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If you don’t feel comfortable with it, drop it
We’ve all experienced a proliferation of startup programs across the geography. With new programs come more mentors. Some are more valuable than others. And we all know this. There are two sides to mentoring. The advice received and the implementation of that advice. Most mentors will give contradictory advice. This
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Do you want to change your company’s corporate culture? Learn how now!
Hello, everyone! We’re very happy to announce that we’re partnering with our good friends from Improvement21 to deliver a new workshop on CultureHack in London! What is this CultureHack thing? Well, we will be focusing on Change Management, Culture improvement and Storytelling in a business context. So, essentially, how do
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The malleable nature of stories
One of the most powerful aspects of stories is their malleable nature. You can tell a story today and if the story is good enough, it will be told long after you created it. Sometimes the story is so good, it will be told for generations to come. What is
Three cities and one story to rule them all
Wow, what a crazy two weeks we’ve had! We’ve been touring around Europe giving our communication and storytelling workshop and it’s been incredible. First, we want to thanks the guys at the Bitspiration conference in Krakow for inviting us to talk and for helping us give the workshop to their
Oupas Design: Customer care at its best
Yesterday I had one of those surprises that make your day. I had a package waiting for me at the post office. When I saw the senders address my heart skipped a beat. It was from Portugal, from a design studio called Oupas! Design. I’ll talk about them below, but
Bringing the communication, PR and storytelling to Madrid
We want to announce that finally, we’re brining our workshop on storytelling to Madrid on June 6th (9am – 2pm). It’s quite a popular workshop for many startups as we aid them when dealing with tech bloggers, media and we work with them on the crafting of their startup story.
42 Beers and wonder woman
First of all, thank you very much to everyone that came to the event this week. Glad to see so many known faces and people that came back for more after the first 2 editions. This time we had two very interesting startups, Qrystal, former Tetuan Valley alumni and Ducksboard,
The third edition of 42 Beers is around the corner
We are happy to announce our third edition of our 42 Beers event! We’re quite surprised by the traction the event is gathering and how much feedback both, startups and audience is receiving. For those that are reading about the event for the first time, it’s essentially an open event
Thinking global is not an option for startups anymore
We just got back from Poland were we were invited to give a talk at one of the largest investment forums in Poland, the Satus VC investment forum. It’s been a very interesting trip. We were initially connected with them in San Francisco and we had a long conversation on
New partnership with the Pirates
We already broke this news last week, but we wanted to make it official. We’re partnering with the guys at Startup Exchange Program, which incidentally are our great friends and neighbors, StartupX the non-for profit org that runs Startup Pirates in Portugal. So, what is Startup Exchange Program? Well, it’s
The Startup Digest Effect
We recently came back from the Bay Area, California. We had the luck of being able to teach our Communication, PR and Storytelling workshop there. It’s been an incredible experience. Being used to the European ecosystem, it was a huge challenge for us to promote the workshop in San Francisco
The Aulery awards
That I’m in love with Poland is no secret for those that follow me. One of the reason why I’m so amazed with Poland is because their technology trajectory during these past 2 years has been amazing. During that time I’ve had the pleasure to be invited many times to
Before and after of a startup story
As we said before, here are some amazing examples that came out of the PR and communication workshop we gave in London a couple of weeks ago. Many thanks to Danny Currie from Gavurin, one of the startups that attended the workshop and shared with us both pieces, the original
