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Tetuan Valley Startup School V: Mentor Demo Day

Posted by Nast Marrero on 17/01/2012 None comments

Good Moooorning Tetuan!

Last but not least here it goes the last session of Tetuan Valley Startup School V (for Vendetta). The answer of our friends to this event was awesome. We had 30 mentors, investors and friends… not bad eh?!

As you can see in this picture we had some of our usual suspect-heros as well: Alex Barrera, Byron Stanford and of course Cobi. It was pretty funny, I tried to broadcast it via our ustream channel… and guess WHAT? Our überconnection went down… lol… it haven’t failed even once for the past three months, and just when we most relied on it: crashes. But we persist and prevail! We tackled the Empire’s effort to jam our communication streaming from my smartphone and having a backup camera. HA!

Well, down to the point: Our Keynote speaker was Manuel Balsera (Member of the board of Start Digital Media Capital). Manuel spoke about what are the most interesting markets in Spain on digital industries, and explained us how their fund scouting and screening works.

Later on our awesome, brand new alumni from edition V pitched their great projects. And let me tell you… the made me feel really proud and honored for being part of this story of great challenges and greater improvement in 6 weeks.

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Those projects on awesomeness were:

P2PLending: Democratizing borrowers and lenders interaction
Referama: Humanizing your real-world networks
Nubedu: Direct line for teachers and parents
ExecInterview: Hone your English and interview skills and get a job NOW
TooRisk: Vendetta for pissed customers
Mashpan: Tomorrow of digital information management
Groupject: Empowering your support system to defeat procrastination
Feedtrack: Powering qualitative data analysis
Mobflint: Enabling Android developers to built apps that don’t suck
Oniri.co: Next generation of architecture repository

In this last video you have all the attendants presenting them self in audio, if you want to check it better gor to our ustream channel and watch those presentations (after min1:10) and enjoy a display of my awful skills as a cameraman.

And as all good things this project arrived to its end, and I’ve had the pleasure of writing the Epic Chronicle of Tetuan Valley Startup School V (for Vendetta).

Tetuan Valley Startup School V – Season Finale

Posted by Nast Marrero on 11/01/2012 None comments

Howdy guys,

I know I’m one month late with this post, but I had an epic fight against the video codecs and Vimeo. But I’m a stubborn jedi… therefore I won!

In this season finale session Cobi told us about some critical stuff to keep in mind for your startup, your career as an entrepreneur and for live: the startup mantra, how to optimize your work flow by maximizing not value, not revenue, but happiness.

Tetuan Valley Startup School V (Session 6)

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Later on Cobi touched a subject I find of utmost interest: the shared valued mindset. The traditional business school mantra is: “the ultimate goal for a business is to maximize shareholders’ value”, but even Michael Porter (the Biz Management Guru and Harvard Professor) is working lately in another model to analyze organizations mission. By the Shared Value model, Porter implies that the ultimate goal of any organization is to “maximize stakeholders’ value”. Stakeholders is a much wider concept than shareholders, and it implies that companies should focus on create multilevel value for shareholder (of course) but also for their community and their environment. But enough with the biz school preaching!

Our rockstar mentor for the day was…

Jose Cabiedes (do I really need to tell you who he is?!), he’s one of the most active biz-angels in Spain. Gave a very interesting speech on how his lean venture capital fund works and what are the key issues entrepreneurs shall keep in mind when they’re raising money. After his speech he engaged in a very interesting Q&A with our tetuanees and then… Startup Pizza time.

Jose Cabiedes grabbed our clown hammer when he started the Q&A and was all the time helping him self from throwing a blow to the people seating in the first row… hehe

Peaching Preaching Pitching!

But the real rockstars here are our entrepreneurs. Once again they jump to the stage gave great pitches… Absolutely impressive how far these guys have made it in just 6 weeks. We even had an awesome surprise when TooRisk dropped they had raised founding to launch…