup there's always a rush of adrenaline at the thought of what's about to happen, the risks and the fortunes to be made.

Tycho Luyben is a Dutch entrepreneur living in a small village in Spain. Passionate about programming since he was 8 years old, he built his own software company at the age of 18, sold it and created Netherlands' biggest dating and hosting websites, just to name a few. Tycho is now living the life he has always dreamed of. But how did he do all this?

 "Entrepreneurs are the true heroes in a free enterprise society, driving progress in business, society and the world". Conscious Capitalism - John Mackey and Raj Sisodia.

These heroes undertake risky voyages of discovery which they bravely navigate with great skill, and sometimes resulting in abject failure. Indeed up to 90% of all startups fail to find land.

Today we're excited to announce the launch of our new monthly signature event - feeling the drumming momentum? - The Demo Night on Wednesday, 30th March, at 6.30pm!

This event is your 5 minutes of fame (still got 10 minutes left for the rest of your life) where you tell what you've been working on and then get 5 minutes feedback from people who'll also come up with they're working on.

How important is digital marketing for startups nowadays? And how can you use it when raising funds? 

We have asked Pedro Pereira, Head of Marketing at Uniplaces and an expert in the field. 

When beginning his first startup journey José Bastos, CEO of Knok, wasn't really sure what it would be like. Now, three months in, he has customers, revenue and offers of investment. Knok has even saved a life! All of this by spending a small part of the co-founders savings. But how did José do this?

A história do Ricardo é verdadeiramente inspiradora! 

Este Português de 40 anos, lançou a sua startup há cerca de dois anos, depois de ter construído uma sólida experiência em grandes empresas, tais como ABB, Randstad ou Manpower.

Each month Fabrica's incubated teams and one guest mentor get together to share their startup's milestones, challenges and inspiration. November's guest mentor was the one and only Kwamecorp CTO and Creative Healthy Lifestyle champion and founder, Kim Hansen.

Here are a few sound bites from our lunch with Kim:

Depois das suas duas primeiras startups, Guilherme acabou com uma ideia nova: a Clickly (antiga Clinkpic), um software que monetiza websites, blogs ou meios de comunicação social, convertendo texto ou imagens em anúncios interativos ou lojas digitais. Resumidamente, a Clickly distribui anúncios de forma programática num formato nativo.