Replica of Portuguese tram serves national delicacies in London

A replica of Lisbon’s number 28 tram (original shown above)  is becoming a main talking point in the UK after two budding Portuguese entrepreneurs came up with the idea to create the replica and serve traditional Portuguese coffee and pasteis de nata tarts from it.

The ‘nata28’ mini-tram is the brainwave of Portuguese nationals Jaime Silva and Nuno Patrício, who took an Italian motorised tricycle to Leeds (UK) to have it transformed into something resembling a quaint Lisbon tram.
A coffee machine, a glass box in which the custard Pasteis are kept warm and a till were installed in the back of the tricycle and for the past few months ‘nata28’ has been selling close to 600 of the typical Portuguese pastries every weekend.
Nata28 is now a hit among the citizens of Camden Town, London, and has become a bit of an attraction in itself.

Portugal News 9/5/2013

The place to grow!

If you haven't yet come across this video, it's well worth a look.

It's encouraging  to see the new media being used to counteract the less positive items which have been appearing in the international press during the economic crisis.

CV dos and don'ts

Useful article recently in LinkedIn: The 3 Biggest Resume Mistakes

Some of the suggestions in comments below Rajat Taneja's article  are also worth a look.

Meanwhile, the CV above (found on the internet) has an impressive layout.

Entrepreneurial investors and business founders

Entrepreneurs can be divided into two kinds of business builders: those who actually found new companies and those join and build up a new business early in its life.
Lately some of the big names in the field have been rather unkind to each other in the social media as Michael Lazerow relates in a Linked-in article

Entrepreneurs' difficult childhoods

Although I haven't yet seen any solid data on this, there is some anecdotal evidence that successful entrepreneurs are more likely to have had a traumatic childhood than the rest of the population.
The Entrepreneurs Wound is a BBC radio program about this.

"Strategy management can kill innovation"

3M's  Post-it guru questions the application of 6 Sigma quality and strategy management tools to creative processes:

Teleworking backlash

Yahoo has been telling staff to get back to the office.
Maybe teleworking isn't the future after all.
Read the BBC's take on the story.

Teleworkers report having more time to spend with the family and increased productivity. Photo: Eve Fisher

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/telecommuting--the-future-aint-what-it-used-to-be-20130225-2f10u.html#ixzz2MmmnuKsZ

Language makes you poor

A Yale professor’s research suggests speaking English or European Portuguese can make you poor.  

But  speaking Mandarin or Brazilian Portuguese can help make better financial choices!

BBC report:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21518574 

Original paper:

http://faculty.som.yale.edu/keithchen/papers/LanguageWorkingPaper.pdf

Ending Poverty - What Engineers Can Do

Interesting analysis in this TEDx talk from Professor James Trevelyan of the University of Western Australia.