Things I’d do differently if I were starting up right now

25 Jun
2010

1. Ask myself very honestly what’s important for me and what am I ready to give up.
2. Think very carefully how I want my life to be in 5, 10 and 30 years from now.
3. I’d ask myself what am I really good at and what motivates me most. And I’d focus on that.
4. I’d try to gather my own resources and remain as independent as I can.
5. I’d trust myself, my intuitions, my opinions a lot more.

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Generate trust

3 Jun
2010

People tends to trust me very easily. This always surprised me. This trust is a honor but also a big responsibility because on that level is where we talk about really important things, the things that define our lives and make us vulnerable.
I asked myself very often why me, why people tend to trust me [...]

Silence as a branding strategy

28 May
2010

I’ve been thinking lately a lot about the following two subjects: the

In 7 Words

26 May
2010

Did you ever try to explain your business in just 7 words? Try it, you’ll probably find the task more complicated than you expected.
The first step to sell is to make the person in front of you clearly understand 1) what do you have for him/her 2) why should he/she need it and 3) why [...]

The lessons of failure

18 May
2010

There’s much that can be said about failure but much of it comes down to this: you can only fail if you really try something new, if you take a chance. To fail you need to get out of your confort zone and this is the only way to evolve in our lifes.
Seth Goddin [...]

Aknowledge, apologize, act (reconoce, discúlpate y actúa)

14 Apr
2010

Explicar la frase de René de Jong y la brillante intervención de Atrápalo en un caso de crisis.
“Todo comunica, el silencio también”
La crisis de comunicación como gran oportunidad.

Real networking (a short tale about social networking)

9 Mar
2010

As so many other people, I frequently faced the following dilema when dealing with social networks: accept or ignore?
For a while, I accepted everybody. Then I realized how boring it is to have friends you cannot talk with because you don’t know who they are.
Later, I accepted only those who I already knew. But [...]

Avoid being the “neck of the bottle”

22 Feb
2010

Note: The “neck of the bottle” in Spanish is a part of the process that slows down the whole process itself.
Last week,  I made myself the following questions:
Do you frequently postpone extremely important tasks that only you can undertake for whatever reason (there’s something more urgent, you have headache, you broke up with your boy [...]

Business are flesh and blood

6 Apr
2009

A couple of weeks ago when a good friend me told me the following sentence:
“Business are flesh and blood. The people are the body, the food is the money and, in our case (Internet), tech is the brain”.
For me, this sentences perfectly sintetizes some of the problems you’ll find as an entrepreneur:
1) Delegating. It’s a [...]

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