Startup Grind Barcelona is hosting a special event for all the entrepreneurs, investors, startups and friends in the city to get together for a festive evening and share exciting ideas. For this 3rd event during the Mobile World Congress week, we'll have a fireside chat session with Laura Martínez Celada (Co-founder of The Hotels Network), networking with the best community in town, snacks and cold beer! For this occasion, we've chosen a special venue, Casa Les Punxes, an emblematic modernist building in the heart of Barcelona. The event will be in English, and registration is required.
The event will go as follows:
1. Welcome
2. An open mic session where any attendee is free to speak up his mind or ask for a piece of advice from the community and receive feedback.
3. A fireside chat interview with Laura Martínez Celada (Co-founder of The Hotels Network) hosted by our Chapter Director Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit.
4. A networking session in which attendees talk to each other freely over some beers and delicious empanadas. There's no Startup Grind where you don't leave with new friends and exciting connections.
Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We do so by hosting a monthly recurring event. The Barcelona chapter was granted the "Best Chapter of the Year" award in 2016, with the average assistance of +130 attendees per event, having held over 100 editions since April 2014 and helping local entrepreneurs to take their projects to the next level.
*Note: all our events are conducted in English and do not offer refunds. If you need an invoice email us at leire@startupgrind.com after getting the ticket. We do not sell tickets at the door. All tickets must be got online.
See you there and happy grinding!
The Hotels Network
Co-founder - VP Growth & Success
Laura is part of the founding team of The Hotels Network, a SaaS company in the hospitality space that helps hotels increase their direct channel performance, get more bookings and convert their clients into a source of future revenue. The Hotels Network provides every hotel member with state-of-the-art software and tools to improve conversion on the hotel’s own website, and bring in new clien…
Laura is part of the founding team of The Hotels Network, a SaaS company in the hospitality space that helps hotels increase their direct channel performance, get more bookings and convert their clients into a source of future revenue. The Hotels Network provides every hotel member with state-of-the-art software and tools to improve conversion on the hotel’s own website, and bring in new clients.
Multi-disciplinary background: combining experience in startups (SaaS and B2C), Direct Marketing, Fast-moving Consumer Goods, Promotions and Internet agency.
Passionate about new business opportunities and how to make them real. Results-oriented, proactive and energetic. She's a team player, helping the team move forward in the objectives that they want to achieve.
For the last 10 years, she's been working in building technology companies in the hospitality industry, especially focusing on Sales and Client Success.
Previously:
She cofounded Knok, a home-exchange community to help people to travel everywhere and stay for free exchanging their home. Knok was also the only player in the market offering each member unique insurance while they swap. Knok was sold to the leader in the market Home Exchange.com.
In 2005, she joined Duplex Marketing and it is now one of the most innovative below-the-line marketing agencies in Spain. Their goal is to develop the best creative ideas, offer quick response and day to day efficiency to meet clients expectations. They coordinated all project areas, including strategy, creativity, design, logistics and technology.
MarsBased
CEO & Founder
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CEO & Founder at MarsBased and Barcelona Chapter Director at Startup Grind. MarsBased is a 20-people full-remote development consultancy from Barcelona specialised in web and mobile applications developed with Ruby on Rails and Javascript frameworks. Àlex runs the sales/marketing area and is in charge of communications & growth of the company. His background in consulting & development (ex-Deloitte, ex-VASS) and his international profile helps him with the technical and the business perspective. His experience with volunteering (over 5 years at ESN) have helped him to build one of the strongest communities in Barcelona through Startup Grind, events for developers, curating Startup Digest, and managing a Slack community for entrepreneurs and startups in Barcelona.
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