President's Blog

Going along with the publication today of an article in El País on online outlets, I would like to reflect on the opportunities of online Electronic Commerce and the reason, from the way I see it, it is still in diapers.  In reality, as much as you see online, with a sound exception for Amazon, [...]

It’s curious that in a global world like the Internet, local information and business models based on neighborhoods still hold interest.  There are a multitude of all types of initiatives that offer information, neighborhood by neighborhood all over the Internet.  Does that make sense?  Can local publicity offer so many different outlets for your ads?  [...]

VIPStore is the name of the company and we believe it has a great managing team.  They have already made more than 10 campaign offers and the order numbers look really good.  With this investment, DaD Asia is entering into their second phase of expansion and we can continue on to raising Chinese funds for [...]

Eudald has been asking me for some time to read his post on this topic.  I finally have been able to do so and it was worth it.  I find I quite agree with his assessments, really that’s what Cinemavip.com is about.  The Internet will soon be the driving force behind new television channels that [...]

There are already many companies that are dedicated to offering marketing services in social networks.  There are good ones and bad ones but, in any case, this doesn’t avoid the fact that you need to have someone from within your company to liven things up and check the subcontractors’ work.  Rarely is this a full [...]

As you have already frequently read on Infoman, my idea is that we need a lot of companies like DaD to be able to help many more entrepreneurs to move forward.  Little by little, within the culture of our investing group, there are beginning to appear concrete movements toward the creation of “little DaDs” in [...]

 
Today we will have the majority of the 46 DaD investors at the Shareholders’ Meeting, at which we should pass the new round of increase in capital and tell them about the new design for the strategy of our investing group.  We will also present them with the work we have done with XPLANE to [...]

The same thing is beginning to happen with Google that happened with Microsoft in 2000.  Investors don’t even want to hear about projects Google is going to enter or thinks it can enter into.  The same thing happened with Microsoft in 2000.  At that time, investors didn’t want to invest in anything Microsoft could touch.
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We continue to see cell phone projects but, while the iPhone and Google do not have a greater share of the market that makes them independent from operators, it is an environment in which I do not feel comfortable.  Operators have too much influence on the success of a company and that doesn’t seem to [...]

There are many Internet businesses, overall B2Bs, which do not need money but sales.  If you have a great application you have sold to two clients and are looking for money so that an investor can facilitate investment in marketing, you are making a mistake.  In reality, what you need is someone on your team [...]