Good Entrepreneurship in times of COVID-19

Good entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 situation

These have been particularly tough times for work. In addition to supporting our (wonderful) startups, our team has been in meetings and groups to turn the Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystem around when it comes to facing coronavirus. The truth is that this virus has messed with the wrong ecosystem. Together with all players and the Lisbon City Hall, we are working towards decreasing the impact on the startups’ economic activity, and on those who support them. News will come shortly, stay tuned!

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#underconstruction we will soon launch the website trabalhardecasa.pt, a repository of useful and relevant information about working from home. Stay tuned!

Hub Criativo do Beato launched the first newsletter this week – and it's almost as good as ours! 😉 Here, not only will the project’s status be shared, but also exciting news and events in the Beato and Marvila districts. Make sure you don’t miss any more and subscribe to it here!

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#voltaremosportugal (We'll be back)

The restaurant and hospitality sectors are worst affected by this crisis and it’s time we all got together and value those who have always been there for the good times and leisure – this is the main idea for the new campaign. #voltaremosportugal, by Classihy. Our startup created a people management tool (connecting managers, employees and customers) in restaurants and hotels and now wants to treasure these establishments that have always ensured us our wellbeing. 😊 Everyone can participate in this campaign and win prizes for when this all ends! Choose your favourite hotels and restaurants and take part here!

DefinedCrowd will hire 250 people this year!

Last week we shared DefinedCrowd’s 2019 growth report with you – with all these fantastic figures – and this week we found out that they are going to hire 250 more people!  It’s impressive and great to hear during these darker times, isn’t it? Hiring will take place throughout this year, and there are already some vacancies available on the website. Take a look and who knows, maybe you’ll be able to work in this potential Portuguese unicorn. 😏

STARTUP OF THE WEEK

 
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COVID-19 map by Mapidea

Mapidea is our expert in geographic data and provides this service to companies, with real, updated and reliable information – in the most user-friendly way possible. At times like this, when data maps are abundant and are not always correct, the startup decided to use its knowledge to create a COVID-19 map. This map will be updated continuously, providing the evolution of cases in Portugal and making an incidence rate by the number of inhabitants in each municipality. It can be found here. 🔎

COMMUNITY

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FabLab Lisboa is supporting 3D Mask Portugal to encourage, and also collect, 3D protective visors printed at home. The campaign aims to deliver these protective visors free of charge to health professionals in the country (there have already been more than 1280!), and anyone can contribute – you just need to own a 3D printer. See how you could help on the website!

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Should we take advantage of the quarantine to improve our digital skills?

We are partners with the Lisbon Digital School, and we are going to make the most of this quarantine by improving some digital concepts and notions. Are you with us? In April, May and June there will be a set of live digital courses about various Digital Marketing topics – SEO, Social Media Strategy, Marketing Influencers, Facebook and Instagram Ads, Instagram Marketing, E-mail Marketing, Facebook, Instagram and others. 😎
If you are in doubt about joining a course like this, stop by the Lisbon Digital School’s Instagram or on their website and attend one of the talks or webinars! Take advantage now and we’ll test those skills later!

OUR PROGRAMMES

 
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WPP Booster: 2nd Edition!

Who doesn’t need a boost these days? The second edition of the WPP Booster, organised by the WPP group and Startup Lisboa, has arrived and is ready to accelerate communication startups! Do you have an idea that could revolutionise Creativity, Media or Predictive Analytics or Technology in the communication sector? Apply here until April 19th.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

This week, APDC launched a page to broadcast several projects that help solve some of the problems caused by COVID-19. Take a look at it here. Because we want to make sure that you also have information about our startups and this current fight, we are continually updating our ‘Community is where the heart is 💙’ page on the Startup Lisboa website – visit us! 
This is a time also to train our creativity and give us a little more time to invest in our projects. Is this your situation? You know you can always apply for incubation at Startup Lisboa!  
It’s our goal to make our city greener, but for this, we are going to need entrepreneurs in our Women4Climate Lisboa acceleration programme - we have extended the application deadline to April 30th! 🌿

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