Doing Business in Portugal

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Doing Business in Portugal

• To GO or NOT to GO?

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Totally Awesome Software, Inc
Corporate Officers Justin Lafeen, David
Folcomer, Jared Wong, Rodney Earl

• Modularized manufacturing-software
• Competitive Advantage Rapid-Coding
• Methodology
• Operational within two months

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General Business Climate

• GNI per capita (US) 14,350
• 59 English fluency
• Cultural similarity to the United States
  (Hofstede)
• Corruption index similar to the US middle range
• Bribery index less than 5
• 20 Corporate Tax Incentives
• Decreasing inward FDI

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Industry Climate

• Pool of highly-qualified labor and effective
  research partnerships
• History of adopting new technologies
• State-of-the-art in telecommunications

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Strategic Recommendations
Outsourcing vs. Expansion
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The Outsourcing Scenario

• Very parallel to US
• No leverage of competitive advantage release of
  core competency
• No positive financial consequence
• Process control difficult to sustain abroad
  intellectual property risk

NO GO
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The Expansion Opportunity

• Culturally similar to the US allow for easy
  information transfer
• Proven success (Sun, etc.)
• Tap into the EU fairly easily
• Portugal leads EU in IT development
• Highly qualified labor
• Many opportunities for partnership

GO
Invest in Portugal Link
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Doing Business in Portugal

• Questions?