Articles on startups, funding, technology and entrepreneurship from the itnig ecosystem.
Nearly the whole Quipu team — a great bunch of people! For a startup every year is like little life, with new people, new features, new users and new challenges. The fourth year for Quipu has been, according to co-founder and CEO Roger Dobaño, the craziest in terms of changes. We’ve almost built an entire new engineering and design team and…
Read moreExponential growth is what most startups are searching for, and something most entrepreneurs never experience. Itamar Gilad has spent seven years at Google managing products at Youtube and Gmail and have in both cases experienced what most entrepreneurs are dreaming about: seeing growth in the hundreds of millions of users that genuinely love your product…
Read moreHave you ever had a pleasant conversation with a bot? Chances are high that you have, as chatbots are getting smarter and better at helping us deal with the products we’re dealing with everyday. Barcelona startup Caravelo is at the moment developing six chatbots for some of the biggest airlines in the world. The chatbots…
Read moreBranding is no longer about creating a name and a logo, it’s about combining product and magic, according to Marc Lite, CEO and co-founder of Firma, Barcelona’s most famous branding studio. Marc has helped clients such as PepsiCo, Unilever and Esade, as well as local startups such as Badi and Bandit find their voice. The…
Read moreEven though Jaime now is working on the VC side of the table, he assured me that he doesn’t wear a suit every day. There’s not a lot of information in English about the Spanish startup ecosystem out there, but there is one person that has dedicated half a decade to covering tech and startups in…
Read moreWhen your startup consists of you and your co-founder, it’s not that hard to shape the culture. Even though Typeform started with two co-founders , it has grown and in the last 18 months from 30 to 150 employees, and they have no intention to stop growing. So how are they keeping a healthy culture? It’s not a poster…
Read moreEven if you’e not a designer and never used design software before, you can still release products that do the job and are well designed. The following steps I’ll guide you through can be divided into three parts: Planning Designing Coding It’s far from a complete UX process, but it will allow you to take…
Read moreWe wanted to use the March edition of our monthly video podcast to put focus on the brilliant women founders in our startup ecosystem. Luckily we have many to choose from in Barcelona, so we invited business angel and co-founder and CEO of B-Wom Helena Torras, co-founder of Geenapp Gina Tostand CEO and co-founder of Eelp! Nina Alastruey to discuss the status…
Read moreIn stadiums meant for physical sports are thousands of fans gathered to see their idols play more virtual kinds of games. Foto: Bago Games In 2016 reports showed that over one billion people are aware of eSports the industry brought in around one billion dollars the same year. Both analysts and experts see 2017 as a…
Read moreFirst of all, this is a non-technical approach to API’s, so if you want in-depth tech insights, I recommend you get in touch with Hitch — the API experts. However, if you’re looking to get insight in why you should use API’s to strengthen and grow your business, and what metrics you should be aware of when…
Read moreIn case you wonder, this is a hypnotoad. Humor is a universal language, it has no limits, no boundaries. It is the channel to communicate with your customers and collaborators in a direct way and the most efficient transport for your ideas to go around the world. In the ever-growing ocean of content that is…
Read moreAs product focus is more important than ever in building startups in a very competitive market, the product manager role is increasingly getting more common and is highly valued. But to many it’s a job description that’s a bit vague, and often means different things from company to company. We invited three product people from…
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