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If you don’t feel comfortable with it, drop it
We’ve all experienced a proliferation of startup programs across the geography. With new programs come more mentors. Some are more valuable than others. And we all know this. There are two sides to mentoring. The advice received and the implementation of that advice. Most mentors will give contradictory advice. This
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Do you want to change your company’s corporate culture? Learn how now!
Hello, everyone! We’re very happy to announce that we’re partnering with our good friends from Improvement21 to deliver a new workshop on CultureHack in London! What is this CultureHack thing? Well, we will be focusing on Change Management, Culture improvement and Storytelling in a business context. So, essentially, how do
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The malleable nature of stories
One of the most powerful aspects of stories is their malleable nature. You can tell a story today and if the story is good enough, it will be told long after you created it. Sometimes the story is so good, it will be told for generations to come. What is
Anatomy of a perfect startup video pitch
Some days ago I bumped into what is, arguably, the best video pitch I’ve seen in a very long time. It’s such a fantastic video that I’m gonna use it as a case studio for everyone to learn from it. First 5 seconds, “Hi I’m Mike, founder of DollarShaveClub.com“. This
Making your startup’s story better
That’s the goal of our PR and communication workshop we recently did at TechHub, London. While building the Press42 platform we’ve realized that, not everyone understands how important doing a good communication is. It essentially comes to storytelling. To getting to the essence, to the human values behind your startup,
42 Beers comes for more
Hey all! We’re already finalizing the preparations for the next 42 Beers event in Madrid! Last time was a blast, but we believe we can do it much better. For that, we’re proud to announce we’re partnering with Proyectalis, who is going to be the main sponsor for the event.
Why we’re skipping SXSW
I’ve been going to SXSW two years in a row and I’m the first one to agree that it’s a terrific conference. Not only for the talks but mostly for the amazing people that flood the city during the Interactive festival. That said, the conferences has one problem. As a
Lisbon Sandbox Summit 2012
I just came back from one of the most interesting events I’ve attended in quite some time. It’s been 3 long years since I met Nico, one of the Sandbox network cofounders. It was at a pre-party at Leweb and I can still remember his words when asked what was
9 tips to deliver better pitches
Last week we did our first physical event, called 42 beers. I was a little bit nervous about it as it was the first time we where doing it and the concept is a little vague for most startups. Many of the startup pitching events I normally attend are mainly
42 Beers is about to launch
Hey guys! I’m super glad to announce we’re doing our first event next week (Jan 25th, 7:00pm)! And guess what? It’s called 42 Beers! Yeah!! So we finally secured a very cool venue and we have our initial lineup for the event. Two very cool startups with a very different
Are trendy startups harmful?
One of the things that have been bothering me this year at LeWeb is the whole conference theme issue. While I think it’s great to have it on a conference wide level, I don’t feel the same when it comes to the startup competition. This year LeWeb decided to use the
LeWeb Startup Competition Day 2
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
StartupBus arrives to LeWeb
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
