As a startup founder your main focus is to develop your business. During the first stage, often called pre product/market fit, you want to iterate as fast as possible: on the product, on the acquisition channels, on your pricing model. The objective is to learn as much as possible from your customers. When you get your product/market fit, you want to focus on growing your team … [Read more...]
Julien Was Tired Of Bad Coffee And Founded Daysk, Co-Working By The Hour
Ever been in need of a good place to work for couple of hours, and even after trailing Google and TripAdvisor, not being able to find a suitable place? Two French founders in Barcelona had the same problem, and recently launched Daysk, the platform that lets you book a workspace by the hour. It also lets co-working spaces and cafés add free space on the platform, for … [Read more...]
How Subasta de Ocio Became Spain’s Fastest Growing Startup (Almost) By Coincidence
Subasta de Ocio has taken the Spanish love for good bargains and the lottery, and made it into a rapid growing business, serving not only the people, but businesses in the country as well. The company was founded in Barcelona in 2012 by two Dutch guys, Marc Zinck Stagno and Mark Knapen, and the current board also include Julian Gardner and Roel Spee. Subasta de Ocio have … [Read more...]
Agroptima Closed €700.000 To Develop Their Farm-Management App
It's not the most mainstream app, but Agroptima has developed a service that help farmers manage their work easier. The app records the farmers daily work like planting, apply pesticides, harvesting, etc, and does this without the need for coverage. The Barcelona startup hopes to reach a nationwide customer base with this recent funding of €700.000 from investors like … [Read more...]
Barcelona Startup Thingthing Keyboard App Closed €350.000
Thingthing is the keyboard app that wants to boost your productivity, letting you attach documents, photos, calendar availabilities and more while chatting and emailing - all of it inside your keyboard. The company just closed a round of €350.000 from VC's such as Saatchinvest, Pioneers Ventures, Seedcamp and Simile Venture Partners, but also from several angel … [Read more...]
Bootstrapping TutoTOONS Has 100 Million Reasons To Be Happy
The Barcelona-based game house TutoTOONS has reached their biggest milestone so far - 100 million downloads of their games. The startup has bootstrapped its way from the start in Lithuania, where they launched (and have their HQ), and now two and half years later, they're still without funding, but still going strong. Since early 2014 the game house has released over 200 … [Read more...]
Why This Vice President Left J.P. Morgan To Build Fluttr: “LinkedIn With A Heart”
Most of us have dreams or adventures we hope to carry out during our lifetime, but often times the responsibilities of our daily life and current career track gets in our way. But some ideas are just too good to let go, too exciting to put off doing any longer. Amleto Montinari had an idea like this, and left his jet-setting life as Vice President of Strategy at J.P. … [Read more...]
Virtual Personal Trainer – Mammoth Hunters Closed A Round Of €324,210
The round was closed through the crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, and went better than the founders expected. The startups goal was to raise €300.000. Mammoth Hunters offers a personal trainer through their app, which is especially designed for people that have little or no time to go to the gym. This last round is the second of two funding rounds for the startup, … [Read more...]
MyTwinPlace Closes €750.000 From BlaBlaCar Founder And Other VC’s
MyTwinPlace is a global community of home owners who exchange nights with other members of the community. There is no money exchanged between the home-owners, but you get points for renting your home to others, which you later use to rent other homes around the globe. The startup recently closed a round of €750.000 from big VC's such as Inveready and Sabadell Venture … [Read more...]
The Crowded Boat Rental Market – CEO: “someone will die”
A market that has been growing more and more crowded the last years in is the on demand marketplace for boat-rentals. There is a long history for yacht rentals in southern Spain, and there are hundreds of small companies controlling a small amount of boats. However, the last years there has been big changes in the sector, and startups as Boatbureau and Nautal has totally … [Read more...]