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Author: Inês Silva

Inês is a 26-year old entrepreneur who has been globally recognized for her work as a startup accelerator and community builder. She is the co-founder of multiple successful startup initiatives, including StartupX, Trojan Horse was a Unicorn, Startup Pirates, and Startup Tour. She is also an avid TEDx organizer, Global Shapers Lisbon Member and one of the youngest ever graduates of Singularity University.

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Education

Coding: a war for talent

Inês Silva

Aug 11, 2015

For the ones that are not paying attention, there is a war for talent in Portugal. Tech startups are fighting hard to attract and recruit the best IT talent available and there is...

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Featured

What the heck is Pre-Acceleration?

Inês Silva

Aug 10, 2015

“Pre-Acceleration” is a fairly new term and easily confused. While today, we are seeing news of the launch of more and more pre-accelerators, like the Y Combinator Fellowship...

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Featured

Farewell interview with Sandra Sick

Inês Silva

Aug 3, 2015

Often times we forget that the Portuguese startup scene is very recent. Four years ago, we couldn’t really speak of an ecosystem. Startups were rare, business angels and venture...

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Events

Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley

Inês Silva

Jul 28, 2015

On September 21-25 a European delegation of policy makers, startups, established corporations and investors will meet Silicon Valley business leaders to foster cross-continental...

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Launching

We all need them – what are the COOL TOOLS?

Inês Silva

Jul 27, 2015

Tools, tools and more tools. We all need them, but it’s not always easy to find the right one, at the right moment, for the right task. With this is mind and because, over and...

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Entrepreneurs

Tradition meets beauty and functionality at Uvoir

Inês Silva

Jun 16, 2015

We have written before about the intersection between technology and fashion and the potential this nascent field has for Portugal. Companies like Farfetch, Chic-by-Choice, Gleam...

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Industries

Meet the startup that will kill your passwords

Inês Silva

Jun 15, 2015

If you hate passwords as much as I do, you are going to love loqr, a simple to use Authentication Solution, based on QR code technology, using state-of-the-art cryptographic...

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Talkdesk Announces $15 Million Series A

Inês Silva

Jun 9, 2015

Talkdesk, a cloud-­based call center software provider, founded by Cristina Fonseca and Tiago Paiva back in 2011, announced today a $15M Series A financing round led by DFJ with...

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10 Portuguese startup tools you need to use

Inês Silva

May 18, 2015

Building a startup is no simple task. Too many requests and not enough time to take advantage of all opportunities that exist out there. Using the right set of startup tools can...

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Exits

Farfetch buys Browns Fashion Boutique

Inês Silva

May 14, 2015

Farfetch has bought one of London's most iconic boutiques, Browns and plans to operate the store as an incubator for retail technology. How will people shop for luxury...

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