Jun 11 2008
The Talent loves Barcelona
When I travel, the people I know frequently ask me: “As an entrepreneur which pros did you have to create an star-up in Barcelona?” and I have always the same answer: “It’s 30 minutes away from my home!!!”
So my testimonial is not relevant for that reason, but I know a lot of guys that have moved their companies or part of their companies to Barcelona, and for sure they weren’t 30 minutes away from their home. I will try to update this initiative almost every week and through this testimonials I’d like to demonstrate that the combination of Barcelona+Google is the best bet to attract what I think Google really wants from the European Marketplace: Talent.
Here you have a video about the research group that Yahoo! have in Barcelona
I am trying to remember, without success, the name of the spanish business woman who once said “Spain is the European Florida but we would like to become California”, Inspirational, good idea, nice sentence, but don’t stand still , Let’s go for it!!!
It’s right. In fact there are some start-up’s looking for talent here now, for exemple, Fluendo/Flumotion, they create and mantain Gstreamer. When I met they and I talked about why Barcelona? They answered me, Barcelona is really a good option for 3 reasons: It’s a nice city to live (you have everything you want and it’s not so much stressed like other european cities), it’s cheaper than other big cities in Europe and have a good wheater.
So, why couldn’t Google put a headquarters in Barcelona?