157 articles by Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

An astronaut writing a journal

Our weekly internal digest: Martian Chronicles

Here's a blog post explaining how we write an internal intel post for our team with everything they ought to know for the week. A great way to enhance their async experience!

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Space fight against the evil empire

Bootstrapped businesses, async & remote with Amir Salihefendic (CEO @ Doist)

Discover how Amir Salihefendic bootstrapped his way to success with his company Doist, challenging the norm in the tech world! Tune into our latest podcast episode where we explore sustainable business models and effective asynchronous communication.

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Three years of MarsBased podcast - Life on Mars

Recap of the third year of the Life on Mars podcast

In its third year, the Life on Mars podcast continued to connect globally, reaching audiences in 77 countries and featuring insights from industry leaders. Despite a challenging year, it remained a key platform for MarsBased, fostering worldwide engagement and generating impactful business leads.

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Rocket blast-off

New website!

We have launched our new website to take our content to new heights!

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Passing the baton on a race at night

Passing the baton of our community projects

We are looking to pass the baton on a couple of projects we've been curating for a few years: Startup Digest and Startups.Barcelona. Reach out if you're interested!

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Lights

Betting hard on async

Why async work is the future of work: a life-changing approach for location-independent and happier professionals. A big bet for us, as a company.

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Surf in space

We're riding (yet) another winter

There's a harsh market out there. If you're reading the news, you will know that there's recession, inflation and other money games that will make rich people richer and poor people poorer, as always.

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Camera light effects

Comparing LocomotiveCMS and WordPress

WordPress and LocomotiveCMS are two popular content management systems (CMS) that are often used for building and managing websites. Both have their own unique features and capabilities, and choosing the right one for your project can be a challenging decision. In this blog post, we will compare WordPress and LocomotiveCMS to help you make an informed decision.

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Red traffic light

Personalism vs. professionalism

There's a thin line between being professional and having no limits to what you do for work and how you do it. Overpleasing people constantly might actually be detrimental to your business and your reputation.

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Font Awesome social share buttons are blocked by AdBlock? Here's how to go around it

Font Awesome social share buttons are blocked by AdBlock? Here's how to go around it

So all of the sudden the social sharing buttons disappeared from your website? AdBlock is probably at fault, and here is how to fix it!

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Fireworks

Celebrating with Martian Breakfasts!

As time goes by, we have more stuff worth celebrating in the company going on, so we've decided to take it up a notch and celebrate small and big teams with a joint virtual breakfast on the company!

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No

The importance of saying NO

We have overcome one of the most intense periods at work in the entire life of the company, largely thanks to our ability to say 'no' more than we say 'yes', defying the standards and the etiquette of our industry.

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