Last Friday 21st November ENB Board members attended an evening held by the network Barcelona Entrepreneurship City. This was one of many events hosted by the new business club The Gild and as part of the ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week 17th-23rd November 2008′ (www.enterpriseweek.org.uk)
The evening kicked off with a discussion on how to improve the entrepreneurial environment of Barcelona.
Speakers featured:
Juan Carlos Angeles - President of EO Spain
Andre Varny - President Eurecan Community
Jesus Monleon - Co-Founder of Seed Rocket
Yolanda Perez - Director of Barcelona Activa
Nick Lesser - Entrepreneurs Network Barcelona
Sergi Mora - Manger of ACC1Ó
Ester Palomar - Manager of Eurecan International
Julian Vinué – Manager of La Salle Entrepreneurship Center
Ricard Soderberg – Founder & Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners (Moderator)
This was followed by an interesting presentation by Philipp Schroeder (Founder & Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners) and Christian Siegele (former Partner of 3i Venture Capital and an international business angel) on how to “Prepare your company for difficult times”.
The evening came to a close with an inspiring presentation and discussion on the new concept of ‘Venturepreneurs’. Successful entrepreneurs and founders of the organisation www.venturepreneurs.com discussed their own experiences and interests in working as business angels for start-up companies. Being entrepreneurs themselves, they look to combine funding and investment with advice and experience. The speakers featured were:
Albert Armengol – Founder of eConoczo & Venturepreneur of Genoom, Festuc, Bloguzz, Linqia
Carlos Muñoz – Founder of Vueling
Didac Lee – Founder of IntercomGI, Spamina, Atraczion and Scubastore TBC
Jan Andresen – Founder of Elkware, CEO of Weblin & Venturepreneur of cellity, JobLeads, mediaclipping, Kinkaa, High-Def, creative-weblogging, sofatronic, Fishlabs
Christopher Pommerening – Founder & Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners (Moderator)
The evening was a great success and it was encouraging to see the coming together of various entrepreneurial networks. We were able to exchange ideas and thoughts on how to improve the entrepreneurial spirit in Barcelona, as well as to look at how the various networks could join forces and work together.
As a result ENB hope to have representatives from Barcelona Activa, EO and The Guild talking at one of our evenings in the new year.
Links of interest:
EO Barcelona www.eobarcelona.org
Barcelona Activa www.barcelonactiva.cat
Barcelona Entrepreneurship City www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=42920797791
The Gild www.gildinternational.com
The ENB Team
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