Many have compared the speculative bubble around the Bitcoin with the Dutch tulip crisis in the 17th century. The similarities are great, but the tulip bulbs at least served for something.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.

Closer exports 46% to Germany, Brazil, Macedonia, Malaysia, United Kingdom and Switzerland. According to Woitek Szymankiewicz, partner of this Portuguese company, the success beyond borders is based on two offerings: Evalyze (operations management platform that uses artificial intelligence to distribute tasks), and Data Science & Advanced Analytics services.

We call "intellectuals" to sociologists, artists and thinkers of nothing, and naturally and by contrast, we can only condemn those who decide to leverage their work and become entrepreneurs.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.

Democracy has been optimized by the growth of social networks. What each one of us can influence and the probability of generating an avalanche grew. Give a Facebook to everyone!
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.

Portuguese politicians have to transform 3 days of exuberance into 300 days of intelligence and start to love companies of all sizes as they fall in love with start-ups.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.

The nature of our democracy requires that the number of inches in the government employee's flat-screen TV overlaps the number of dead waiting for a surgery or in any other tragedy.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.