YES! You SHOULD want to invest in Spanish start-ups. There is amazing talent here, but maybe not the best self-marketing, particularly in English. So I just want to shout it loud when I realize how many venture capitalists, angel investors and specialized crowd-funding sites are looking toward Barcelona to invest in the future of technology…
I attended the SmartCity Expo 2014 here in Barcelona. More than anything, it was a lot of “Yay my city did this” and not so much collaboration. So I went ahead and wrote about what makes a smart city, using Barcelona as the utmost example. So here it is, learn if Barcelona really is the smartest…
Everyone has an opinion about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or what’s more commonly known as Obamacare. But, at this point, if you own a business, it’s time to stop spouting opinions and start educating yourself about you and your employees’ rights, so you can make sure you’re compliant from the get-go. Plus, the more…
Full disclaimer, I’m an extreme extrovert. If you want to create one from scratch, to me, it’s easy — put them on stage at age two or three, tapping or singing or whatever it is to get them out there before a child learns to be seen and not heard. But, as much as I’m…
After two and a half years of writing for CBS SmartPlanet, on July 1 the website ceased to exist. Sadness because I think talking about innovation and technology in Spain, my adopted home, is so important, especially right now. So here’s my last piece… BARCELONA — Critics say that the new program, which has housed…
BARCELONA — If you’ve never had Internet, why would you want it now? Increasingly, it looks like the answer is to get a bank. Getting the last couple billion online was the mantra of the 2014 Mobile World Congress. (Which by the way was awesome and it was super fun to talk at the first…
MADRID — Few things are quite as quintessentially Spanish as the Chocolateria San Ginés, off Madrid’s Plaza Mayor. Filled with older Spanish couples dressed to the nines, guiris or tourists, and even a few celebs, this thriving restaurant only sells a handful of things: relaxing cups of cafe con leche, fresh orange juice, and the…
About a year ago, we received an ominous message in our Google Webmaster Tools. We learned that our site violated the Google Webmaster guidelines in terms of backlinks to our webpage. In short, because there was a large number of links to us in abandoned forums and even, gulp, porn sites, we were flagged as spam and our…
MADRID — Radiation detection, domestic violence prevention, cancer prevention — with the government out of money, now there’s an app for that. Learn how Spain is breaking international law and how start-ups are apping it up.
BARCELONA — Spain is known for three-hour, Michelin-starred meals with bottles of vino, often accompanied by the sounds of live flamenco. While the luxury and tourism industries are still flourishing with expats, the recession has pulled the bottom out of local hospitality. From El Bulli to traditional tapas places, 12,000 Spanish bars and restaurants closed…
GRANADA, SPAIN –Stumbling around in the dark on a cloudy, winter day, trying to care for his eight alpacas, five dogs, four kittens and three chickens, Alan Parks would be happy to simply flick on a light switch, but his off-grid existence is par for the course outside Montoro, Andalusia, about 15 kilometers from the…
When you write for an international audience about technology and innovation in a country that has just a really bad rep right now, it’s great when you constantly find new reasons to prove the naysayers wrong, like this, the foremost knee surgeon in the world performing the first Google Glass surgery so med students around…
