Articles on startups, funding, technology and entrepreneurship from the itnig ecosystem.
Some of our hard-working people at itnig. If you’re running a startup, or working in one, you probably know how much work it takes to build a brand new product from scratch. It’s not unlikely that you’re reading this post by your desk at 10pm, just because you needed a break from your sweaty keyboard. But…
Read morePau Sabria from Barcelona co-founded Olapic which recently was sold to Monotype. A couple of weeks ago Olapic was acquired by Monotype for $130 million. For those of you that don’t know Olapic, is a startup that helps brands promote themselves with user-generated photos. Even though it’s not a registered Spanish company, the founders; Pau…
Read moreView of the Mallorca island early in the morning, after long hours of night sailing The other day a friend was arguing why he would never accept money from an investor to start a company. That would make him responsible and he would feel stressed by having to report to that future shareholder, specially when things…
Read moreDog years As someone said, startups years are just like dog years. So, 3 years might feel to be 21: you definitely have to assimilate fast and time is precious if you want to test and validate ideas. In 3 years we’ve been invested 2 times and we are preparing a new one. We built…
Read moreWe had the opportunity to talk to Luke Miller, CEO @Hitch, a company that recently raised 700K€ to keep helping companies grow and manage APIs. He explained to us what Hitch does, their target market, their take on the API market future, how they expect to massively acquire customers, how they convinced their VC to…
Read moreI’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…
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