
WELCOME TO
THE BEST WORKING ECOSYSTEM FOR STARTUPS EVER
starting port
WHAT IS IT?
“Those crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.” Steve Jobs
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The Starting Port is first of all a reaction to a corporate world where numbers are first and people are last.
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Our answer: to build a WORKING ECOSYSTEM FOR ENTREPRENEURS where a group of interconnected buildings are designed towards creating the perfect work-life balance based on 2 pillars:
motivation and health - that's where the drive comes from and the solution to the execution problem.
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This will be the World's First Business Incubator where the main focus is on all the people involved: the workers, the startup'ers and the investors.
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We believe that
FOCUSING ON PEOPLE IS BY FAR THE BEST WAY to promote productivity and profits.

FOR WHOM?
STARTUPS
THESE ARE OUR CLIENTS.
These are the idiots, the game changers and visionaries who will change the world and enjoy the ride while making the most out of all the working (and living) conditions provided at the Starting Port. If IT'S ALL ABOUT THE EXECUTION then we choose to focus on the executioners.
INVESTORS
ALSO OUR CLIENTS but most of all partners who belive that the right conditions, education and support are what transforms an idea into a project and into a successful and profitable company. At the Starting Port we turn 100:1 'betting' ratios into logical, measurable and continuously supported investments.
workforce
THESE ARE OUR HELPERS the well motivated happy people that will probably enjoy the ride the most. They will be teachers, menthors, coaches, students... and partners on both the working and the benefittting part of it...
They will learn that life and work can mingle and be one and the same - but in a good way.
how?

Motivation is everything... and so is discipline. We know human beings struggle with maintaining focus. Therefore, we have studied and researched how and why people fail. And it's mostly about discipline.
We therefore developed a program that aims for the continuous growth for both the mind and the body. Focusing on each person's well being is the best investment we can think of for steadily increasing happiness, commitment and profits.
A group of interconnected buildings is surrounded by a garden designed for meetings, exhibits, presentations and constant mingling.
Inside, we'll have the perfect business support: reception, meeting rooms, legal and accounting services and a direct link to investors and a resident team that links it all together... everything is available so clients can focus on getting their work done, allowing each person to focus on what they're good at.
We provide every single thing you need during the day. Starting with a presentation theatre, a restaurant and a coffee shop, a space for reading, a workout port... we thought about everything.
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No more need to worry about picking up the kids, or what they are learning nowadays. We'll also teach them all the things they should learn in school... We even considered the day to day errands: groceries? picking up the laundry? Consider it done.
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Check out the details for the 18 spaces below:

Includes: - Big office spaces with no walls so everyone feels the constant entrepreneur vibe and shares the knowledge - Smaller more private rooms for those moments where you just need the peace and quiet - Also including a permanent IT team for 'never welcome' but 'always there' issues

This will be the Port's nerve center where an on-call team will always be there to help each resident startup. Starting with legal and accounting issues and going from the approval meeting to every other step of the way, this team is there to help with: the starting plan, the presentation events, the follow up, the financing and the linking to investors, and on a more personal level, by coaching each person making sure the executive and personal goals are always on track.

Probably the most useful educational contents you have ever witnessed - clear, concise and delivered in a practical way. Here, each and every user - from entrepreneurs to employees - will learn all the 'arts and crafts' about business management and human interests and behaviour. Here are a few of the mandatory subjects: sleep management, how to manage a meeting, time management, creating and running a company, meditation, digital marketing, amongst others. Because businesses are run by people.

After our team working at the Starting Port, our resident team of investors will be the main interested in helping and seeing each startup evolve and reach their targets - with both financial support and advice from the trenches.

For Steve Job's like meetings and walks outdoors, the Outside Port is there to link all the buildings together as well as providing a space for outdoor activities and, of course, the Friday afternoon Parties. It will also be the home of he Barbecue Nights and the stage for environment friendly presentations.

This is the presentation room for projects made indoors and outside the Port. Mandatory presentations for all startups so all the knowledge is shared and feedback happens more and in a natural way. It will also be a larger room for the Learning Port and can also be rented for other outside events.

Where all meals are divided and presented according to their nutritional contents and according the next (or previous) activity... Taste and function working together once again towards productivity. Also available for the general publci.

A coffee house open 24/7 for meetings, creative work outside the office... Again, everything (well, except the coffee) is thought and delivered in a way that will make all its users benefit from nutritional contents. Also available for the general public.

"You are what you read" Inside and outside reading spaces as well as free (yet mandatory) books for everyone. Also available for 'outsiders' on a rent a book program.

Again, a gym with a twist. This is the Workout Port where functional and diversified trainings are available (and mandatory) for all as a sound mind only works in a sound body. Also available for people outside the Port as an external business.

Welcome to the perfect company! We all need help in managing our guests, our calls, booking meetings and getting our errands done.

If we still need formal meetings, let's make the most of it: 2 smaller standing up meeting rooms and a bigger one for video conference. The trick is: through the APPort each meeting must follow a list of themes to discuss along with a predefined schedule for each. And the users can only book the next meeting after inserting the outcome of each subject.

We all need to let go sometimes. This is a room where you can smash things up instead of telling that client what you really think... You can also play video games or just chill out for a few minutes.

A smart, greener, car and bike Park for everyone where the closest places only open later so sleepy clients get the closer spots. Can also be managed independently as side business.

Built for Port users' kids aged 4 to 12 years old. The goal is to provide the education that should be taught in schools but isn't it, in the way it should always have been delivered - through projects and games. Coding, politics, money management, entrepreneurship, nutrition, workouts... Working after school hours, for children aged 4 to 12 years old. Also run as a separate business with benefits for Port users.

A small shop for all Port staff and entrepreneurs selling basic necessities, healthy food and beverages, and Port merchandising. Online shopping using the APPort also available. A business rfor the general public with benefits and discounts for all Port clients.

Serviced studios including furniture, electricity, water, wi-fi, tv, cleaning, breakfast at the Food Port, laundry. For the general public with discounted rent prices for Port clients and guests.

A business in itself but mostly for Port users. One more way to stretch people's time. Also providing fast automated service for Workout Port users taking the hassle of gym clothes out of the way.
"If you start off with a happy, well-motivated workforce, you're much more likely to have happy costumers.
And in due course, the resulting profits will make the shareholders happy."
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Richard Branson

Through the Port APP, all the clients can see, book and manage every event; book meetings; check their calendars and emails; read the Port news; check and book the classes for both the Learning and the Junior Port; book a table for lunch; shop online from the Shopping Port; check the Workout schedules; book an errand; rent a Port Studio; rent a car; and access the Music Port playlists.

A continuously updated group of playlists for every hour and job of the day - whether it is relaxing, concentrating, creating and even having a quiet meal, celebrating a milestone or just as background for a meeting...

Running errands and waiting in lines is a thing that no Port client must ever endure again. With the Messenger service someone will get that missing document for your company or pick up the kids from school or even get you that special dessert you need for tonight's party...

The resident proud team of cleaners... Can you work in the dirt?

Just in case...