Blog - Altar.io

Saying NO to a lead is hard but brings value. To the Lead.

Why, as a Product & Software Consultant working with startups, it’s important to get aligned with Founders’ vision to be able to deliver a great outcome. At Altar.io & 10kstartup, many times we challenge the founder’s assumptions that we’re told, and to be honest some people think...

‘Altar's team experience was key to help us define and close our MVP. They're exceptional in terms of product / design quality and very hands on and fast in delivering.’

Luca Comunian, Venga! Co-founder - UK

Why Lisbon is such a great place to develop your Startup

There are many obvious and not so obvious reasons for Lisbon to be standing out so much right now and attracting so many entrepreneurs. Here are a few of them that...

Why Senior Managers make great Founders and how they can improve

On why and how senior corporate managers can to disrupt her/his industry with a lean startup process, great product and technology. Older founders are usually wiser, more focused on achieving sales metrics...

A Real Options Model for Tech Startups Valuation

Looking to raise money and struggling to figure out your startup’s valuation? Valuations are created as a negotiation between the two parties (founding team and investors) on ratio between the investment...

60 Active Investors with focus on Marketplaces

Building a Marketplace Startup and looking for Investments? After you’ve launched you marketplace following these 8 key rules and generated little traction, it’s time to look for investors that’ll make you...

Eight steps to follow to build a successful marketplace

Looking to build a marketplace to bring a real disruption in the sector you want to tackle? There are some rules, coming both from best practices and personal experience (building marketplaces...

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Incorporating your Startup in EU? Overview on Tax Reliefs by Country

If you’re considering to setup your startup in EU, this post is for you. Every founder knows the SEIS for UK-based startups, but what about the other EU Countries? Some of...

Looking for Investors? Avoid these 7 types of bad Business Angels

You’re building your tech venture and looking for funding, but you’re still to early stage to approach VCs, so you decide to fill your next months’ calendar with meetings with Business...

The List of Most Active 150 Fintech Investors

We wonder why no one has ever shared a comprehensive list of Fintech investors. As you may know we’ve been operating in the fintech sector for the last couple of years...

7 Steps to Setup your Startup in Portugal

If you are planning to move to Lisbon, it’s worth noting that it is now ranked by Forbes as the 4th best global city for start-ups. Combined with a great environment (i.e....

Looking for Developers? Meet the 10 Developer Archetypes you will find

I’ve learnt one important lesson in my years of building different products with Altar.io & 10kstartup: Don’t look for the perfect developers, look for a balanced team. That’s our sweet spot for...

Daniel De Castro Ruivo

Proptech 3.0 and the rise of Crypto Securitization of Real Estate

Proptech or Real Estate Technology has had several stages in its yet short lived existence. The consensus is that soon we will have more startups that will automate several processes in...

Lessons I’ve learned being a Virgin mentor

When I’m questioned about the key traits of successful business partners, my advice is to look for a ‘mentorship-driven’ attitude when liaising with internal and external collaborators. Mentorship-driven attitude is a...

Web Summit 2017 > The Complete List of Side Events

Here’s the full list of side events – I’ll be updating it on a daily basis with new events that get published AND PLEASE, if you’re aware of some cool events...

How to build an effective MVP in 3 steps

Building a startup! You have an epiphany and say to yourself: This is a great Idea! How didn’t anyone think of it before? I have to build it! Now! Fair enough...

Daniel De Castro Ruivo

MVP, Functional or Non-functional? The Startup Early Stage Dilemma

If you are deciding what is your MVP there is a first question you must ask yourself: Should I make a Functional OR Non-functional MVP? The answer is not always easy....

Daniel De Castro Ruivo

How a Dev Agency can be your startup’s best friend

TLDR: Building your startup with an agency is a proven model. It costs more short term but, because they have multidisciplinary teams, they solve your go to market timing issue. This...

HUTSI > The Marketing Automation AI Tool We’re Creating From Head to Toe

Are you sure you’re being relevant every time you engage with your Customers/Leads? When we think about the future of marketing we must immediately think about being 100% relevant. Utopia or...

Daniel De Castro Ruivo

The Well-Performing Digital Team for your Agile Projects

Great! You’re adopting an agile methodology for your digital project, but you don’t know what’s the best structure and what are the characteristics of an effective team capable of executing and...

Powerful Analytics tool for Angular applications: Angulartics2

We’ve created the open source library Angulartics2 to plug into your Angular single page app (SPA) for analytics integration. It allows you to do event tracking and it is ready to...

Why your Startup should take 4–6 weeks to launch, not 4–6 months

Launching faster, in weeks rather than in months, can be crucial to prove or disprove a startup’s Value Proposition early, keep the team motivated and maintain the costs low. The launch of...

Venga! > Product Bible > UX / UI

This is a startup we’ve embraced in its first steps and we ended up doing its branding, product, development and go-to-market strategy. Venga!, like all of our projects, starts with a...

Daniel De Castro Ruivo

Intellectual Humility and the 7 traits of great co-founders

As a mentor @Virgin Startup, I’ve been asked many times which are, in my opinion, the most important characteristics to consider when looking for a co-founder. These are the 7 key...

What’s the Best Way to Build Your Startup? CTO, Freelancers, Agency?

You have a brilliant idea for a Startup, you want to build the app/software but you can’t code. You have 4 options: Learn how to code Find “The CTO” Hire developers Outsource with an agency...

Daniel De Castro Ruivo

What is 10kStartup.com

Spoiler: It’s a team making your MVP in 30 days for 10k at www.10kStartup.com First off a little about www.10kStartup.com. We are Daniel, Joao, Paolo and Andre and we are a...