President's Blog

One of the hottest careers for “well connected” executives has always been that of the “Headhunter.”  Things are changing and now the “well connected” are those who have thousands of contacts/friends on Facebook, Tuenti, Linkedin, Xing, etc… and thousands of followers on Twitter.
With so many easy contacts, will the profession disappear? On the contrary, I [...]

Diego Méndez Romero, a friend on LinkedIn sent me this link to a very interesting article in German.  For those of you who can’t read this language, I recommend that you use the Google translation that, without being very precise, will allow you to get the gist of the article.
It is a review of German [...]

The article in EXPANSION on the entrance of Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s in Spain caught my eye.  Especially the appearance in our country of FiftyOne, a company that helps international ecommerce get out of their natural markets and venture into the world.
Like an independent Amazon species, it helps companies with their internationalization processes, supporting their logistics [...]

It is good, from time to time, to focus on the statistical figures of the Internet to gain perspective.  Today it was time and these are the results:
The European Union represents 18.1% of global Internet users and, within the EU, Spain itself is 6.1%, less than half of Germany and far from the 9.4% of [...]

The latest figures of financial achievement for the multinational Apple are spectacular.  Growth of more than 70%, owing to the success of the iPad that is leaving the iPhone in the dust.  It seems that wagering on the design and the user interface are two keys for success in consumer products and Apple knows how [...]

They say that “man is the only animal that trips twice on the same stone.”  One of my investors, a top executive in a multinational company, explained his latest activity to me and how the team that had been able to turn the business around and make it very profitable, some years later had made [...]

The latest at this point has been a claim from a designer who says they compensated him with more than an 80% share in the company for breach of contract, an accusation launched against the founder of Facebook.  Mark Zuckerberg who, doing honor to his name (in German it means sugar mountain) seems to attract [...]

Internet entrepreneurs visit us increasingly more frequently to offer their companies up for us to participate in. They no longer want investment -that also- in the majority of cases they want us to explain to them how to create a great global company, complete their team, or modify their business model for growth.
Little by little, [...]

Google is starting to see a red light for social searches.  What would happen if the paradigm changed and searches went through a filter of friends. What would happen to Google in a market where Facebook dominates access to your friends?  A personalized search system by Tuenti?  Social networks are worth more than they seem.
It [...]

With a 68% rise in profits last quarter, 299 million dollars, Amazon doesn’t seem to be anxious over the success of the iPad and the news that Apple has already sold 1.5 million books.  The market for eReaders has warmed up with the launch of the iPad and its unprecedented success.  Amazon at the moment, [...]