IESE’s Barcelona Technology Transfer Group (BTTG) has been recognized by AACSB International for its innovative efforts to elevate entrepreneurial thinking and encourage new business creation. The AACSB, the world’s largest business education alliance, recognized 25 business schools from 12 countries for a wide range of innovation projects, which emphasize research, experiential learning, cross-disciplinary efforts, and community […]
Navigating Entrepreneurial Opportunities in a Family-Founded GPS Company
Today we are featuring an interview with Santiago Twose, MBA ’03 and CEO of a leading Spanish company providing outdoor GPS solutions: TwoNav. Coming from an engineering background, Santiago leveraged the IESE MBA to gain general management and entrepreneurial skills. After several years of international experience, he decided to join efforts in the family company […]
From Consultant to Entrepreneur
Today we are featuring an interview with Julian Becker, one of our full-time MBA candidates (Class of 2020) and president of the IESE Startup & Entrepreneurship club. Coming from a consulting background, Julian leveraged the IESE MBA to gain entrepreneurial skills and recently founded Be.Green, an innovative indoor plant e-commerce business. Julian, could you please […]
What Mistakes Are Killing Your Startup? #7: Fights Between Founders
Fights Between Founders – founder conflict is very common. Founders, being ambitious people, are almost bound to disagree Paul Graham – Y Combinator Building the founding team, survival and growth are undoubtedly the major challenges faced by entrepreneurs. On one hand it seems quite clear that going solo is not the solution (see my blog […]
What Mistakes Are Killing Your Startup? #5 and #6: Launching too Early… or too Late
If there is one trend that did change the shape of the entrepreneurial ecosystem these last few years it has been the lean start-up movement. The concept is straightforward: It’s the philosophy that you should validate your initial ideas (assumptions) with real-life data before you invest more time and money in your project. The premise […]
