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MIT says you got no excuse, The Rise of No-Code, Spain’s Investor Database and more!

Sep 1, 2020
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I’mĀ Ivan Landabaso, VC atĀ JME.vc, surfer and combat sports practitioner. Welcome to Startup Riders, your bi-weeklyĀ startup caffeine ā˜•

Summary | TL;DR

  • šŸš€MIT says you got no excuse: The 20-year-old Entrepreneur is a lie.

  • 🚫The Rise of No-Code: Tools to go from idea to launch without coding.

  • šŸ¤ Spain’s Investor Database: Who to talk to when raising money in Spain.

  • šŸ—ŗļøĀ Spain’s Incubator Map: Where to find support in Spain.

  • šŸ’µ Recent Deals: RevenueCat, Voovio, Lana, Wygers, ProntoPiso, and more.

  • šŸ¦„Ā StartupĀ Jobs: A list of startup jobs from recently funded Spanish companies.

  • šŸ’­Thinking or Reading: Stanford’s Symbolic Systems’ Bible.

Check out the Community Group to meet fellow riders and share your experience šŸ¤™


šŸš€ MIT: The 20 year old Entrepreneur is a lie (Article)

42 years old - is the average age of entrepreneurs who’ve 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 ā€œyoungā€ to launch a successful venture. Yet, data from MIT Sloan professor Pierre Azoulay and PhD student Daniel Kim shows something very different:

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Turns out experience does bear fruit. Even the GOAT’s had experience under their belts before becoming stars:

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🚫The Rise of No-Code

Now that we’ve established you are not too old to startup - lets attack usual suspect #2:

But I can't code 😢!

You are in luck.

Here’s a personally vetted list of no-code tools to launch an MVP with examples of some stuff I’ve 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.

  • There’s many more, I’ll keep you posted as they come / find value in them.

And here’s a great Infographic of the no-code landscape by Thibault Bernard.


šŸ¤ Spain’s Investor Database

If you are ready to roll, here’s 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 we’ll dissect your project šŸ˜‰.

Quick Snapshot:


šŸ—ŗļøĀ Spain’s Incubator Map

After reviewing the available literature / data, it wasn’t clear to me where the ā€œbest-placeā€ 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. Here’s a quick visual:

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Here’s the breakdown by supported vertical:

And here’s the link to the database where you can filter by location, sector and more + quick snapshot:


šŸ’µ Recent Deals

  • RevenueCat - $15 million led by Index Ventures.

  • Voovio Technologies - raised €15 million from Moira Capital.

  • Movo - €13 million from Delivery Hero, Seaya Ventures and others.

  • Lana - $12.5 million from Base10, Cathay an other investors.

  • ProntoPiso - €1.6 million from existing shareholders.

  • Wygers - €620,000 through Fellow Funders.

  • Rokubun - €550,000 via The Crowd Angel.

  • Methinks - undisclosedĀ funding from Nina Capital.

  • SimpleCloud - undisclosedĀ funding from Conexo Ventures.

šŸ¦„Ā StartupĀ Jobs

Here’s a quick list of recently funded startup jobs in Spain (this will grow soon):

  • Sales / Account Manager (Remote) - RevenueCat

  • IT Technician (San SebastiĆ”n) - 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.


šŸ’­Thinking or Reading

Stanford’s Symbolic Systems’ Bible - GEB

Also known as ā€œGƶdel,Ā Escher,Ā Bach: an Eternal Golden Braidā€ 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 🧠 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 ā€œStrange Loopsā€ seem to appear over-and-over again - across Mathematics (Gƶdel), Art (Escher), and Music (Back). See if you can grasp the concept of a ā€œStrange Loopā€ from Escher’s art below.

Gƶdel, Escher, Bach: for Everyone — Classical Post

If you find this interesting, please considerĀ sharing with your friends. I’d also love to get your thoughts and feedback onĀ Twitter. Until the next one! 😃

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Chris Morris
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Epic. Great read and really nicely written!

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DarĆ­o Villena
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Awesome job. Thank you!

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