If the "Startup Visa" did not exist it should be there, it is better to attract entrepreneurs than Chinese mafiosos or corrupt Brazilians. The idea is good, but it is regrettable that governments have only good ideas on the eve of thinking about what they are going to invent to get a good image.

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Let's hope now that the initiative does not give way to more companies like Marques Mendes and that the Startups are no longer a market to be explored by bankers commissioners, greedy, corrupt real estate and other opportunists. The truth is that Portugal is not the wonderful country and no bureaucracy that someone invented in the opening of the event and from the state services to the banks, through the telecommunications companies, there is a real proxenitismo in relation to the business initiatives.

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Read more (in portuguese): Manuel Caldeira Cabral, Minister of Economy