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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

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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.

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