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...]
5 Reasons To Set-Up Your Dev Shop In Barcelona
Are you thinking about moving your dev shop to Europe? If so, I've listed 5 reasons as to why Barcelona should be high on your list. And no, they are not all 'drinking Sangria in the sun'. 1. Barcelona is awesome I’ll start by stating the obvious and I am by no means what someone might call biased. For any of you that currently live in Barcelona or who have traveled here, you … [Read more...]
No Excuses: Get FREE Expert Feedback On Your Project At The Mobile Jazz UI/UX Workshop
Mobile Jazz, arguably the most talented design and development team in Barcelona, are opening their doors for a Web UI/UX Workshop on Thursday November 6th. Mobile Jazz is the well-known and highly respected digital team behind award winning mobile and web projects. One of their mobile apps has over 100M users worldwide - yes, that's a ONE, with 8 ZEROES behind it! What … [Read more...]
Why The Shareholders Agreement Is The Most Important Step For Early Startups
The road to startup success is paved with failure. Sometimes it's outside of your control; wrong market, bad timing, lack of funding, poor leadership, but in my experience, all too often the reason startups meet their demise is due to internal relations. Now, lets picture your start-up. Of course you probably don't have any money, therefore you don't need to put all those … [Read more...]
To Do or Not To Do, There Is No Trying
The following is a guest post created by the team at Tetuan Valley Startup School Barcelona, a 6-week program for young wanna-be-entrepreneurs who want to experience what is it like to build a startup. Many of us are struck with one of those ideas that we are convinced will change the world. We can't wait to make it happen! But... but where do we start? What comes next? Most … [Read more...]
Content Strategy For The Web: An Interview with Kristina Halvorson
I first picked up Content Strategy For The Web in the summer 2012 and immediately I was hooked right in. My eyes were suddenly opened to the tangled mess the internet had become and that, when it came to companies creating content online, common sense had left town a long time ago. Fast forward to early 2014, when I learned Confab Europe would be hosted in Barcelona, I jumped … [Read more...]
Heard@ Techscout 2014: Strategic Venturing and Innovation Excellence
An update on innovation strategy Another conference on innovation landed last month in Barcelona: the European Networking Group with its Techscout 2014: Strategic Venturing and Innovation Excellence. Open Innovation directors from large corporates as Nestle, Unilever, General Mills, Shell and DSM shared their experience. The central question was: are we entering innovation … [Read more...]
Heard@ Next Bank Europe: Disrupting The Banking Industry
Recently Temenos, one of the sponsors of the Next Bank Europe Conference, released a white paper on industry disruption in the banking sector. Their introduction depicts clearly the urgency to come up with new business models and value propositions. “Digitization is changing the industry’s dynamics. Cloud computing is lowering the cost of doing business. Improvements in … [Read more...]
Is Learning To Code Really That Important?
This is a guest post by Borja Garcia de Vinuesa, Head of International Business Development at Ironhack. At Ironhack, we hear about new ideas that come to life and revolutionize a market or industry almost every day. What is behind these new products? Is there any trait shared by all of them? There certainly is! Being on-line 24/7 gives us the advantage of expanding … [Read more...]
The potential of 3D printing
Last week we talked about the emerging technology of Augmented Reality; the technology of this week is 3D printing. Looking at potential, 3D printing is expected to be much more promising with a market up to $550M - $650M per year in ten years time (McKinsey / Gartner). The fields of application are enormous: fashion, manufacturing, toys, medical, architecture, food, retail, … [Read more...]