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11
Jan
by Alex aka Chief WOWness
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Name: Alex Barrera
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About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
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Data roaming is a problem. Specially if you are a geek. I believe the number one worry for most people that travel abroad on business is if the hotel has WiFi and if it does, will it work? There is indeed such thing as data addiction. We’re being push towards
18
Dec
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
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This guest post was written by Inês Silva, serial entrepreneur and business builder. She co-founded Startup X – a non-profit organization aiming to multiply the impact of entrepreneurs and startups all over the world. Managing Director of Startup Pirates – an international accelerator with operations in 11 countries, Managing Director of Startup Exchange Program and the Managing
It should come as absolutely no surprise that something as beautifully designed and as simple to use as Tictail was born in the industrial trendiness of Stockholm, Sweden. In its first 18 months of life, the online shop creation tool has been described by countless blogs and news portals as
05
Dec
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
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Why do start-ups get competitions so wrong? I’m in shock after preliminary evaluating the LeWeb start-up competition. For starters, three companies out of the sixteen had their landing pages in their local language, French, Italian and Spanish. The Italian and the French were, at least, also available in English, not
04
Dec
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
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I’m going to go ahead a make a quick prediction on the start-ups that might win the LeWeb competition this year. This is exclusively based on their webpage, my understanding of what they’re trying to do (sometimes quite liberal understanding), and the WOW factor they have. I’m declaring Agents of
03
Dec
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
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With few days for LeWeb Paris, I wanted to introduce you to this year’s startups selected for the official competition. We tend to cover this event every year but this time is specially interesting for the novelty of the theme, Internet of Things (IoT), which makes the competition much more
I have always been skeptical about crowd-funding when it comes to startups, and I’m not sure why exactly. I think I’ve always thought of it as being a messy and fragmented way of finding seed money. But when I think about it, my reaction to crowd-funding tells me that actually
20
Nov
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
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My good friends from Startup Compass strike back with a new fascinating report called: “The Startup Revolution: The Global Rise of Startup Ecosystems And How They Compare“. I just got a glimpse at the report and it’s definitely going to be huge for a lot of governments. I must say
You have to be at least 35 years of age to be the President of the United States of America. So far, the youngest US president at inauguration was Teddy Roosevelt at 42, and the median age (according to Wikipedia) is 54. Imagine if a 24 year old took office.
06
Nov
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
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Recently we got an email from an entrepreneur pitching us an interesting startup. It wasn’t by any means something disruptive or incredible but it definitely had value for the community. Sadly, he failed to understand the basic tenant of PR strategy: you can’t spam everyone. So the story went as
