The summer is over, the days are going by faster, and it's getting darker earlier and earlier. Autumn can be a little somber, but luckily you are living in Barcelona - a city full of activities to boost your autumn-mood and the morale at your startup. Together with Trip4real, we found 10 great Barcelona adventures to do if the autumn-gloom of dark clouds hits the offices of … [Read more...]
Get To Know Barcelona’s Newest Fund: mVenturesBCN And The Man Behind It
This week the news about the Mobile World Capital latest initiative - mVenturesBCN - was officially announced. Their goal is to draw international talent to Barcelona and to promote the creation of technology-based companies. They will also allocate €15 million into the launching of 110 startups over the next three years. Aleix Valls is the man in charge of the ambitious … [Read more...]
5 Startup Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter, Better and Brave
Music is a dear friend while traveling to work, whether you drive, take the subway, bicycles or use your legs. But what if I told you, that I could make that route to work even better with a podcast? The podcast industry (if you can call it a industry) is growing rapidly, and there is tons of great podcast related to startups, entrepreneurs and innovation. So instead of … [Read more...]
mVenturesBCN: Mobile World Capital’s New €15M Fund
mVenturesBCN is a Mobile World Captial-led initiative to draw international talent to Barcelona and to promote the creation of technology-based companies. They will also allocate €15 million into the launching of 110 startups over the next three years. The program has the support of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Barcelona's city council, the … [Read more...]
5 Ways To Reduce Your Employee Churn
How much of your precious time and money do you spend looking for new employees? Does your employee churn resemble something like that of Mass Mutual Life Insurance, viz. awful? Turning your employees over as rapidly as Amazon isn’t favorable to your bottom line, with experts estimating that it can cost up to as much as twice an employee’s salary to contract and train up a … [Read more...]
Barcelona Startup moCycl Is Ready To Roll
Those of us who were lucky enough have grown up watching Back To The Future , will never be truly happy until we have a flying hover board, and not one of pure mockery. We are slowly getting there with works in progress such as the Hendo Hover however the limitations are clear. As that miraculous day is still a fair way off, Barcelona startup, moCycl, has come up with with … [Read more...]
Barcelona mHealth Start-ups Take Lead In Healthcare Technology
There’s no doubt that Barcelona is making a name for itself as the Mobile World Capital. And Spain has been making news at the forefront of certain healthcare, including standing as the example for the world in organ transplants and being home to performed the world’s first Google Glass surgery, performed by knee replacement prodigy Dr. Pedro Guillen. It only makes sense that … [Read more...]
Real-Time 3D Platform CL3VER Partners Up With AWS Network
CL3VER, an innovative 3D technology company that we have covered before, announced today that it has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) as a Technology Partner. This move is a bold demonstration that interactive 3D Visualization for professionals Architects and Manufacturers can be provided via the cloud. “We are delighted to join the APN as a technology partner” … [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...]
Better Know A Startup: IceVault (@swissicevault)
Bitcoin. Even if you don’t fully understand how it works or what it even does, you’re probably aware that it’s kind of a big deal. If you want to know why you should care about Bitcoin then I’d check out this article from Marc Andressen. It’s hard to ignore the recent influx of large VC investments into Bitcoin companies such as Coinbase, BitPay, Circle, which is understandable … [Read more...]