(looking for the 2024 MWC Afterparties Guide? Click here.) "Because the real business of MWC happens at the bar" As the 2015 Mobile World Congress hurricane arrives in Barcelona in less than a month, we figured it was about time to put together our (2nd) annual hits list of events and parties taking place around the city in early March. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to … [Read more...]
A Million Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? A Billion Dollars – Kantox Soars To New Heights
Barcelona's darling fintech startup Kantox has hit an incredible new milestone this week as they surpassed the $1 billion mark of funds traded on their foreign exchange platform. A billion. That's a 1 with 9 zeroes after it: 1.000.000.000. Not too shabby for a startup that was founded in a 54-hour Startup Weekend challenge back in 2010. The headline capturing figure is … [Read more...]
5 Reasons WHY Tech Startups Should Choose Barcelona
5 Reasons WHY Tech Startups Should Choose Barcelona For Their Headquarters Many factors go into consideration when a startup chooses its working location; type of product, target market, available resources and the list goes on. These factors are exclusive to each startup and every renown startup-hub, such as London and Berlin, have a unique combination of what they have to … [Read more...]
Barcelona Startup Natural Machines Wants To Print Your Dinner
Remember that mind-blowing microwave styled device from Star Trek that turned small capsules into food? Well remember no more as Barcelona startup Natural Machines has just launched Foodini, a device that does pretty much that. The simple fact of the matter is that they are not from the future, but from Spain, and have applied the same technology used in 3D printing to make … [Read more...]
Meet The 11 Newest Startups To Enter The Conector Barcelona Accelerator Program
This week marks the official start of Conector Barcelona's 3rd acceleration program for Spanish startups since they launched in December 2013. The 2015 class will welcome 11 new projects into the program, although only 7 will actually reside in Barcelona. The remaining 4 will be mentored and monitored virtually across Spain. There's been a lot of buzz around the Conector … [Read more...]
Designing Wearable Technology That Matters
Those of us who work in the technology sector are all guilty of getting over excited about the next big thing. As the hype gathers pace, we mimic each other and repeat the same old jargon that everyone else is using. ‘Internet of Things’, ‘Wearables’, ‘Big Data’ are just a few of the current ones that are being repeated and shared incessantly across our many forms of media … [Read more...]
Meet The First 10 Teams Of Startupbootcamp IoT & Data Barcelona
The future of the Internet is emerging in Barcelona. It's like a movie but in real time. Located in the Growth Center mStartup floor the ten startup teams that have been selected are getting ready for the start of Startupbootcamp IoT & Data. The protagonists are fifty entrepreneurs with a "high level of motivation, dedication, willingness to work hard and the ability … [Read more...]
Get Your Game On at Startup Weekend Barcelona 2015
It's that time of year again! Back by popular demand after last year’s successful edition, where more than 100 people from Spain, UK, France, Germany and Portugal came together to build new companies, Startup Weekend Barcelona will host its 2015 event from the 13th to the 15th of February and it will focus entirely on gaming. Barcelona is making strong moves to become … [Read more...]
Barcelona mHealth Start-ups Take Lead In Healthcare Technology
There’s no doubt that Barcelona is making a name for itself as the Mobile World Capital. And Spain has been making news at the forefront of certain healthcare, including standing as the example for the world in organ transplants and being home to performed the world’s first Google Glass surgery, performed by knee replacement prodigy Dr. Pedro Guillen. It only makes sense that … [Read more...]
How To Create A Phantom Stock Option Plan For Your Startup
In the first post, How To Create A Stock Option Plan For Your Startup, we covered what Stock Option Plans (SOP) are, how they work, and how to use them to reward your employees and collaborators who take the leap of faith in your early stage project. It all seemed very nice and easy, right? But what happens if we want to award SOPs to our "helping hands" but we don’t want to … [Read more...]