Why are startups the pretty girls of the 21st century?
Globalization has brought us two pieces of news, one is good and the other is bad. The good news is that the market is now huge, worldwide, global; the bad news is that competition has also grown. Today it is impossible to compete alone; collaboration and transparency are the hallmarks of this turbulent...
My interview for Logic Crushing
A few days ago Isabel Ginés interviewed me for her Lógica aplastante. It was a real pleasure and this is what was published. Isabel Ginés Once a project and an entrepreneur's intention to obtain financing have been presented, what percentage of the decision to invest or not in it would you assign to the idea and what...
SocialSense: how to take a bite out of Google's business?
In the early days of last summer I was a bit idle, something that my hot mind does not allow easily. At that time I designed a business model similar to the Google advertising model but for social networks. I'm sure there are many people who have thought the same as me because we are all...
Generating content is like plucking an olive tree. The business is in the network you put underneath to catch the olives. If Google is the one who puts that network, you will be left with the crumbs; but if you are the one who puts the network you will make money, even if few people know where your business really is.
Ferran Adriá's Bullipedia and content-based business models
Yesterday I was lucky enough to see Ferrán Adriá live. As nobody is a prophet in his own land, Adriá is reviled by the Cainite half of Spain. The fact is that there is consensus to consider him the best chef in the world and one of the ten most innovative people on the planet. If we start looking for...
Innovate in business model, not in product
Today we innovate more in business model than in product or service, we are designing the new paradigms of business management You do not know what the market wants but you can learn from it Testing is today faster and cheaper than ever. Fail and learn. Prototyping is back in fashion, the Industrial Revolution is in full swing....
StartupSpain VI. A spark in the ecosystem
In this post I want to show, in broad strokes, what is our drawing of StartupSpain. A project with the body of a startup to help startups and that we hope to begin to materialize throughout the fall. The era of big public spending is over. Institutions and governments have to be cut back in order to reduce the...
Premium is not more, but better
A few days ago I had a discussion with José Carlos Cortizo and Víctor Peinado about what is a premium product in computing. About whether the user is willing to pay for more features or for more quality. At the last turn of the century a new business model emerged, the free one. Business model...
What if SaaS were the natural way out for open source software?
Ten days ago, at a lunch of illustrious geeks convened by the Great Didac Lee. Hector Perez commented that WordPress had released a paid service, consisting of hosting and blog maintenance packages. Hector, as we all do, took for granted that his fifteen table mates knew the news; in my opinion, it was a...
Tuplaza: having vs. sharing
Tuplaza is a new company that proposes a system to share your parking space, it is something similar to Fon's Bills, so if you leave home from Monday to Friday in your car at 8 in the morning and return at 8 in the evening, you leave an empty space that...