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Learn how to use Google Glass

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:37:00 +0200

For the two of you who already have Google Glass, Google released last week this Youtube video that demonstrates how to use Google Glass. It’s mostly controlled by swipes of the finger on the right side of the frame between your temple and your ear.

Are you dying to buy it or do you think you’ll pass?

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VICE: La nueva serie de HBO

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:28:00 +0200

VICE es la nueva serie documental de HBO hecha por la revista que lleva el mismo nombre. Sin duda será un antes y un después en el periodismo audiovisual, va más allá para buscar la verdad, sin miedos.

El objetivo de la serie es mostrar la otra perspectiva de los conflictos y situaciones violentas en diferentes partes del mundo ¡Sin desperdicios!

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Nuevo anuncio de Facebook Home

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:08:00 +0200

La compañía telefónica estadounidense AT&T ha lanzado esta mañana un nuevo anuncio para promocionar los dispositivos HTC con Facebook Home:

¿Qué os parece? ¿Dan ganas de cambiar de smartphone?

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HipChat 'lanza' el Emoticorrect

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:22:00 +0200

Me acuerdo de cuando Google hace casi una década nos engañaba año tras año con sus bromas y trampas para el April Fool’s Day. Ahora en el 2013, llega al punto de que me aburre porque ya me lo espero.

De Google y otras pocas empresas, se ha convertido ley en Silicon Valley hacer alguna parodia para April Fool’s Day, además de seguir el último vídeo-meme como lo ha sido el Harlem Shake hace unos meses.

El problema está en que ya es más que esperado. Si no te acuerdas, solo hace falta que entres en cualquier red social ese día para que veas que April Fool’s es el primer tópico en tendencia. Dudo que alguien se haya pegado la nariz cuando Google anunció en April Fool’s Day, por ende me ha dejado de sorprender.

Una startup que sí me ha gustado este año ha sido HipChat. Se han olvidado de intentar engañar al usuario, sino que directamente se han ido al extremo de lo ridículo para causar algunas risas con el lanzamiento exagerado de su nueva herramienta falsa. Han tenido la iniciativa de hacer algo más gracioso, y creo que les ha funcionado.

HipChat es un servicio de mensajería instantánea entre equipos de trabajo y empresas. Desde hace recientemente, este servicio para los equipos de 5 personas o menos será gratis. Los equipos más grandes tienen una cuota mensual de $2 por usuario.

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Paperless Productivo usando Doxie Go

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:18:00 +0200

Desde hace unos meses, soy el embajador para negocios de Evernote para España. Gracias a este programa, ahora tengo una relación más cercana con productos y compañías que admiro dentro del ecosistema Evernote, además de tener la oportunidad de probar nuevos productos.

Ahora soy consumidor del escáner Doxie Go, cuyo factor diferencial con la gama de productos de Doxie es la potabilidad del mismo. El escáner te permite funcionar aunque no esté enchufado, y si se le agrega una tarjeta EyeFI se puede conectar directamente al WiFi.

En mi caso, siendo emprendedor tecnológico divido mi tiempo entre el Madrid International Lab, donde oficialmente están las oficinas de mi startup Pathfinder, y en la incubadora de empresa del IE Business School, Area 31. También paso mucho tiempo fuera de Madrid, y en esos momentos es donde me sirve más tener el escáner portátil a mano.

Hace unas semanas, estuve en el Mobile World Congress en Barcelona. Normalmente en este tipo de conferencias, acumulas mucho papel. Al final de la conferencia tienes demasiadas cosas, y aún habiendo depurado y eliminado lo innecesario, te quedas con una gran cantidad de papel. Tenía códigos de descuentos para todo tipo de servicios necesarios para mi empresa y mi persona, literatura sobre startups que me interesaban y también alguna información de estrategias que quería guardar.

Tener el escáner Doxie a mano me permitió de escanearlo todo y no tener que guardar físicamente absolutamente nada. Doxie Go está conectado con mi cuenta de Evernote a través del iPhone, iPad o Mac, donde va almacenando todo lo que escaneo.

En España y en el resto del mundo, el escáner Doxie Go está disponible en la tienda oficial online de Doxie.

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Match Point

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:34:55 +0200

The man who said ‘I’d rather be lucky than good’ saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It’s scary to think so much is out of one’s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win. Or maybe it doesn’t, and you lose.

Pathfinder brothers

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:50:18 +0100

Pathfinder brothers

"Bang With Friends" is not as discrete at all!

