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“Think big, very very big, start small and move fast”, “Plan for the normal scenario, but always have a plan for the worst scenario in the back of your head”…

These are not lovesickness lyrics but great tip for brand new entrepreneurs! That’s why you can’t miss this last release of the FACE Entrepreneurship Summer School video-series. Click play for more advice like this and see your career as entrepreneur and your startup success.

All good things must come to an end, and FACE Entrepreneurship could not be the exception. Even though it’s just the funded part of the project that is finishing, we want to have a great and memorable ending. It’s been 22 months of hard work, but also joy. We’ve made many mistakes, we’ve learned a lot, we’ve confronted our own fears, and we finally did many great things! But, the best of all was, no doubt, meeting you all! And, that’s why we want to invite you to close the circle with us at the South Summit 16. Now, you can get a 90% discount here for this amazing Summit where we will be hosting two great events. Join us and discover that Spain is much more than paella, sangria and tapas… we also are innovation, technology and development.

You can find a huge misconception usually blossoming within the entrepreneurial community; getting an investment is THE goal. Getting an investment is not THE goal. It might eventually be “a” goal but just that; it is just a first step. Celebrating an investment is like celebrating a new job. At the end of the day, getting an investment is just that; you just created your job, but it is a job for which you will have to bleed and sweat. The true stress starts when you start living out of someone else’s money and you have no returns.

Hundredrooms is a vacation rental metasearch that, instead of trying to look for the perfect apartment with all different characteristics in multiple pages, presents all the different choices with all the different prices in one single search. Drawing from sites like Airbnb, Booking and many others, it indexes around 5 million properties of the web in an intuitive interface. What users achieve is to save a lot of time and a lot of money because, one of the problems that this rental sector presents is that the same apartment can have many different prices depending on the web you are looking for.

As in every field of life there are as many opinions as there are people in the world! But it seems that most founders agree on the necessity of not only setting up a diverse team but also finding the appropriate dynamics to make it work!

Whether there is an ideal age to start up is a topic we have discussed often at FACE Entrepreneurship. Johannes Larsson is another one of many examples preaching that age doesn’t matter when you really enjoy and believe in what you are doing. This Swedish founder knew from very early on that he wanted to become an entrepreneur and he begun to work on his own web projects since he was 18 years old. Nowadays he is 23 and he is founder and CEO of the Malta-based company Financer.com, a digital tool providing comparison services in the finance sector and operating in multiple European markets.

We have already talked about the importance of finding a business opportunity to launch a startup, and there are many entrepreneurs that confessed having found a gap in the market simply by watching around them. These are called social entrepreneurs and are people who made something to improve other people’s lives. They made a contribution to society and at the same time the chances of success of their business rose to the top! So let’s find and fulfill a necessity!

You know that an entrepreneur hardly dissociates the private life from the professional one. However, that’s not always good for you and your startup. Because working more hours per day doesn’t mean that you are going to be more successful or your company will have a brighter future. If you do want to have time for yourself and for your relatives and also, make sure everything goes smoothly in your startup, you need to squeeze the day and be as productive as you can. How? Well, we have some good habits for you…

One of our most popular sections in the blog has been ‘Startup Ecosystem’. For several months, we have been traveling around Europe talking about how the different countries of the European Union are doing to improve their entrepreneurship community. Today, we analyze the Spanish Startup ecosystem in a video that you don’t want to miss. Check it out!