By now we’ve learned that nothing good lasts forever. And, that is true for this 3rd Edition of Madeira Startup Retreat. On Wednesday, February 19th, we reached the end of six amazing, intense and fruitful weeks, and we celebrated that in the form of a Demo Day event that took place at the Auditorium of Museu […]
On Tuesday, February 11th, we welcomed Duarte Leite de Castro – Coordinator at Nova SBE Entrepreneurship Hub | EIR – for the workshop Measure your Business. Starting by sharing his career path, Duarte soon dived into the hard skills that allow for the measurement of the Startups’ Why, What and How. The mentor focused on […]
The fifth week of Madeira Startup Retreat ’20 is here, and with it came the time to RE-invent your IMPACT. On Monday, February 10th, Ricardo Zózimo – Assistant Professor of Management at NOVA SBE – joined our startups for the workshop Leadership for Impact… Impactful it was! Distancing himself from classical talks and presentations, Ricardo took […]
Madeira Startup Retreat > Demo Day February 19th > Museu da Casa da Luz, 14h10 to 18h30 [Free entrance, with registration] Startup Madeira, Turismo de Portugal and NOVA School of Business and Economics present on February 19th, 2020, the Demo Day of the 3rd edition of Madeira Startup Retreat, at the auditorium of Museu da […]
On February 6th, we welcomed for the 3rd year in a row, Madeira Startup Retreat’s partner SRS Advogados represented by Paulo Bandeira – Venture Capital Lawyer and Partner. An afternoon focused on the Investment Process in Startups. As it is now a habit, the startups welcomed Paulo Bandeira with a Flash Pitch, after witch Paulo took […]
The 4th week of Madeira Startup Retreat is all about RE-building a Solution, for which we challenged our entrepreneurs to do a Solution Sprint (February 3rd, 4th, and 5th), mentored by Diogo Silva – Grassroots Activist – & Julian Harzheim – Founder of NOVA Creative Hub. It was mostly three days of intense work, but […]
As you must know by now, Madeira Startup Retreat combines the hard work and expertise of an acceleration program with the fun and relaxation of a retreat. And on January 31st, it was mostly a fun afternoon! Created & designed by Ricardo Faia and Sara Morais, (local hosts of the 2nd edition), we had our […]
On January 29th, a long-time tradition came back into play: Speed-dating with the Local Hosts. After three weeks working alongside their designated startups, each Local Host had a chance to get to know the other entrepreneurs better on a 5-minute sprint-date with 6 rounds, covering topics ranging from academic background, hobbies, favorite places in Madeira, […]
On Wednesday, January 29th, Helder Gomes, a Madeiran-Londoner entrepreneur responsible for the @ExploringMadeira Instagram with page with 17,9k followers, conducted a workshop on Instagram Maximization. Participating in this edition of Madeira Startup Retreat as a guest entrepreneur, Helder is taking advantage of all we have to offer in order to develop his project, but […]
Carrying on with the 3rd week’s topic “Growth Hacking“, on January 28th Gil Belford – General Manager at Fever & Lisboa Secreta – joined our entrepreneurs for a workshop on Business Model Review & Growth. To start the day, as usual, each startup did a 3-minute flash pitch, and after introductions were made, it was time […]