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:30:00 +0100

Last week, I was reading the news over Mashable about a new social network to literally bang your friends. The Bang With Friends sex app claims to anonymously hook users up with their Facebook friends. From the very first minute, I knew this could be a huge risk for many people to connect it to their Facebook and suggested a few friends not to even go near there.

It turns out I was right. I went to the first step of signing up where I was redirected to Facebook to authorize the app, and it turns out I could see which of my friends are already using the not-so-discrete-and-definitely-not-anonymous-at-all app:

I’m not saying it’s wrong to use it, we are all free to do as we please, but just have in mind that your family members and others would find out with only one click if you’re in or not.

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Evernote en español: Taller de Evernote para los negocios

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:24:46 +0100

Evernote en español: Taller de Evernote para los negocios:

evernote-es:

¿Quieres aprender a utilizar Evernote en tu negocio? Acompáñanos en el primer taller de “Evernote para los Negocios” que organiza Rui Delgado, Embajador de Evernote para Pymes en España. Aprenderás a implementar Evernote en tu empresa, y podrás conocer a muchas personas con quienes…

I’m an Evernote Ambassador now!

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:29:00 +0100

Since recently, I was fortunate enough to be in the new Evernote International Ambassadorship program. This program is a global community of users who volunteer their time and knowledge to show others how to become experts at using Evernote in various aspects of their daily lives.

I became the Small Business Ambassador for Spain and I’m looking forward to do all the things I’m planning to do with Evernote, share tips and open discussions of how Evernote has changed the lives of many companies and startups in Spain.

I’m eager to share with all of you the upcoming meetups and hangouts about to happen in Madrid and in Spain. Stay tuned here or follow me on Twitter for more news this week.

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pathfinderapp: We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy...

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:10:03 +0100

pathfinderapp:

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

My work here is done! Going home. Merry Christmas! (at...

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:36:29 +0100

My work here is done! Going home. Merry Christmas! (at International Lab - Madrid Emprende)

Instagram, what are you doing?

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:47:00 +0100

Instagram should revise the updated terms and conditions to lest each user decide If their work can be licensed and used under the conditions they propose.

Honestly, I’m very disappointed by the business model they’re trying to reach and how they’re doing it so. I hope they fix this as soon as possible.

This is what happens when you blindly trust Google Translate....

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:54:00 +0100

This is what happens when you blindly trust Google Translate. Cesar Millan called his fans ‘fans’ (as in an apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation)

In Response to the new Facebook Guidelines

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0100

In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare my rash has stopped burning, and also, that my copyright is attached to all of my typo-riddled status updates about my banal life, my bathroom mirror Instagram self portraits, my declarations of love for my worm-addled pets, and any and all blurry photos of my unremarkable meals (as a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial use of the above my written consent is needed at all times. But first, please validate my existence by “liking” my uninformed political opinions and free-verse poetry.

(Anyone reading this can copy this text and paste it on their Facebook Wall. It’s amazing what people will post to their Facebook Wall. Sometimes they don’t even read what they copy and paste. For instance: Joseph Stalin had a haunting singing voice.)

By the present communique, I notify Facebook that I had no idea that this 100% free social media site’s entire business model is to aggressively pimp all the personal and private information I so blithely shovel into its gaping maw. I thought it was just free, like magic! Furthermore, I have no idea how copyright law actually works, and my relationship status isn’t really “complicated,” but making that lie public numbs the pain of loneliness.

All Facebook members are recommended to publish a notice like this, because everyone else is doing it. If you do not publish a statement at least once, then you might actually have a life.

Roland Garros - May 2013

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:24:43 +0100

Next year I don’t want to miss the Roland Garros! Really, this time I’m going to make it to Paris on time.

Midnight Update

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:44:12 +0100

Ok, let’s try this again, shall we? Good night, Madrid!

Midnight Oil

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:46:03 +0100

Note to myself: In case you didn’t know, having caffeine after midnight is not a good idea.

A Better (Entrepreneurial) Spain Is Possible

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:33:00 +0100

Last week, I wrote an article about how the youth employment has fallen apart in Spain and how much I hope the Spanish government does something about it. Unfortunately, some people were under the impression that I would agree with throwing in the towel on Spanish entrepreneurship. Call me crazy, but I believe Spain can do better, and will do better if it fights for it. I see the current crisis as the biggest opportunity to start making things right.

