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09
Dec
by Alex aka Chief WOWness
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Name: Alex Barrera
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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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Yesterday I attended the LeWeb Startup Competition Day 1, today we finished with all the startup pitches. I have to say I was surprise by a couple of startups, but all in all, I underline what I said yesterday, the quality was so-so. Most of the startups don’t seem to
08
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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Among the many startup related things this year, the StartupBus is one that’s really cool. A week ago I wrote about this program which I saw the first time during SXSW this year. The bus arrived 2 days ago and since then their buspreneurs have been running all around the
08
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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No peoples think this is good
Yesterday I had the chance to watch half of the startup competition pitches at LeWeb. I really don’t want people to get offended but some of the presentations where rather weak. Having judges like David Hornik from August Capital and failing to talk about your business model or what problem
07
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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No peoples think this is good
Hi everyone, so I’m here at LeWeb covering all startup related things. So, the first thing I did was to go and talk to the Startup Competition finalists. As I don’t have their emails I went through their websites and started either contacting them through their contact form (if they
23
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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I’m getting tired of explaining to people why, if you’re a startup, you should be pitching in English, even in your home country. I’m so tired that, even though this has been stressed out by my friends Mike Butcher from Techcrunch Europe or Paul Papadimitriou from Constellation Research, I’m going
24
Oct
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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Everyone that either has a startup or works in this space knows that entrepreneurs are now trendy. So trendy that most governments have made it their own personal crusade to swing the entrepreneur flag and show the world they’re doing something about it. While I’m always a trusting fellow, truth been told,
29
Aug
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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As many of you know, I’m a huge startup lover and I also love academia. That’s why, the Startup Genome project has me amazed! Someone finally started tackling an analyzing why startups fail and how to fix it (we are working on our side of that equation at Press42). Some months ago,
