[French] Lisbon is a multicultural city, thanks in no small part to Portugal’s imperial past. It also offers a good quality of life (the beach is 10 minutes from the city centre) and a cost of living that is much lower than in other European capitals.Support for early-stage ventures is growing now that a cluster of incubator programmes is up and running.
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The world keeps talking about what’s happening in Lisbon. How can the underdog of startup hubs get so much attention? Forbes says Lisbon discovered its spirit of entrepreneurial adventure, the Financial Times compares Lisbon to San Francisco, Mike Butcher from TechCrunch has just been to Lisbon to get to know the startup scene and select startups for TechCrunch Disrupt, Tech.eu highlights a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Portuguese capital, the EU awarded Lisbon with the Entrepreneurial Region for 2015, while many foreign investors and entrepreneurs keep calling Lisbon, the new Berlin.
http://startupship.org/7-reasons-why-the-web-summit-2016-should-be-in-lisbon/
