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A weekly read on Portugal’s startup scene. Adamastor Weekly every Tuesday, plus occasional opinion from named voices in the ecosystem.
Adamastor Weekly
Week 29
The weeks before summer break have a particular rhythm. The ecosystem slows down just enough for us to notice the things we usually miss: the conversations that linger, the ideas that finally breathe, the founders who admit, without guilt, that they need a pause. Next editions…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 28
What makes someone a true entrepreneur? Is it resilience, creativity, risk tolerance or a bit of everything, deeply wired into who they are? This week marks the final stretch of the Founder Institute batch. It’s always a fascinating moment. Before the program begins, many…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 27
When Summer Stops Being Just Summer Across Europe, temperatures are climbing again, and it’s not only the weather charts that are spiking; it’s operational costs, productivity dips, and the general strain on teams. Extreme heat has quietly become a structural factor in how…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 26
The 351 Portuguese Startup Association has become one of the most consequential forces in Portugal’s entrepreneurial landscape. What began as a grassroots digital community has evolved into something far more structural: the social infrastructure that gives density,…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 25
June arrives and Portugal shifts into that unmistakable rhythm of the Popular Saints: Santo António, São Pedro and, above all, São João. These aren’t just festivities; they’re full‑body experiences. And if you’re in Porto, you know there’s no description that does São João…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 24
Resilience. We usually define it as the ability to recover quickly from difficulties. A neat dictionary sentence for something that, in real life, is anything but neat. This week, I kept thinking about the founders we meet across the ecosystem; different industries, different…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 23
This week, the Government launched the Green Rail Pass inside the gov.pt app. A small feature, yes, but also a moment when a public digital service feels… well, like a service. Useful, simple, and where citizens already are. It’s a reminder of something we often forget:…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 22
What Young Entrepreneurship Is Really Telling Us About Portugal? That's a question I put myself over the last weeks as I’ve been moving between university competitions — NOVA, NOVA SBE, Católica — and the pattern is unmistakable: there is talent, energy, and a genuine will to…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 21
There are meetings that follow the agenda, and there are meetings that reveal far more than what was planned. I’m fortunate to have more than a few of the second kind. I sat down with two founders to review the usual: what they are building, product, positioning, the next set of…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 20
I returned from Porto with tired legs and a head buzzing in that familiar way these gatherings tend to provoke (and the party along Dragao, Ribeira and Aliados dried my batteries). The third edition of SIM Conference once again filled the Alfândega with energy, ambition and a…
Carlos Resende
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A weekly read on Portugal’s startup scene — the raises, the launches, the hires — plus opinion from named voices in the ecosystem. Curated by Carlos Resende since 2017.