Somflee

Businessmen from the Spanish-based digital-based company has gained Opinno Madrid Headquarters this past Tuesday night for a night on the François Derbaix, founder and CEO of Voota. In attendance were some of the most exciting innovators with entrepreneurial landscape Spain, including BaqkUp sl, bookAffinity, the Family Nómada, Ideas4All, Koliseo, Musikame, Somflee, Tugueder, Vidium and YFSpain.

François started the evening by speaking about his previous experience as a founder of Toprural, the leading portal for rural tourism in Europe, as well as a co-founder of Rentalia.com, the leading portal for Holiday Rentals in Spain, Portugal and Andorra.From this experience, François offered advice innovators in attendance for their own company, vary from the serious (the importance of innovators who dedicate themselves full-time on their projects) to more lighthearted (eventually, venture capital comes when capital is required and when there is no risk). François also spoke of the importance of digital media-based businesses in search of people with a commercial profile and expertise in monetizing websites. To close the evening, François reminded the attendees that, in a more basic level, the founder of the company should surround themselves with others who believe in their ideas, because ultimately what will give the company’s passion and has led investors and partners have confidence in that company.

For more highlights from the talk, please visit our Twitter feed at www.twitter.com / opinno and search under the hashtag # ficod09meetup. If you want to read about events in Spanish, you can also see the blogpost by Eduardo Millán from Somflee. Finally, for pictures of events, check out our Flickr album Opinno and the images below!