Fest-UP was Barcelona's first-ever, crowdsourced startup festival - an open platform for the entire Barcelona Startup Ecosystem to share their knowledge, showcase their projects and make new connections within our vibrant entrepreneurial community. All in all, more than 3.000 people attended at least one of the 45 events held in 22 locations across Barcelona - all focused … [Read more...]
The Jobfluent Startup Job Fair Is Back In Barcelona
It's that time of year again. The Jobfluent Startup Job Fair is back next week for their 5th edition in Barcelona. This edition features more than 150 jobs from over 30 organizations in Barcelona - mostly high-growth tech startups. It's a great opportunity to interact directly with the decision makers of these growing companies and entrance for job seekers is free. As … [Read more...]
‘Founders’ Meetup: Tech meets Bizz @ ESADE
ESADE is hosting the 'Founders' Meetup: Tech meets Bizz" for people wanting to start their ventures. If you are a developer you can meet co-founders with a business background. If you have a business background you can find developers to get started. If you have no business idea, but like to join a new venture, you can join in, too. … [Read more...]
Fest-UP Service Jam Day 1: First Impressions
Each year, more than 262,000 tons of food goes to waste in Catalonia. Swapsee, the community marketplace for talent, along with Claro Partners, a Barcelona-based business innovation and service design firm, in collaboration with EatWith and le18 have organized a Service Jam to tackle this issue head-on during Fest-UP. Yesterday, on Monday, May 5th the first-ever session of … [Read more...]
Meet The 40 Barcelona Startups Presenting at the 2014 Fest-UP Startup Expo
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FestUp! Talks About Creative Technologies, Music and Business @ Itnig
Perhaps because creativity is always intrigued by new toys to play with, the music industry has been one of the firsts to be entirely disrupted by technology. Suddenly everyone became a DJ - and a photographer -, Justin Bieber could start up thanks to YouTube and Napster has changed how we think about the ownership and value of music forever. Volatile times such as this mean … [Read more...]
FestUp! Poker Night @ MOB
Do you think you are lucky? Or that you have a great poker face? Maybe in true startup fashion you don’t mind losing as long as you enjoy the game? Wednesday evening the basement of MOB opens up for a night of gambling in true prohibition style. Charleston and swing, silent movies and cigars and, of course, chips clinging together and the sound of shuffling cards. Apart … [Read more...]
Why FestUp? – A Subjective Account From The Organisers
When the idea of organising a startup festival in Barcelona first came up, we thought long and hard about the reasons. Why should we get ourselves into such a messy and hard work? Why would anyone participate? What is this thing called an "ecosystem" we are trying to build? Barcelona has wonderful ingredients to become a blooming startup hub of the Mediterranean. A … [Read more...]
Fest-UP! Startup Expo
So here it is, one week from today, Barcelona will launch its first-ever crowd-sourced startup festival: Fest-UP! May 5th – 10th. What started as an idea only a couple of months ago, has now evolved into a citywide, week-long Festival that is truly uniting the Barcelona Startup Community. With more than 45 exciting events, 20 different host venues and 50 registered startups, … [Read more...]
Airbnb: An Absolute Giant – The Sharing Economy with Jeroen Merchiers.
Talk: Airbnb, An Absolute Giant. The Sharing Economy with Jeroen Merchiers. Speaker: Jeroen Merchiers Jeroen Merchiers, Country Manager of Airbnb. He was born and raised in Belgium but has been living in Spain for 10 years. He graduated as an Industrial Engineer and has an MBA from IESE. Jeroen started his career in management and technology consulting by managing several … [Read more...]