Luis Iván Cuende

The miracle of your mind is that you can see the world as it isn’t.
We can imagine the future, remember the past.
We can imagine what is like to be some other person in some other place.

Kathryn Schulz

Before I die I want to do more than just exist

Life is a game, and if you aren’t in it to win, what the heck are you still doing here?

Linus Torvalds

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work

Thomas Edison

They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same

Kurt Cobain

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Buddha

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough

Albert Einstein

The 27th of January 2012 was an awesome day, as I said in My first startup

I discovered StepOne some time ago, but the first real contact I had with them was when they told me to write a post talking about my experience as a very young entrepreneur.

Since then Kintxo Cortés and I tried to organize a meeting, but as I live in Oviedo it was very difficult. So taking advantage of the travel to create my first startup, we organized a meeting in StepOne offices, at Madrid.

I decided to invite my friend and partner Alberto Elías with whom I created my first startup.

The surprise was that the well-known Internet entrepreneur Carlos Barrabés was also in the meeting. I first saw Carlos at Forum Impulsa 2011 and I was amazed by his vision of entrepreneurship.

He gave us a lot of advices. We learnt a lot in that hour of meeting and we’ll have the possibility of traveling to Silicon Valley this summer.

And he decided to record a part of the meeting, and right now it has more than 5000 visits:

Thanks very much indeed to Carlos, Kintxo and StepOne.

The 27th of January 2012 my friend Alberto Elías and I created our first startup.

We have been working on it since we met in 2011, when we had two awesome ideas that will change the way we interact with technology (I’ll let you know soon).

I have some experience creating projects and making them succeed (as Asturix), but it’s the first startup I create and I’m very excited about it. It’s a challenge.

Creating a startup in Spain is difficult, we had to fight versus the bureaucracy and the closed mind of the spanish society.

As an anecdote, the first notary we called thought that we were planning to launder money, because we are under age (yeah, we thought something like “WTF?”).

If we didn’t have enough problems, we are separated by 800km (Alberto lives in Murcia and I live in Oviedo) but we solved it using Google Docs and making videoconferences almost every day.

In the following months after we met we created our business plan (thanks to CEEI).

Thanks to CEEIM we have a social address.

And thanks to all the people supporting us we are the happiest teens in the world.

We expect to have something to show you in the following two weeks.

Meanwhile, stay tuned!

The mind is supreme, and the thoughts are made in the mind; what the mind visualizes, can be made to exist by taking action

Gauthama Buddha