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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 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
Adamastor Weekly
Week 14
When Knowledge Leaves the University Walls, Everyone Wins For years we’ve repeated the same sentence in Portugal: “knowledge must leave the universities and reach the companies.” It sounds obvious, but when you listen closely to the people who live this bridge every day, you…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 13
Entrepreneurs are wired for possibility. Most are risk‑takers, adventurers, passionate builders who wake up every day ready to chase an opportunity. And even though almost all of them carry a few painful failures in their journey, they still show up again and again, to face…
Carlos Resende
Adamastor Weekly
Week 12
What they matter for Portuguese Startups Two major European milestones landed almost back‑to‑back: the latest advances in the EU INC framework and the publication of the Rebuild Letter . At first glance, they might look like another round of Brussels centric paperwork.…
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.