Enten in Lisbon Update!

🤔 What did our time in Lisbon teach us? 🤔

🤝 Yesterday brought to a close Enten’s exploratory mission to Lisbon. Over the last few days, we attended:
- A Lisbon Digital Nomads event at Fintech House.
- A crypto social at the The Block Lisboa.
- And a Mindstone AI event at the Impact Hub Lisbon (great space!).

🗣 We met loads of really interesting people and heard a variety of things about:
- What makes a good founder and the ups and downs of the journey (Darius Mora).
- Why there’s been a slight backlash in Lisbon against digital nomads.
- AI innovations around disinformation (Newsroom AI), product design (João Tomaz) and interactive art (204 no-content).

💯 People we met continued to be enthusiastic about Enten’s value proposition and we heard from separate people that:
- Friends within their network had wanted to do something similar but hadn’t known how to make it happen.
- That the time was absolutely ripe for this sort of thing and that there was likely a wide appetite for it among CTOs and devs.
- And that our core hypotheses (around equity incentives being redundant and the royalty model a major improvement) were on the money, in their experience.

❤️ So there was a lot to take heart from there, particularly in how Enten is matching broader, deeper trends around people seeking more entrepreneurial, independent and genuinely equitable forms of working collaboration. Our suspicion is that the next 10 years will see a total transformation in how people come together to get things done and that Enten can play a major role in that change. 🌀

🙋‍♀️ And we also picked up lots of really interesting ideas from the people we spoke to on how to build out our model next. A number of very generous people also volunteered their time for user testing and we hope to convert these folks into Enten evangelists in the near future! 🙋‍♂️

🇵🇹 💫 More widely, on Lisbon, it seemed:
- Smaller than the London tech scene but more intimate and closely connected.
- Perhaps a little more open-minded, idealistic and less focused on ruthless commercial exploitation.
- To have a far higher proportion of women involved.

The lasting impression was of a slightly more relaxed, open and female-friendly scene than London, with a strong creative arts element to it as well as perhaps a better sense of balance but also lots of core innovation going on too.

🚀 It also seems that there is an audience and potentially a market out in Lisbon for us so I suspect we will return in the not too distant future! 🚀