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  • Nuno Morgadinho 2:22 am on March 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Improve Your Productivity with Things on Mac OS X 

    If you’re on a Mac and looking for an easy and stylish to-do list software you might want to consider Things. It has a slick interface, allows you to keep items organized for different contexts (home, work, etc) and best of all (for me at least) you can very easily add tasks to it in one simple step using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Space in my case).

    With a version for the iPhone that syncs as well, this might be the productivity tool you’ve been looking for years now since you first read that wonderful (but hard to put into practice) book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. The cons will probably be the price and it being a desktop app but maybe you can live it that?

    I’ve been using it for over a month now and so far I’ve been happy with it. To be honest it hasn’t boost my productivity. These things are like buying news shoes for running: the shoes won’t do the running for you!

     
    • Nuno Morgadinho 2:25 am on March 4, 2010 Permalink

      Forgot to say this is wonderful to empty the email Inbox.

    • Ruben Fonseca 7:44 am on March 4, 2010 Permalink

      Hi Nuno! Do you have any special integration with Mail.app inbox and Things.app? Or do you simple create items on Things.app inbox as you are reading the emails?

      I bought both the desktop and the iphone version, and never went back to iGtd

    • Nuno Morgadinho 6:37 am on March 5, 2010 Permalink

      Ruben, in fact I’m simply creating items while I go through the emails. I find that to be a good pattern because emails most of the times don’t describe actions but rather “requirements” or whatever we want to call it :)

  • Nuno Morgadinho 9:24 am on March 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Invoic€xpress – Software de Facturação 

    Para freelancers e pequenos negócios que precisem de um software para facturação, podem dar uma vista de olhos ao Invoic€xpress. Já suporta o formato SAFT-PT que desde 1 de Janeiro de 2010 é obrigatório e também facturas electrónicas, entre outras funcionalidades.

    É um serviço totalmente web-based e tem um trial de 30 dias grátis para se experimentar. Após o periódo de trial, consoante o plano escolhido, paga-se uma pequena mensalidade por mês, mas é também possivel adquirir pacotes de facturas a vulso por um preço fixo (para quem não gostar de pagar mensalidades).

    Fica a dica. Aproveitem e se experimentarem e gostarem digam qualquer coisa.

    p.s. O Invoic€xpress é um produto da RUPEAL.

     
    • Paulo Abreu 7:04 am on March 4, 2010 Permalink

      O SAFT-PT é obrigatório desde 1 Janeiro de 2008.

    • Nuno Morgadinho 9:05 am on March 4, 2010 Permalink

      Paulo, obrigado pela correcção. Na verdade estava a referir-me à nova estrutura do SAFT-PT, que entrou em vigor a partir de 1 de Janeiro de 2010.

  • Nuno Morgadinho 8:23 am on February 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Empresa em Portugal vs Silicon Valley 

    A INEO, na sua mais recente newsletter, trouxe à baila outra vez a sessão intitulada “Da Ideia à Empresa” que o co-fundador, CEO e Business Development Director da Critical Software deu na Take Off 2007. Se ainda não ouviram vale a pena ouvir o Gonçalo Quadros falar um bocadinho sobre a história desta empresa, que é das mais reconhecidas empresas portuguesas no mundo.

    http://ineo.pt/2010/02/podcast-goncalo-quadros-critical/

    Do outro lado do oceano, as histórias são bem diferentes mas também valem a pena ouvir :) Aqui fica um vídeo de um painel com 6 estudantes de Stanford que criaram empresas nos seus 20 e poucos anos.

