The Web Summit. Tomorrow more than today – Daily News – Lisbon

Entrepreneurship. More a beautiful word, such as innovation, that, at this time raises feelings as contradictory as the enthusiasm and disrepute. Many have already shut down when talking about entrepreneurs. Not everything is the truth. Entrepreneurship since then, rounds of investment there, unicorns and one billion dollar companies there. Phrases, inspiring lessons for success, many balelas and misconceptions. So, if you undo the beauty of the word and all that is behind. Not everything is entrepreneurship, and many are the miles to be entrepreneurs.

But between what is truth and deserves to be recognized – the startups to hear, approve, and reward, as was said yesterday the minister of the Economy – and that is born and dies in the jargon of the time there is a big difference.

In an economy which was stagnant and full of old problems, it is well–coming the excitement of the young people, their ideas and the conviction (the only one) to win to convince us that the future will be more than this; to make us dream and, above all, believe. And today starts a serious thing. The ecosystem – the slang of the community (that annoys me particularly) – joins-if the whole day at an event, with the right of the prime minister, ministers, State secretaries and mayors. The Road 2 the Web Summit kicks off in the new Hub of Creative and Entrepreneurial of the Blessed (30 thousand square metres), in Lisbon, the largest of Portugal and one of the largest at the european level, which provides more initiatives throughout the year and throughout the country. Today, will be known to the 66 great, the best startups in portugal, which will represent Portugal at the Web Summit, which will arrive to Lisbon in less than two months. Signed up to 237 were approved 170, but only

66 will have direct input in the biggest event of entrepreneurship in Europe. The Web Summit will feature more than 50 thousand participants from more than 150 countries, including more than 20 thousand companies, seven thousand presidents, 700 investors and two thousand international journalists. The storefront. Is not the play. Up here, there were ideas, mentoring, business plans, hit a lot of doors looking for funding, the enormous effort of creating the product, the brand and the market, of doing business, money. That is, there was even a lot of work, many hours without sleep, many successes, many others failures and, in these cases, very important, the persistence and the resilience to come back with the same guy and the will strengthened. It is not easy. Believe me. Them, and in the value of the show (in show business…), because there is still, after those days of frenetic, footprint to follow. Put aside the prejudice that came with the popularization of the concept of entrepreneurship. Be amazed, to believe that some of these Makers, as they like to call – many were born and grew up together with the Money Live, will create employment and contribute to increase the national GDP. Tomorrow more than today.