Reality check... being an entrepreneur.

Being an entrepreneur in Portugal is a major challenge that is made to appear.

And the problem is not only in the “entrepreneurs” (they exist!). Not only is there not a real policy of Risk Capital, incentives (they are for everyone but only more or less) and banking... Startups? Forget it.

For this reason, as an old Spanish friend said, “Less says, says and more does, does!”.

Because sometimes we forget that the goal of companies is not to get investments but something more basic like... generating revenue, a presentation of David Heinemeier Hanson, creator of Ruby on Rails and CoFounder 37signals which explains that sometimes it's hard to be the next FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube but... we can succeed in just... ** More of the same**.

Despite the somewhat squeaky voice... David is a brilliant guy who does an excellent “Reality check” here and explains how to create a (relative) success StartUp:

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By the way... it’s worth seeing the rest of the series “ Startup School “.

P.S.: We are definitely entering a new bubble. You still don't feel in Portugal but you're already very visible in the American market... and this time we have numbers and metrics to support it!