President's Blog

The theory is very attractive.  I´m passing through the city, it´s time to eat and dozens of restaurants in the area around me know that I am thinking about eating.  Some even know my eating preferences and are ready to make a special price for me if I eat in their establishment.
Suddenly, I receive a [...]

Viral marketing is free.  As least that’s what many entrepreneurs think.  Their business plans do not consider the acquisition of clients because -owing to this viral marketing- they get them free.  This is not true and it can cause a lot of headaches.  Online marketing, as much viral effect as it has, has a cost [...]

One of the great advantages of the Internet is the quick business model change with low restructuring costs.  When you start an Internet business, as clear as the initial model is, you always have to go into depth on the variables or radical changes that, in constant contact with the client, you see as possible [...]

It is the problem of fads.  Something becomes fashionable and all the world wants to be “in style.”  Now it is the time for cloud computing and SaaS (Software as a Service).  Each week some new project from this field comes to us and, frequently, the model is not very viable because of a grave [...]

DaD’s executives as well as several members are meeting today on a day that XPLANE calls a day of “discovery.”  It involves utilizing the methodology of this American company we are lead investors in to further deepen DaD’s model and how to improve the ecosystem in the coming years.
To stop is to go backward and [...]

According to Journal du Net, France’s online sales have closed with a turnover of 25 billion Euros this past year.  In Spain they expect to near 10 billion with a 56% increase from the last year, but we still don’t have the exact data from the close of the year.
In any case, we are still [...]

These days, some of the participated companies at DaD are making new increases in capital and, some of them new investments, require more capital than what DaD can assume.  The result is that the investing partners in the company are arranging several opportunities to participate in these investments, and they are doing it with increasing [...]

There is an increasing number of entrepreneurs who are looking for investors without really knowing what it is they want to do with the company and what they need the money for.  The investors wants to know.  It is very difficult to convince anyone to invest in a company if they don’t clearly understand what [...]

There are many Internet businesses created without money, spending a lot of time and dedicating the best of yourself.  They are usually very profitable at mid- and long-term but they have a limited horizon of development.  Very good for the promoter but without room for investments.  Other models require a lot of money because the [...]

As we approach the 2,000 million Internet user mark, which will be achieved very shortly, you must consider that probably 1%, that is 20 million, of its users are among the most intelligent on the planet.  Probably from among those, 5% want to change the world with new ideas, that is, there are a million [...]