You don’t need to leave the country to get a hot career

November 21st, 2012 by Pedro

Last week Lisbon hosted three great events for Portuguese talent and entrepreneurs: Silicon Valley Comes to Lisbon Conference, Sapo Codebits, and Startup Weekend. So I thought this could be a great opportunity to promote our most recent campaign and try to expand our team, but most importantly to keep great talent in Portugal.

Too many people are leaving the country

According to the 21st of November issue of VISÃO magazine, more than 600 thousand people have left the country since the beginning of the crisis. And we now have over 100 thousand people that have a degree but can’t find a job. Also, roughly 30% of Lisbon MBA students leave Portugal to go to Startups in Angola, Mozambique and Brazil, according to Mbwana, Founder and Managing Partner of Savannah Fund.

If you leave Portugal, 5 other jobs will be lost

What happens when a Developer leaves Portugal? 5 jobs in local services will be lost! This terrifying statistic comes from Enrico Moretti of Berkeley University who analysed data from 8 million workers in 320 metropolitan areas. His finding: for each new high-tech job in a city, five additional jobs are ultimately created in local services. This means, for every tech job lost, 5 additional jobs will disappear as he explains in his book “The New Geography of Jobs”.

Change things!

So what can I do to change that? Events like Silicon Valley Comes to Lisbon, Codebits or Startup Weekend are a great start.

Silicon Valley Comes to Lisbon promotes entrepreneurship in Portugal. Startup Weekend helps people to take the first steps in developing their ideas, and to starting a company. New  companies create the most new jobs, and will ultimately pave the way out of the recession.

Join Webnographer

A few months back I joined Webnographer. It has been a constantly challenging experience, and that’s the fun of it! Everyday is different and I’m always learning something new and pushing myself further. Reaching my limits and establishing new ones.

If you’re interested in joining our team and get a hot career here in Portugal, please find more about our job opennings here: http://jobs.webnographer.com

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Iberian World Usability Day, Portugal 2012

November 6th, 2012 by Pedro


Webnographer has spontaneously decided to organize an event for the World Usability Day, seeing that there weren’t any in the whole Iberia.

This annual worldwide series of events, organized by the User Experience Professionals Association, promotes awareness of the benefits of usability engineering and user-centered design.

The theme for this World Usability Day is Usability in Financial Systems. World Usability Day 2012 will serve as an impetus for creating greater awareness for designs, products and services that improve and facilitate financial systems around the world. It will be held on Thursday, 8th November 2012 and Webnographer is happy to announce that will be hosting the event at their office in Lisbon!

If you are interested in user experience and usability, come and join us at Webnographer to talk about what matters most and learn some tips.

When: Thursday 8th November 2012, 7 pm to 11 pm
Where: Webnographer Research, Rua Artilharia 1, N 67 1ºD, in Lisbon, Portugal
How do I sign up for this? Sign up now via Eventbrite to secure your place.

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Talk: Should you do a Start Up in Portugal?

October 11th, 2012 by Pedro

Next Tuesday at 7 pm, James will be giving a talk at Beta-i ‘s October edition of Beta-talk on “Why Portugal?”. Why did Webnographer start up an operation in Portugal. What are the challanges, and what the differences between doing part of a start up here in Lisbon, compared to other countries. He will contrast working here with the experience of working in Ireland where the other part of Webnographer is, and London which is where he is from.

Beta-talks are organized by Beta-i, a non-profit organization focused on promoting entrepreneurship and connecting entrepreneurs on the most varied ways.

This event will be a good opportunity to check in with real entrepreneurs, to learn something from them and do lots of networking, all of this in a relaxed environment loaded with inspiring people.

When: Tuesday 16th October 2012, 7 pm to 8:30 pm
Where: Anfiteatro do Complexo Interdisciplinar do Instituto Superior Técnico – Alameda, in Lisbon, Portugal
How do I sign up for this? Sign up now via Eventbrite to secure your place.

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Traction Workshop for Start Ups

October 10th, 2012 by Pedro

You could have the greatest idea for a Start Up in the world, even have the best team working together to build a great product. If you don’t have traction, you’re not going anywhere. Traction shows a potential investor that your Start Up  is “going places.”

Next Tuesday 16th October 2012, James will be giving a free workshop on Traction organized by Webnographer and Beta-i at Startup Lisboa, the incubator. The workshop will give you the tools to create “Traction” for your Start Up so that you can raise funding, or bootstrap your way to success. It will cover why a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) matters, what do VCs really want, and how to build momentum.

Tech Entrepreneurs, you shouldn’t miss this.

When: Tuesday 16th October 2012, 10 am to 5 pm
Where: Startup Lisboa, Rua da Prata, N 80, in Lisbon downtown, Portugal
How do I sign up for this? Sign up now via Eventbrite to secure your place.

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Client Testimonial: The Webnographer remote testing solution was the perfect fit!

January 30th, 2012 by Sabrina

We recently worked on an exciting project with Travelport, a leading provider of global travel distribution systems. Travelport asked us to carry out a usability test on a new product that they had developed for travel agents booking hotels online, called Rooms and More. The research was carried out with travel agents in 5 different countries, and helped provide insights into the usability and user experience of this new product.

This is what Travelport said about working with Webnographer:

Prior to launching a brand new product in the market to our existing customers, we really wanted to hear from them.  As always, you make some assumptions in your initial designs, but we needed a way to test things out that would allow us to make changes before we rolled it out to everyone, and had to react to their feedback.

Faced with the choice  between a simple questionnaire [that does not really deliver quality results] and lab work [which gives you quality, but also has the drawback of costs and really limiting the number of people you can get feedback from], we found that the Webnographer remote testing solution was the perfect fit!

We worked with Webnographer to run our customers through a series of tasks, and the ability to see their real-time feedback, and then play back their session was invaluable.

James and Sabrina not only helped us define and design the testing, so that it brought us actionable results, but also delivered a well thought-out, extensive report on the tail end – allowing us to really focus in on the key changes we need to make.  We liked it so much, we signed up for more.

Sincerely,

Brian Batts
Head of Product, Consumer & New Ventures
Travelport

 

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