How eDreams Became the First Spanish Unicorn
Bernat Farrero interviews Mauricio Prieto, co-founder of eDreams, the first Spanish unicorn.
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The lean methodology doesn’t apply to branding — it’s a journey
Branding is no longer about creating a name and a logo, it’s about combining product and magic, according to Marc Lite, CEO and co-founder of Firma, Barcelona’s most famous branding studio. Marc has helped clients such as PepsiCo, Unilever and Esade, as well as local startups such as Badi and Bandit find their voice. The…
Read moreImprove your communication with humor
In case you wonder, this is a hypnotoad. Humor is a universal language, it has no limits, no boundaries. It is the channel to communicate with your customers and collaborators in a direct way and the most efficient transport for your ideas to go around the world. In the ever-growing ocean of content that is…
Read moreHow I Got Hired & Ditched By UBER
This 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…
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Undressing a CTO and how to become one
Do you want to become a Chief Technology Officer, or are you just curious about the role? If you want your keyboard to remain your closest friend, you can stop reading right here, being a CTO is much more than just being a talented developer. But if you want to get some insights from three…
Read moreHow EDpuzzle Went Straight To Silicon Valley Without A Single Line Of Code
Barcelona startup EDpuzzle went through Y-combinator’s Edtech program imagine K12. A lot of Spanish entrepreneurs go to the US to expand their markets. It’s normal, it’s the right thing to do for most companies. But usually you take with you a portfolio of achievements and milestones from the country you started up in. Not EDpuzzle, according…
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Hacker Bootcamps VS. Universities: What to choose and what's in it for the future?
Hacker schools or bootcamps are getting more and more popular. You’ll learn a programming language in 2–3 months, and you’re more or less guarantied a full-time well paying job. If you compare this to signing up to a four-year degree at a University and getting tons of study loan, the short-cut through a hacker school…
Read moreitnig exclusive: Talking with Olapic founder Pau Sabria after the $130 mill acquistion
Pau 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…
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Interview with Luke Miller, CEO @ Hitch
We 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 moreInterview with Oriol Vila, CEO @Holaluz
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…
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