ENB - Entrepreneurs Network Barcelona

It’s nearing that festive season, and ENB are ready to celebrate the Christmas festivities in style!

ENB invite members to join them on Wednesday 17th December at 20.00h for our Christmas Party.

The Christmas Party will start with a sit-down dinner at the Hotel Casanova followed by drinks and frivolities in the hotel bar afterwards.

The meal will be 40 € per person and will include the following:

Aperitivos:
Chips de tubérculos
Cucharita de ceviche de pescado y crujiente de cítricos
Crujiente de pasta philo con verduritas, langostinos y soja
Croquetas caseras de carabineros
Coca de aceite de oliva con tomate fresco, mozzarella y albahaca

Starters:
Ensalada de verdes con jamón Ibérico, tomate seco, parmesano y crujiente de pan especiado

Main:
Pato barberie lacado con mango y setas confitadas
Lubina con pistachos y timbal de verduritas de invierno

Dessert:
Bizcocho de chocolate amargo con crema de café y canela
Cafés, turrones y neulas

Beverages:
Aguas minerales
Vino tinto Azabache tempranillo D.O. Rioja
Vino blanco Mont Marçal D.O. Penedés
Cava Codorniu Brut  

We will also be holding a small ENB Awards Ceremony at the Christmas dinner in recognition of some of our most innovative, dedicated and passionate ENB members!

If you would like to attend the Christmas Party, please send us email confirmation (including your telephone number) before Friday 5th December: info@networkbarcelona.com

We do hope you can make it.
The ENB Team

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

We are sure you are all seasoned-enough operators not to have believed it, but it seems that a spammer/scammer has been sending emails to some members in the name of Basil Demeroutis, Capricorn Investment Group, with the typical story about passing millions of dollars through their accounts.  Of course, this email is entirely false and you should not reply.

Mr Demeroutis does indeed exist, and works at the company named, although it is of course not him who is sending the emails, and they do not come from his company.  It is simply someone masquerading as him.  We have contacted him to warn him of the fact that his name is being used in this way.

We would like to thank Michael, Richard and Robert, owners of the Mini Guide, Barcelona Metropolitan and Guide Out to Barcelona for three truly enlightening presentations. It was an inspiration to see the people behind the publications that many of us know so well. The three entrepreneurs also showed us how they have managed to find healthy market share in a market that would seem to be mutually exclusive at first glance.

Having heard their stories and witnessed the respect they have for each other, we were warmed to hear their views on the current market in Barcelona and their feelings on the opportunities and threats that may lay ahead.

The meeting was filled to capacity and standing room was necessary, but I am sure for those who were not able to find seating it was well worth the stand!!

The presentations were followed by our usual social event in which were also invited some of our members to partake in the ‘ 2 minute open mic’ session to present their businesses or ideas to the members.

Thanks again to all those who attend, and look out for details on the Christmas Dinner.

150 Entrepreneurs will meet on Friday 21st of November at 18:00h at the business club Gild International. We have prepared the following agenda for you: Read more…150 Entrepreneurs in Barcelona