Miguel Pinho

If you’re like me and want to, from time to time, watch amazing interviews about entrepreneurs here is a great website for you: foundation.bz. The interviewer is  Kevin Rose mainly known for being the founder of Digg and the interviews are pretty awesome!

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Being Beaunity‘s founder I have the pleasure to let you know that I have been awarded the “Certificate of Young Entrepreneur of the Year” – meaning that Beaunity was amongst the few finalists that were selected from the 200 projects that applied for this year’s “National Ideas Competition” (Concurso Nacional de Ideias 2012) organised by ANJE.

ANJE (National Young Entrepreneurs Association) is one of the most relevant entrepreneurship associations in the country and being selected amongst so many projects in this nation wide competition is definitely a positive sign for Beaunity!

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I’ve just spent “An Evening with Steve Blank” well … sort of – I’ve watched a video of someone who did and it’s 23h30,  so it kind of counts I guess. It’s a great video where he shares his experience, opinion and views on startups creation and growth with us. Video highlights:

• “Startup founders are either visionaries or they are alucinating!”
• “Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups” – He starts his presentation with this quote and manages to justify it quite well
• Difference of a “Startup” and a “Scalable Startup”

Here’s the video, enjoy:

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It’s been a while since the first Kiva Dinner at Vale de Cambra which happend on February 2012. The event went quite well and I am now very happy to “report” that the first loan we made is now 100% repaid – take a look:

If you’re still not a member please (!) …. create an account now because your first $25 dollars are free to lend:

 ”When one of your friends joins Kiva, you’ll both get to make a $25 loan for free.”

So do not waste more time and start to make a difference now: http://kiva.org/invitedby/miguelpinho

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… is pure awesomeness!

As you’ve probably understood by now, I had the pleasure of participating in Startup Pirate @ Oporto. The event was really (!) cool and I recommend it to anyone who’s thinking about starting a venture.

A little bit more about startuppirates.org:

Startup Pirates is an one-week acceleration program for entrepreneurs in the making. Basically, through a combination of training, mentoring and idea development we help participants structure and develop their ideas and in the end we give them the opportunity to pitch their ideas to investors and successful business leaders.

Why was it awesome? (more…)

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