    “Six young Stanford grads and entrepreneurs — Steven Garrity, Clara Shih, Kimber Lockhart, Jeff Seibert, Josh Reeves, and Tristan Harris — share their experiences starting companies and raising capital. While being in their 20s may seem to be an obstacle to outsiders, they said they “flipped” this liability into an asset — focusing instead on their raw ability to bring innovative ideas to life. They advise all young entrepreneurs to be persistent, opportunistic, and scrappy. “

     
  • Nuno Morgadinho 4:32 am on February 24, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Coworking Lisboa 

    http://www.coworklisboa.pt/

     
    • Pedro Sousa 10:21 am on February 26, 2010 Permalink

      É um sitio fantastico para estar. confirmo. :)

    • Nuno Morgadinho 10:28 am on February 26, 2010 Permalink

      Oi Pedro, vi-te no vídeo e já tinha visto no teu blog que costumas utilizar o espaço. Parece ser um sítio porreiro e que segue a ideia do “coworking” genuinamente, ou seja, onde as pessoas estão todas na mesma situação. É verdade? Digo isto porque também há empresas que alugam espaços dentro dos seus escritórios e lhe chamam coworking mas para mim isso é mais um “aluguer de escritório” do que um espaço de coworking.

  • Nuno Morgadinho 4:02 am on February 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Startups and Samurais 

    In this video Jason Calacanis talks about his experience as an entrepreneur and also what it takes to succeed in creating a successful startup company. It starts off a bit slow but after warming up Jason really nails it: “you go through the world as a Samurai, you just walk through all this noise, with a huge sword right on your belt, which you know you can take at any moment and just cut someone in half”. A must watch if you’re into startups.

    Via MV

     
  • Nuno Morgadinho 1:48 pm on January 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Kickstart: What is in it for me? 

    Este fim de semana foi o Kickstart 1H10, um Weekend Bootcamp para empreendedores, organizado pela SeedCapital em Lisboa. Correu muito bem, recebemos boas sugestões e foi muito útil. Os projectos que vão receber financiamento ainda não são conhecidos mas posso dizer que estamos super entusiasmados com o nosso projecto, mais motivados que nunca e passámos da fase do “ah e tal temos de acreditar que isto vai funcionar” para “agora sabemos o que fazer e como se vai processar”. Temos riscos que estamos a correr claro mas sabemos quais são e isso reduz a incerteza de todo o processo.

    Durou Sexta e Sábado o dia todo. Sexta falou-se sobre Estratégia, Modelos de Negócio, Gestão Financeira, Contabilidade e Fisco. Sábado falou-se sobre Criação de Negócios e Marketing.

    Já tinha feito o Kickstart Mini-MBA com o Mário Valente e portanto algumas coisas não eram totalmente novas para mim. A parte sobre Marketing ficou a cargo do Patrick van der Walk e posso dizer que simplesmente adorei a talk dele. Claramente conhecer o Patrick e poder trocar impressões com ele é uma valia extremamente grande.

    No Sábado à tarde as equipas fizeram o seu “elevator pitch” e também uma apresentação de cerca de 30 minutos sobre os seus projectos ao conselho consultivo da SeedCapital, constituído por pessoas da área financeira, propriedade intelectual, advogados, etc.

    Algumas coisas que deu para perceber:

    • Quando se começa a pensar numa ideia para um projecto, que eventualmente pode justificar a criação de uma empresa, nem sempre se tem a noção do que isso implica. Quando se faz os fluxos de caixa, mesmo que em forma de previsão, percebe-se que para ter uma empresa é preciso conseguir um certo volume de negócios para compensar a criação da mesma. Os fluxos de caixa são úteis também para se perceber que investimento inicial é necessário. Deixa de ser uma coisa totalmente inventada e passa-se a ter um plano concreto no papel que permite ver mês após mês se estamos a ir no rumo certo ou se é preciso ajustar alguma coisa, e.g. o esforço de vendas ou o esforço de marketing.
    • Talvez mais importante de tudo foi o ter percebido mais uma vez a importância de sair da zona de conforto e ir falar com as pessoas sobre o que é importante para elas e se a nossa ideia vai resolver um problema real.

