đ Entrepreneurs & No-Code
MIT says you got no excuse, The Rise of No-Code, Spainâs Investor Database and more!
Iâm Ivan Landabaso, VC at JME.vc, surfer and combat sports practitioner. Welcome to Startup Riders, your bi-weekly startup caffeine â
Summary | TL;DR
đMIT says you got no excuse: The 20-year-old Entrepreneur is a lie.
đ«The Rise of No-Code: Tools to go from idea to launch without coding.
đ€ Spainâs Investor Database: Who to talk to when raising money in Spain.
đșïžÂ Spainâs Incubator Map: Where to find support in Spain.
đ” Recent Deals: RevenueCat, Voovio, Lana, Wygers, ProntoPiso, and more.
đŠÂ Startup Jobs: A list of startup jobs from recently funded Spanish companies.
đThinking or Reading: Stanfordâs Symbolic Systemsâ Bible.
Check out the Community Group to meet fellow riders and share your experience đ€
đ MIT: The 20 year old Entrepreneur is a lie (Article)
42 years old - is the average age of entrepreneurs whoâve started companies and gone on to hire at least one employee.
Media can distort reality - our collective consciousness has been led to believe that you need to be âyoungâ to launch a successful venture. Yet, data from MIT Sloan professor Pierre Azoulay and PhD student Daniel Kim shows something very different:
Turns out experience does bear fruit. Even the GOATâs had experience under their belts before becoming stars:
đ«The Rise of No-Code
Now that weâve established you are not too old to startup - lets attack usual suspect #2:
But I can't code đą!
You are in luck.
Hereâs a personally vetted list of no-code tools to launch an MVP with examples of some stuff Iâve launched (to prove it can be done relatively easily):
ShareTribe - Marketplace Builder. I built a Surfboard Marketplace in 1 hour.
Glide - App Builder. Works with Google Sheets. I built an App for Martial Arts.
Shopify - eCommerce Website Builder. Explored this for a Combat Sports page.
Webflow - Blog / Website Builder . Explored it to build my site, dumped for Wix.
Wix - Blog / Website / Database Builder. Built startupriders.io.
Sheet2Site - Job Board / Website / Other. Explored for my site, dumped for Wix.
Thereâs many more, Iâll keep you posted as they come / find value in them.
And hereâs a great Infographic of the no-code landscape by Thibault Bernard.
đ€ Spainâs Investor Database
If you are ready to roll, hereâs an updated list of all investors in Spain (across investment stages). If you are looking for feedback and/or money, you can shoot them a note. Otherwise feel free to post in the Spanish Startup Riders Community group and weâll dissect your project đ.
Quick Snapshot:
đșïžÂ Spainâs Incubator Map
After reviewing the available literature / data, it wasnât clear to me where the âbest-placeâ to launch a startup is in Spain. Of course, this will vary widely depending on which factors matter to you.
My hope is that surfacing incubator / accelerator hubs and the verticals their support can help entrepreneurs make a more informed decision. Hereâs a quick visual:
Hereâs the breakdown by supported vertical:
And hereâs the link to the database where you can filter by location, sector and more + quick snapshot:
đ” Recent Deals
RevenueCat - $15 million led by Index Ventures.
Voovio Technologies - raised âŹ15 million from Moira Capital.
Movo - âŹ13 million from Delivery Hero, Seaya Ventures and others.
Lana - $12.5 million from Base10, Cathay an other investors.
ProntoPiso - âŹ1.6 million from existing shareholders.
Wygers - âŹ620,000 through Fellow Funders.
Rokubun - âŹ550,000 via The Crowd Angel.
Methinks - undisclosed funding from Nina Capital.
SimpleCloud - undisclosed funding from Conexo Ventures.
đŠÂ Startup Jobs
Hereâs a quick list of recently funded startup jobs in Spain (this will grow soon):
Sales / Account Manager (Remote) - RevenueCat
IT Technician (San SebastiĂĄn) - Voovio Technologies
Backend Dev (Madrid) - Lana
Site Reliability Engineer (Madrid) - Lana
Commercial Director (Barcelona) - Methinks
Regulatory Affairs Specialist (Barcelona) - Methinks
General Application (Madrid) - Wygers
General Application [info@rokubun.cat] (Barcelona) - Rokubun
General Application [message them on Linkedin] (Madrid) - SimpleCloud
Feel free to contact me with job listings.
đThinking or Reading
Stanfordâs Symbolic Systemsâ Bible - GEB
Also known as âGödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braidâ by Douglas Hofstadter
This was recommended to me by a good friend and co-worker who studied Symbolic systems at Stanford. This was their unofficial Textbook.
If you want to get your đ§ blown, go down the rabbit hole. In a nutshell, it explores how animate beings can come out of inanimate objects. The answer? Strange Loops. The book will take you to some pretty crazy places were these âStrange Loopsâ seem to appear over-and-over again - across Mathematics (Gödel), Art (Escher), and Music (Back). See if you can grasp the concept of a âStrange Loopâ from Escherâs art below.
If you find this interesting, please consider sharing with your friends. Iâd also love to get your thoughts and feedback on Twitter. Until the next one! đ
Epic. Great read and really nicely written!
Awesome job. Thank you!