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[caption id="attachment_155" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="efficient meetings (credit: http://www.ilovenewwork.com)"][/caption] One of the skills I developed the most while at the European Space Agency was how to manage my time,  have EXTREME respect for others time and ALWAYS have clear agendas and objectives for meetings. Translating this into actions: Nobody would wait for you if you were more than 5 minutes late for a meeting. Every meeting would have a concise agenda with clearly stated objectives. People would terminate a meeting at the exact time it was scheduled...
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This is my first post in Portuguese ever. I´ve decided so since it is about a Portuguese attitude that I would be to embarrassed to write about in English. Em Setembro  2009 foram abertos concursos no âmbito do Quadro Regional de Enquadramento Nacional (QREN) que "visam a constituição ou reforço de Fundos de Capital de Risco (FCR)". Mais informação aqui. Com um total de investimento de cerca de 150 milhões de euros, pareceu-me uma excelente iniciativa e que iria certamente incentivar a inovação em Portugal e a criação de novas empresas de base tecnologica já que existir...
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[caption id="attachment_121" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Rising Taxes"][/caption] EU citizens are well aware of the financial stress the Euro is in. There are many factors that can be pointed as causes to this situation, ranging from the still ongoing financial crisis to the speculation against the euro to a fundamental breakdown of the EU Dream as pointed by Gideon Rachman in this FT article. Hit particularly hard are, obviously, the less prepared countries such as the now famous PIIGS, of which I belong the the P. I am certainly not the one to judge the analist that, in the...
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May

02

High performance teams

Team performance stages

Team performance stages

The difference between top performing team and a so-so team are appalling.

Saying this is quite easy and one can read about it in the literature (see Wikipedia article).

However building a team and ensuring that this happens is quite a challenge and it is a lot more related to the personalities of the team members and team leaders than it is to simply applying a formula or recipe.

My team at FeedZai is now performing as a fine tuned machine and the results it delivers are simply impressive. I leave you with a video of the surprise they have made to me on Friday.

Reading of the week

Word of Mouth Marketing

Word of Mouth Marketing

The reading of the week goes to Word Of Mouth Marketing by Andy Sernovitz.

For someone building a company from scratch, as I am with Feedzai,  where resources are scarce this is the main if not only source of advertising you have at your disposal.The holy grail of marketing is that your users/customers act as your main source of publicity and that they tell their friends or customers/partners how great you and whatever your are selling are.

If you are in the same situation go and read the book as there are many easy to use techniques that you can apply the next day.

Apr

23

Pile of books

Pile of books

While I await for my ipad to arrive from its world wide tour event (San Francisco to Sidney to London to Lisbon) I have to resort to reading hard copies versions of books. Below is a short list for this week, courtesy of LQ, @loic (from Seesmic) and the 451group @caos.

- If you are out there raising money better read this Harvard Business Review article as it gives you some insight into how VC´s reason. How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Venture Opportunities

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin

Trust Agents by Chris Brogan

Engage! by Brian Solis

Rework by Jason Fried & David Hansson of 37 Signals

On the Open Source front reading, the following reads are quite interesting:

- OSS Industry Savings - This report investigates the use of open source software libraries in proprietary software developments. The results show that open source libraries are widely used in a set of over 300 proprietary systems, and their usage has introduced estimated savings in excess of 1 million EUR per system. Download here: OSS Industry Savings – SIG report on software industry savings resulting from use of open source software
- Free 451 Group report on regional differences in attitudes to open source adoption – This reports on a survey of 1,700 open source software users and the reasons why they adopt open source. Hint, it is not about cost cutting! Download it here

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