    O que a SeedCapital está a fazer é diminuir as barreiras à entrada que existem em Portugal para os novos empreendedores tecnológicos. A maior parte das iniciativas do género (IAPMEI, bancos, etc.) são extremamente burocráticas e tratam tudo da mesma forma, seja o vosso negócio uma carrinha de cachorros ou uma coisa tecnológica. Normalmente é logo exigido um plano de negócios e não há ajuda para o elaborar.

    A sensação que tenho é que o processo na SeedCapital é mais gradual e faseado. Tendo uma ideia que à partida parece ter potencial aprende-se a que perguntas é preciso saber responder para analisar a sua viabilidade, em oposição ás outras iniciativas onde é preciso responder ás mesmas perguntas (possivelmente mais), sem estar consciente da sua importância e de como chegar ás respostas, e isso é fundamental.

     
    • Sérgio Santos 10:21 am on January 12, 2010 Permalink

      Obrigado por partilhares a experiência que tiveste no Kickstart. Parece ter sido muito bom. Agora resta saber mais sobre a ideia que apresentaste :)

    • Henrique 9:27 am on January 15, 2010 Permalink

      E já agora, qual é o projecto que estás a desenvolver??

  • Nuno Morgadinho 10:19 pm on December 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    The on-line place for live concerts 

    I had this fantastic idea the other day. A web site where people can watch live concerts. I’m talking here about:

    High-Quality Audio Streaming

    High-Quality Wide Screen Video Streaming

    Don’t you just love it?

    DVD-Quality like.

    But then I found out about Fabchannel.com, now closed after 10 years in business, and moved on.

     
    • me 4:31 am on December 28, 2009 Permalink

      and all because corporate greed and short-sighted people run the industry.

  • Nuno Morgadinho 5:50 am on December 11, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Hackers, Makers and Geeks in Lisbon 

    As I mentioned in my previous post, I have some friends who are not applying to SeedCapital because they are by themselves. Unfortunately there isn’t yet a place where people can see what projects are in need of more people. It is also not that easy to meet someone on-line to work together. We need a certain trust in that person, etc.

    I think the best way to meet people that are interested, smart and have initiative is to attend one of the many hacker events that are held monthly (or at least regularly). In Lisbon we have several of them:

    Twittlis – monthly meeting of twitter.com users in Lisbon
    http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4884748/pt/Lisbon/Twittlis-monthly-meeting-of-twittercom-users-in-Lisbon-19/Mar-Adentro

    AltLab Hackerspace Lisbon
    http://altlab.org/

    Lisbon Perl Mongers Group
    http://lisbon.pm.org/

    Comunidade Portuguesa de Rich Internet Applications
    http://www.riapt.org/

    Lisbon Ruby Group
    http://www.ruby-pt.org/

    Gathering of Developers
    http://god.pt/

    One Over Zero Group
    http://oneoverzero.org/

    Do you know of any other groups?

    Update (13/12/2009): Since this post I’ve found out about the following groups:

    XAMLPT – Comunidade Portuguesa para Tecnologias de Apresentação da Microsoft: WPF, Silverlight, Surface
    http://www.xamlpt.com

    Ignite Portugal
    http://www.igniteportugal.blogspot.com

    Portuguese Ubuntu Community
    http://www.ubuntu-pt.org

    Mobile Monday Portugal
    http://mobilemondayportugal.com

    Confraria Security & IT
    http://events.linkedin.com/Confraria-Security-TB-Store/pub/50120

     
    • joao 6:57 am on December 11, 2009 Permalink

      Unfortunately I don’t know any. I would be interested in such groups but not only in Lisbon. Portugal has Hackers, Makers and Geeks also outside Lisbon, some of them are truly good ones and other truly bad ones, like in Lisbon :)

      Can’t understand why we have so many Lisbon Groups and not Portugal Groups instead.

    • Pedro Sousa 9:46 am on December 11, 2009 Permalink

      btw, It’s not Lisbon Ruby Group, it’s portuguese ruby group. we co-organized some dinners in Coimbra and Porto.

      I think it’s just a mather of audience, if enough people organize stuff outside of Lisbon, the rest of the community will mostly follow (ex: takeoff, barcamp).

