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Ficha Técnica
Titulo / Title

Guia do Empreendedorismo

Colecção / Collection

Opúsculo da SEDES

Editora
/ Editor

Rua Duque de Palmela, 2, 4º Dir.; 1200-097 Lisboa; Portugal

SEDES – Ass. para o Desenvolvimento Económico e Social www.sedes.pt Coordenação
/ Coordination

SEDES

Autores / Authors

Vários

Design Capa
/ Cover Design

REDWEB design

Paginação
/ Design

REDWEB design

Impressão / Printing

Conselho Gráfico

Língua / Language

Português

Dimensões / Size

14 x 19,8 cm

Tiragem / Print Run

1.000 exemplares

Conclusão do Estudo
/ Study Conclusion

Maio de 2007

Publicação
/ Publication

Maio de 2007

Edição / Edition

2ª

www.sedes.pt

www.redweb.pt www.redweb.pt GUIA DO EMPREENDEDORISMO
PORTUGAL 2007

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Prefácio
I am honoured to have been invited to address the
SEDES 2007 conference on Entrepreneurship in
Lisbon and to write this preface.
Twenty years ago, I was a criminal defence lawyer in
London. After working in that profession for 5 years I discovered I was doing a job that I didn’t particularly like. Dissatisfied with my career and life, I decided to change things, first by re-educating myself, and second by emigrating to New
Zealand, then Australia. I had suffered what American business author Michael
Gerber, describes in his excellent book, The ‘E-Myth’ as an ‘entrepreneurial seizure’! Today I have the privilege of consulting with and speaking to people in organisations around the globe, doing what I enjoy most and living in Australia, - a great part of the world.
I’m not unusual. There are thousands of people everyday who have ‘entrepreneurial seizures’. Not all of them succeed. But those that do see opportunity and are determined to succeed in the face of uncertainty.
In my adopted country of Australia, more and more people are interested in owning their own business. Government figures indicate that small businesses there make up 95% of