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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 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
Adamastor Weekly
Week 19
When Ronaldo jumps, the stadium holds its breath. When he lands with that unmistakable “ Sim! ”, the energy shifts, a spark, a surge, a collective lift. That same pulse is about to hit Porto again. SIM Conference returns this week , and once more the city becomes a meeting…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 18
This week’s Adamastor was inspired by a post from Udemy’s co‑founder; one of the most successful startups to emerge from the Founder Institute , and by a sharp comment from Fernando Fraga: politeness in mentorship is rarely about protecting the founder; it’s about protecting…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 17
The ecosystem is buzzing again, and the next days offer one of those rare snapshots where everything overlaps: international networks landing, local communities multiplying events, and universities finally trying to reinvent their role in the talent pipeline. It’s the kind of…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 16
and Why Portugal Can’t Ignore It Somewhere along the way, we convinced ourselves that research and execution pull in opposite directions. That one belongs to universities and the other to startups; that research slows you down and the market speeds you up. As if science were a…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 15
The world feels unstable again. Conflicts rise, tensions spread, and uncertainty has become part of our daily vocabulary. From Ukraine to the Middle East, from political shocks to economic volatility, it often seems like we are living in a permanent state of disruption. And yet,…
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.