Articles on startups, funding, technology and entrepreneurship from the itnig ecosystem.
I’m faced with a design challenge everyday. Sweet! I like it. It’s fun and rewarding to find a solution, if that’s your thing. Like working on a puzzle: finding all the pieces, recognizing what’s their right position, joining them one by one, and finalizing with a composition that only makes sense when everything is together.…
Read moreThis is not a picture of me. There is a lack of engineers everywhere, but finding talent is especially hard in the Bay Area. I’m from Spain but 5 years ago I went three months to SF, to attend a couple of conferences and visited some friends.At that time I was trying to start something, but…
Read moreStartups have different business models, but all of them are in a situation where budgets are tight. In other words, accounting turns into a very important element. Hopefully these tips will help you take better business decisions, as the flow of income and expenses are something all entrepreneurs should worry about. To keep your startups accounting updated…
Read moreAccording to the internet it’s thousands of startup accelerators programs & incubators out there, looking for the most talented startups to accelerate. What started with Y-combinator back in 2005, was followed by Techstars, 500 startups and a couple of thousand other organizations which now all are competing for the same talent, according to Angel Garcia,…
Read moreThe first accelerator as we know it was Graham’s YC in 2005, followed by the franchise Techstars (2006), Seedcamp (2007), 500 Startups (2010), up to 1.600 currently in Crunchbase , along with incubators, seed funds, investment clubs, pitch forums, bootcamps, weekend hackathons, public and corporate incubators, … they are all different models that systematically look for winner…
Read moreFour or five moments, that’s all it takes. To be a hero. Everyone thinks it’s a full-time job. Wake up a hero. Brush your teeth a hero. Go to work a hero. Not true. Over a lifetime, there are only four or five moments that really matter. — Colossus, Deadpool I love that quote, so much…
Read moreProducts, services, delivery-, wholesale- or resale-businesses, software as a service, subscription based models — all business models have one thing in common: they are about a market that demands something, and this market consists of people. Which means whatever you are offering, to make it a success it needs to be a good fit with what people…
Read moreCo-founders of Factorial Pau Ramon Revilla (CTO) and Jordi Romero (CEO). There’s a new startup in town, and we’re lucky to say it’s an itnig company. Factorial wants to make the HR role both easier and less time consuming through their cloud-based HR platform. Factorial has already started on-boarding several Barcelona companies to their platform. Many…
Read moreI usually start by saying that I’ve been a designer for the last 15 years, UI designer. “What’s UI?” I get that question a lot, can’t help but smile. “User Interface,” I respond, trying to answer the question in a few words, “is the visual part of an app. You see, the engineers will write the…
Read moreLately I’ve been hearing people talk more and more about international investors, and how they’re increasingly looking to Barcelona for interesting projects. These rumors confirms a feeling I’ve been having for quite some time. It’s always scary to predict the future, but sometimes you just see a pattern so clear that you need to share…
Read moreThe Catalan organization CECOT representing over 6000 entrepreneurs, awarded itnig startup Parkimeter with the award for best new company. Once every year CECOT hosts what they call “the night of the entrepreneur” in Barcelona. Here they award different kind of local entrepreneurs, and this year it was co-founders of Parkimeter, Jordi Badal and Ferran Gatius…
Read moreThere are few startups or young companies that doesn’t have a blog these days. We all know the benefits of producing content in one shape or another, but exactly how to do it the right way? There are several ways to establish yourself as a quality content provider, and some things you need to avoid…
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