Finding talent, the new start-up challenge
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la The amazing growth of Start-ups emerging in Latin America has given way to new challenges to overcome. Finding the right people to work with is most definitely one of the most common ones, a challenge that Silicon Valley has faced for several years. One of the most valuable things of Silicon Valley is that it is crowded with entrepreneurs, designers and developers eager to start their own projects or join an interesting...
read moreYet Another Mobile OS? What Now?
I have used a smartphone since 2009 when I bought an iPhone 3GS. Although I’ve since switched to an Android device, I honestly don’t know how I ever managed without one, regardless of platform. Up to now, there have been three main mobile platforms powering smartphone handsets: iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry could count as a fourth, but the platform is currently suffering from sparse adoption and declining market share that...
read moreYour New Home Awaits
Opinno’s Madrid office is expanding beyond the fifth floor of Gran Vía 16. Three stories up from one of Madrid’s most lively commercial boulevards, Opinno has opened a co-working space and an events hall, which hosts individual entrepreneurs as well as organizations like change.org and Multivent. The move signifies the company’s continued support for Madrid’s community of innovators and its efforts to facilitate the exchange of ideas among the members of the...
read moreGlobal Entrepreneurship Week strikes Mexico
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la As many of you know, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) was from the 12th to the 18th of November and every year it is celebrated around the world with activities aiming to foster the entrepreneurship culture. Mexico wasn’t the exception, and this year there were several activities happening around the country. Startup Weekend, in particular, has been very popular this year. With the opening of its regional offices,...
read moreDevelopers propel ICT among LATAM farmers
Things can always go a step further, and the Argentineans at the NGO Cultural Association for Integral Development (ACDI by its Spanish initials), can surely attest to that. In August of 2003, and with funding from the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), the NGO decided to promote traceability among small farmers to facilitate their entry into the export value chain. Two years later, after an investment of 1 million USD and the work of 40 developers, they realized that...
read moreMicrosoft’s new technologies
In a prior post I touched briefly on my experience thus far with Windows 8, Microsoft’s new operating system, released to the public on Oct. 26. Veteran Windows expert, technology writer, and blogger Paul Thurrott has called the OS a “mess,” a view with which I largely agree. Windows 8 is a weird combination of new technology (like a fresh new main interface inspired by the Windows Phone OS) grafted on top of old (like the classic desktop environment that’s...
read moreSpanish Start-ups visit Silicon Valley
Opinno -Open Innovation- organized the Cleantech Week 2012 from November 5 to 9, in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley, a business encounter for Spanish entrepreneurs in the clean technology sector, with the goal of bringing them closer to the American cleantech market and the entrepreneur and collaborative work environment that is experienced in Silicon Valley. Participants included the winning start-ups of Fundación Biodiversidad’s Emprendeverde contest:...
read moreEntrepreneurship and Passion in Healthcare
Through this series of posts I will be writing for Opinno once a month, I will try to provide a broad view of what I understand are the keys for being a successful entrepreneur in biomedicine. In fact, my own experience -of over ten years now- can be an interesting example for all those wishing to pursue their dream and make a living from their “super idea” related to healthcare. I always like to remember how I found myself initially immersed in this world...
read moreEmtech 2012 Spain is here!!
You can watch Emtech Spain 2012 live on streaming at www.technologyreview.es The second edition of the world’s most important conference on emerging technologies, organized by Technology Review and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Emtech Spain 2012 is on today and tomorrow, in Málaga, Spain. Once again, MIT puts its trust in Spain, betting on Málaga as the meeting point for its conferences in Europe; and I wouldn’t be...
read moreThe murder of Facebook
And… It didn’t happen! When all the investors thought that Facebook (from here on called $FB) was going to die a couple of days ago, they were wrong. When the block of shares of the social media company held by insiders became eligible for sale, many feared the worst. In fact, in my opinion, Zuckerberg’s company is totally overvalued. Its stock market debut was just the drop that spilled the glass. The dominance of $FB can be truncated by certain...
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