157 articles by Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Team

Dealing with your first hire in a distributed team

Hiring is not easy, and even less so for a remote-working company. Here's how we did it.

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UFO

The MarsBased team grows bigger: the abduction

Read about how we hired our first employee at MarsBased.

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Aliens

The Martians conquer the IronHack

At MarsBased, we collaborate with dozens of different initiatives. Ironhack is one of those we love the most.

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People running

Sport on Rails - How do we keep fit at MarsBased

Mens sana in developer sano.

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Barcelona - Photo by Dorian D1

Barcelona Startup Map (part 2)

Read more about the Barcelona Startup Map, developed by MarsBased.

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Barcelona - Photo by Logan Armstrong

Barcelona Startup Map (part 1)

Read about one of our most well-known projects: the Barcelona Startup Map.

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Balloons

Celebrating the first Martian Year

Before incorporating the company, we operated one year in stealth mode. Here's a summary of how it went.

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Mobile phone with apps

How we make the right app for you (part 1)

We're often asked "what do you guys do at MarsBased?" when we're out there promoting our little dev shop. While it might get repetitive after a few hundred times, it gets never tiring: it helps us to perfect the answer. And actually, it's been a good proof that we were not conveying our message clearly enough through our communication channels.

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Conference people

MarsBased conquered the Startup Grind

Summary of our first Startup Grind event in Silicon Valley.

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Sagrada Família - Photo by Ashim D’Silva

Startup Circle in Barcelona

We created a group of like-minded entrepreneurs to share our failures and successes.

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Computer error

Fail. Learn. Change. Evolve.

In this blog entry, we explain the concept of pivoting.

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Cookbook and food

Cookin.me: where all your recipes want to be!

Check out our first open source project that never saw the light of day.

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