André Leonardo is one of the authors of “67 Voices for Portugal”, a book sponsored by ISCTE Executive Education, to be published by LeYa/Oficina do Livro, the voices of 67 Portuguese personalities are heard as they share their visions of Portugal's future and reflect on the challenges and responsibilities facing the country [...]
(Article published in Diário Insular and Correio dos Açores) This month, to get the year off to a great start, I decided to write about the first time I went to the (former) Estádio da Luz. I remember it perfectly. I must have been about 10 years old and although I had visited Lisbon before, this is one of the first times I remember [...]
(article published in Diário Insular & Correio dos Açores)I'm a self-confessed nerd when it comes to entrepreneurship and here's my disclaimer before I start the opinion piece itself: I've been studying the subject for almost 15 years, I'm a professor of entrepreneurship at ISCTE-IUL, I've specialised in entrepreneurship in medium-low population density territories and I've spoken to [...]
Over the years, as a result of the formal knowledge I've acquired in the areas of management, entrepreneurship, strategy and personal development, but also on the basis of the hundreds and hundreds of people I've spoken to and my own experience, I've organised and drawn up a kind of structure, a process by which we can guide ourselves to [...]
with surprising stories of Portuguese entrepreneurs who made it happen! “Faz Acontecer, Portugal” hits the bookshops this week After a long trip around the world in search of good business ideas in the most diverse areas, which resulted in numerous lectures and a first book, young entrepreneur André Leonardo focused on Portugal and travelled the Continent [...]
Have you identified an opportunity? Fantastic, now it's time to define your business concept. Making your business happen is a process. Over the course of 7 videos, I'll cover the various stages of this adventure. This will be the 7 videos for anyone thinking of making their business happen. Making a business happen usually starts with [...]
Do I have a good idea? Making your business happen is a process. Over the course of 7 videos, I'll cover the various stages of this adventure. This will be the 7 videos for anyone thinking of making their business happen. Making a business happen usually starts with an idea. Have you ever thought ‘I wonder if [...]
There are people and conversations that mark us. Pedro Vieira was one of the people who marked me, almost without realising it. I remember I was “in the early stages” of preparing the round the world trip, something that later gave rise to the Faz Acontecer movement, the book, the TV programme, the academies, the lectures and everything else, and talking to [...]
Inês Henriques, 50km world champion was this week's interviewee! Episode #06 of “this is making it happen” Inês spoke to us from Sierra Nevada where she has been preparing for her next races. Inês Henriques' story is made up of years upon years of training before arriving [...]
His name is Ricardo Soares, he's Portuguese and at the age of 16 he was employing four people in Figueiró dos Vinhos! At the age of 14 he created Figueiró TV with a friend, while a large part of the community thought he was “crazy”. At 16 he created Apollotec, a web services company, which he intends to turn into one of the first most efficient data centres in [...]