    • RicardoCastelhano 10:19 am on December 11, 2009 Permalink

      Heyas Nuno,

      tens também o grupo

      XAMLPT – Comunidade Portuguesa para Tecnologias de Apresentação da Microsoft: WPF, Silverlight, Surface (http://www.xamlpt.com)

      Bom trabalho com o blog !

    • Nuno Morgadinho 7:28 am on December 12, 2009 Permalink

      Thanks guys for all the feedback.

      There is also Ignite Portugal. Their next meeting will be in 17th of December, in Lisbon.

    • Jose 4:04 am on December 28, 2009 Permalink

      There you go the Portuguese PHP User Group

      http://groups.google.com/group/portugal-phpug

      I believe that there are some more, but don’t know the addresses.

  • Nuno Morgadinho 1:00 pm on November 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    European Web Startups Founded in Germany 

    It isn’t Silicon Valley but old Europe still has a few interesting things going on in the startup world. I went around to search for startups in Germany and around. I looked particularly for companies doing Software as a Service.

    It features where the companies are based and what service they provide. It is by no means comprehensive, just enough to tease those pessimists that say nothing is going on in Europe. Here is the list I came up with, feel free to comment about other interesting startups you know about:

    • Babbel – by Lesson Nine GmbH, in Berlin – online platform for teaching languages.
    • Jimdo – by Jimdo GmbH, in Hamburg – online platform for website creation.
    • ScaleUp – by ScaleUp Technologies GmbH, in Hamburg – online cloud computing platform.
    • TripWolf – by tripwolf GmbH, in Vienna – travel tips from professional travel writers.
    • fatfoogoo – by fatfoogoo AG, in Vienna – in-game commerce ecosystems for the monetization of online games and virtual worlds via microtransactions.
    • yigg – by YiGG GmbH, in Munich – social news website with features such as discussion boards, map integration, bookmarking and geotagging.
    • papermint – by Avaloop IT Solutions GmbH, in Vienna – virtual world with casual gaming and social networking.
    • wooga – by wooga GmbH, in Berlin – social games for networks like Facebook.
    • absolventa – by Absolventa GmbH, in Berlin – online platform that allows companies/recruiter to view the resumes and contact graduating students.
    • Venyoo – by venyoo GmbH, in Hamburg – one of the leading event calendars in Germany.
    • Communipedia – by ekaabo GmbH, in Weinheim – service developed to help people build a social identity to take on the web.
    • Xing – by XING AG, in Hamburg – social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals.
    • Studivz – by VZnet Netzwerke Ltd., in Berlin – social network platform. Studivz.net is very similar to Facebook, but primarily focuses on the German speaking market. The company was sold to Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a German publishing group, for €85 million [1] in January 2007.
    • Opportuno – by Opportuno GmbH, in Munich – job search engine that specializes in finding jobs directly on employers’ web sites.
    • FriendCaller – by C2Call GmbH, in Werl, near Cologne – browser based Java VoIP service. Which has recently received funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds [2].

    [1] – http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/03/german-facebook-clone-sells-for-e100-million
    [2] – http://www.high-tech-gruenderfonds.de/htgf/

     
    • Thomas Oppong 6:52 am on November 30, 2009 Permalink

      I think there are a lot of potential in Europe. Keep us updated on the rest of Europe.France has a lot of startups too. Anyway thanks for the heads up in Germany.

    • Kevin Dykes 3:51 pm on December 13, 2009 Permalink

      Hi Nuno – Thanks for including @scaleup in your list of interesting startups going on in Europe. After spending almost 14 years in the US startup world and the past year here in Germany, I agree with you… Europe is producing exciting some companies right now!

      Let us know if we can ever provide any insights or support as you grow your company. We love supporting founders of startups – especially those right here in Germany!

  • Nuno Morgadinho 5:25 pm on September 29, 2009 Permalink  

    If you've never failed, you've never lived 

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