I’m Oriol Vila, I founded holaluz.com 5 years ago, I’m a Civil Engineer, I studied an executive MBA in 2009 and there is where I met my partners Carlota Pi and Ferran Nogué and decided to found the company. Can you briefly give us the Holaluz pitch about what it does and how it differentiates…
Read moreLately has been a lot of debating and hype around Microservices. But what are microservices? Why is there that amount of noise around a term? Hope this introductory blog post can help you understand what is a microservice and introduce you into the topic. Photo by Glen Carrie What are Microservices? Paraphrasing Martin Fowlers in his article…
Read moreMany business schools tell us that having a balanced mix of professional profiles in a startup team is key to maximize your chances of success. This is true. However, you need to know what skills does your startup need in order to validate a value proposition. Since starting up nowadays involves development of some kind, a CTO is…
Read moreAn interview with Laura Fernandez, Rails Girl + back end developer atCamaloon. Rails Girls is a non-profit movement founded by Linda Liukas and Karri Saarinen in Helsinki, where the 1st workshop took place in 2010. Since then, this peer-run (and free!) workshop, that aims to “give tools for women to build their ideas”, has been organized by local teams in over than 200…
Read moreAlthough technology arrived later to agriculture than to other industries, the fields are catching up. In recent years, more startups and venture capitalists have set their sights on this ancient industry, and innovation is already changing the rules of the game for farmers. Fact is that agriculture is one of the biggest markets in the world and…
Read moreLast Wednesday, February 18 Marc García, co-founder & CEO at Viuing, was interviewed at the 2nd CEO talks of the year, organized at itnig by our colleagues from Delvy Law & Finance. Below you can find the video of the interview, which was conducted in Spanish by Josep Navajo, lawyer and co-founder at Delvy. About Marc García and Viuing: Marc García describes himself…
Read moreStartups in Spain tend to trivialize the importance of the financial management of its businesses, and often look down on it, considering it a “simple number producing” activity related to “gestorías” (agencies that undertake administrative work). But companies who care for having a first class finance management from the beginning have some clear strategic advantages: Efficiency: Releases time…
Read moreVerónica Torras is the founder of Womala, a mobile app for women in the area of Fitness & Health, and expert in business models, and a customer development and lean startup evangelist and practitioner. Starting from the beginning, Verónica got into the business model generation and lean startup methodologies through Alex Osterwalder (author of the Business Model Canvas),…
Read moreSpain has become a very interesting place for foreigners to establish their businesses. They can find a solid entrepreneurial ecosystem, skilled partners and workers, and nice weather. All these elements are attractive enough to start an entrepreneurial adventure. In this article we are going to outline some of the basic requirements that everyone should have…
Read moreManaging a company’s presence in a business fair can be a lot of work (and stress) but certainly can be just as rewarding. There is no better place to get in touch with your target, especially if you are an ecommerce guy. But fairs are also a hostile place where too much is on display…
Read moreMost of us work in a startup environment or are in touch with entrepreneurs and groups of people creating synergies in similar situations. It all starts out with a first idea and countless days and nights discussing, sketching out and turning it over again. The first pioneer looks for other passionate entrepreneurs, for specialists in…
Read moreLast April I was sent from itnig to Krakow (Poland) to attend one of the best Ruby conferences in Europe: Railsberry. What I later discovered was that just a few days before Railsberry there was another really cool conference, organized by the same people, about mobile development. So there I went! I’m talking of course…
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