The company Miscota, specializing in the sale of pet food over the Internet, has closed with the inflow of 500,000 euros of private capital the first phase of the funding round, expected to amount to 1 million euros, which it has started to undertake its international expansion plan.
Can startups be multinational right from the start? They can, and it is becoming more and more common that this is the case. In the June issue of Entrepreneurs you can read several recommendations from experts and founders of Spanish companies that started operating in several countries from the beginning:
These are times of decisions that affect everyone. And among them, entrepreneurship. Intelectium, through Patricio Hunt, one of the managing partners, wanted to express his opinion in a forum in the newspaper Expansión.
To start a business you need a good idea and a great team. A multifaceted and multifunctional team, made up of highly specialized, different and complementary profiles. Forming such a team has been the objective of the collaboration for a year between Brainsins, and Intelectium acceleradora startups.
The recent Trust Barometer from the multinational agency Edelman shows that the climate of trust in the work environment forms an indivisible part of the evolution of companies. Beyond good words and intentions, Edelman's study proves that if a company places its employees...
Entrepreneurship is no longer like before. Now, for better or worse, entrepreneurship has a better press. Although in Spain it is still difficult for us to get rid of that slab and that unfair vision that some people have, the truth is that entrepreneurship is getting better and better.
When an entrepreneur launches a project, they usually have a prior idea of what they want to do. But surely this idea is something general that does not materialize in a product or service. It is important to establish business strategies from the right start, such as looking for a specific market.
It is often said that there are certain people with the so-called 'entrepreneurial chip', either by inheritance or by their own motivation. There are also those who believe that genetics don't play a role in all of this.
There are many occasions when an entrepreneur has to explain what he does, what his entrepreneurial project is... in short, what he does for a living. This in many cases is not so obvious, first of all because whoever does something is so involved in the project that it is difficult for them to give an explanation.
The crisis that has befallen the Spanish economy has highlighted the importance of a change in the economic model, from brick Spain to innovation Spain. For the change of model to be possible, Spanish companies have to get rid of the pliers that inhibit innovation
Over the past 10 years, according to data from the OECD, labor productivity in Spain has grown by an average of 0.64% each year. The only developed country with the lowest level of productivity growth has been Italy with 0.30%.