Luis Iván Cuende

When two months ago I received an email inviting me to the Forum Impulsa and two weeks ago the scholarship to go, I thought it was good.

But it wasn’t good. It was incredible.

The first day all the young people of the Forum did a huge brainstorming and networking, a creation workshop.

The second day was the best, and one of the best days of my life. Very good speakers talked about entrepreneurship, enthusiasm, education and transformation of the world.

I talked (okay, my english isn’t the best you have ever seen) with very very important people as Magnus Örn Scheving, Tariq Krim and, in my native language with Pau Garcia-Milà

Magnus project is curious: fight obesity using a TV series.

Tariq created Netvibes, that was a very successful startup, and now it’s working in his 2nd startup, Jolicloud. One of the most interesting parts of Jolicloud is its web shell, and we’re developing something similar in Asturix, Asturix On, so I think we should maintain contact.

Pau is the founder of eyeOS, the leader of web desktops nowadays. IMHO he is the referent in entrepeneurship in Spain.

All the people in the Forum said that the spanish education system is a shit. And it’s true. But when I say “This education is a shit” in Asturias, people thinks that I’m mad. It’s a fact that Spain is going to crash if we don’t change the education now. We have to change it NOW, if we think we will be able to do it tomorrow, we’ll fall down quickly.

And I think the main message of the Forum was: It’s the moment. Don’t make it tomorrow if you can begin now.