Even though I respect the democratic right to go on strike, I’m determined to make a different approach than stop working. We can blame it on the government, on the banks, or Lehman Brothers if we want to, but that won’t solve the problem. It doesn’t matter if you vote liberal or conservative, we need to embrace entrepreneurship as a way out of this situation. I personally want to stand up and do something about it. I created a startup company here, and I hope it will lead to job creation and contribute raising Spain’s competitiveness.

Spain, as a state and as a nation, needs to reconsider what they teach in schools and how they motivate the entrepreneurial drive in people. Juan José Güemes, head of IE Business School’s International Entrepreneur Management Center, thinks ”this country needs entrepreneurs, not just in terms of creating businesses, but in terms of the way that we live, to be always on the lookout for opportunities, and not simply accepting the way that things are.” I happen to agree with him.

Güemes is also one of the major advocates for the creation of an Entrepreneur’s Visa in Spain. He takes every opportunity he’s got to explain the necessity of letting international entrepreneurs establish their business in Spain. As a foreigner myself, I got the opportunity to be accepted at the Madrid International Lab with my startup Pathfinder. This lab is a space dedicated to assisting international entrepreneurs with internationally based startups, and foreign businesses in starting up in Madrid. They offer office space equipped with the technical and logistical tools necessary to create startups.

Concerning that matter, Madrid is clearly doing as much as it can as a city. It’s far from being a hopeless place, and in fact, it was featured in TechCrunch as one of the top cities for startups. The thriving startup environment in Madrid welcomes people from all over the globe, like Liz Fleming, Deputy Director of IE Venture Lab and Gary Stewart, director of Wayra Academy -Telefonica’s startup accelerator.

But the #startuprevolution must be a national concern, and not only for Madrid and Barcelona. SMEs in Spain must be the soul and voice of the new Spanish economic regeneration. A stronger private sector must be the motor that drives the country out of the deepest crisis seen since the Great Depression in 1929. In order to do that, we need to embrace the necessary structural reforms and start making new policies that will ensure Spain moves forward.

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#Nimileuristas: the Spanish Youth Surviving with an Awful Salary

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:48:00 +0100

Last week, Espacio de Vinculación organized their Vanguardia Ibérica event, where young people meet to discuss important issues in the Iberoamerican region (Spain, Andorra, Portugal and Latin America). I had the privilege to be one of the guests to debate over the #nimileuristas panel.

#Nimileuristas is a concept that has been used in Spain to categorize those young people who don’t even reach the thousand euro salary (less than $1,300). I remember when I moved to Spain in 2006, the derogatory concept back then was #mileuristas (people who earn a little bit more than a thousand euros). How odd that after a few years, a miserable 1K+€ position would be considered a dream job.

According to the European Commission, 7 of each 10 young people are willing to leave Spain behind for a job. For several years, Spain has been an immigrant receiver until 2011, when the quota was turned negative by the amount of people who fled the country as fast as they could.

But what exactly can we expect from the Spanish current situation? It all started when we thought that we were unbeatably rich in Spain. The government created many infrastructures to modernize the country. Eventually, we became second to China in the world with the most miles that could be traveled in high-speed trains. We were also proud to become the #1 country in Europe with most airports and also with most paved highways. Olé!

Little did we know that we invested more than we were supposed to and made really bad decisions in where to prioritize, one mistake after the other. It’s even ridiculous to have cutting edge airports like Lleida’s where they only have 15 passengers per week. For the love of reason! We even spent 220 million euros to connect towns to the high-speed train line that have an average of 3 passengers per day.

Right now, we have the most prepared generation that we ever had and it’s going to total waste. Young people with two bachelor’s degrees, a semester abroad in England, and a master’s degree can’t even land a job at a local McDonald’s.

In that fake golden era, we motivated people to get a mortgage early in life and live the new Spanish dream. Millions of young couples enjoying the forthcoming fruits before harvesting the plants. Then the construction bubble bursted, and then the banking system. Now we have 317 daily home evictions since early 2012, and we only cared about them this week, when we read in the news about elder people taking their own lives when the authorities were climbing up the stairs to snatch from them probably the only thing they had left.

Let us only hope that we make the right decisions with the fiscal reform in Spain to motivate the economy and not lose the human side of being a nation. For us young people, I expect the government stick to their promise of an Entrepreneur’s Law in March 2013. We’ve been waiting almost a year for it already.

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