Chicisimo : using PR for community-building

Yesterday, we had a session with Gabriel Aldamiz-echevarria, founder of Chicisimo. Gabriel was here to talk a bit in general about his entrepreneurial story so far, and then specifically about using PR for a startup. In this case, the success or failure of Chicisimo hinges on it's ability to build a...

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Inaki Arrola - Keeping it real, keeping it simple

We've all heard the old saw about common sense being fairly uncommon. Inaki Arrola, an eminently normal guy feels he's "strange" when compared to entrepreneurs. He just might be right...This session, we got some pretty grounded, real-life insights. 2 people in his family, buying the same car, comparing...

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Fund-raising, serial entrepreneurs and Kaka

Ka-ching !! the sound of money raining in from VCs....Yesterday, we had a session with Jorge Mata, a successful serial entrepreneur and investor, the man behind My Alerts and Berggi and many more. Jorge gave a talk on raising funds for startups.The talk was extremely interesting - the topic was money,...

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Masterclass - the business of blogging

Last week, we had the first 'live' session at our 'managing tech startups' class. We had Julio Alonso talk about bootstrapping, the attention economy and the importance of analytics in the attention economy. JULIO ALONSO and WEBLOGS SL A brief bio. Long story short, in 2005, Julio left a successful...

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Online news sites suck !!

Reading news articles online is a pain. There is hardly any content, you have click through a gazillion pages to get to the point, and the ads keep distracting you from the (largely useless) content.AdBlockplus is the solution, I hear you say...Hmm. Only partially. I'm using it, and I usually end up...

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