Dear Community,
I'm Mike and I've been helping CEOs and Leadership Teams to scale their businesses from 5 to $50M in the last 20 years as Fractional COO and Coach.
After multiple conversations with searchers and investors, I "bought" the ETA model and I'll do my search in Portugal, but I'm still not sure if I should go traditional or self funded.
Self funded is growing a lot in the US with the SBA Loan, but in Europe and Iberia, it is a very different environment.
Would love to talk with entrepreneurs with self funded experience in Europe, and even better, in Portugal or Spain. Please let me know if you know someone on your network that you could introduce to me.
Thanks so much and happy to help the community as --@----.com +###-###-####
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Side note, I live in the Alentejo region in a natural park, not much industry here. However, in terms of entrepreneurship, there's a huge opportunity, especially in traditional crafts, like wood work, metal work and even plumbers and electricians. Lots of house renovations going on in my area and there's a big shortage of expert labour. This isn't too relevant to your post, but maybe someone else reading this might find it an opportunity worth looking into.