Luis Iván Cuende

Hello, sir. My name is Angelo Morán, I'm 16 years old. I'm from Palma de Mallorca. I admire you and I want to become an engineer but I feel the necessity to start right now. You're going to start the fire of my dream if you tell me the knowledge that you have: books, programs, etc. Please, I'm begging you. Thanks for all, I hope you can answer me. Take care, sir.

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:28:30 +0200

I don’t have books about programming, I simply search Google.

Maybe this can help you: http://asturix.com/incubator

Avanza 2012

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:05:00 +0200

I was invited as a speaker at Avanza 2012, a free software conference in Montevideo, Uruguay.

It was sponsored by Antel, the biggest telecommunication company of Uruguay.

The event was well organized, the talks were amusing and the speakers amazing.

I met Jon “maddog” Hall for the second time. He’s one of the people I admire more and it’s always a pleasure to meet the godfather of Linux.

Also I met Bryan House, 6th employee at Acquia, Nicolas Bortolotti, Developer Relations for Google and all the other speakers, important persons promoting free software.

I met the President and Vice-President of Antel as well as the uruguayan Minister of Industry.

I met the organizers of the event (Nelson Boffa was one of them).

There was a lot of other people I met there, all of them great.

I ended up liking Uruguay, and what’s most important, its people, very open minded.

holaIO. Public beta (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 11 May 2012 17:08:39 +0200

holaIO. Public beta (Taken with instagram)

New business cards :) (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 03 May 2012 20:05:38 +0200

New business cards :) (Taken with instagram)

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end"

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:26:19 +0200

“Everything will be okay in the end.
If it’s not okay, it’s not the end”

"The value of a piece of software is not a function of the length of its code, or the time spent in..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:14:43 +0200

“The value of a piece of software is not a function of the length of its code, or the time spent in writing it, but rather a function of how much human time and effort it saves, or how much of a need it fulfills”

This is only the beginning of an awesome product (Taken with...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:45:33 +0200

This is only the beginning of an awesome product (Taken with instagram)

My own chair! Thanks to the awesome people of Generación...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:43:30 +0200

My own chair! Thanks to the awesome people of Generación Empresarial! (Taken with instagram)

"When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin. Why? Because when that coin is in the air, you..."

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:09:54 +0200

“

When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin.

Why?

Because when that coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you’re hoping for.

”

HackFwd Blog: HackNow winner launches HolaIO

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:44:10 +0200

HackFwd Blog: HackNow winner launches HolaIO:

hackfwd:

Last summer HackFwd created HackNow, a coding contest for under 18-year olds in Europe. The contest’s inaugural winner was Luis Iván Cuende García. Then at the age of 15, Luis Iván entered the contest with Asturix On, a distributed web-tech based desktop that promises to be a challenger in…

"The miracle of your mind is that you can see the world as it isn’t. We can imagine the future,..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:50:54 +0100

“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"

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:08:39 +0100

“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?"

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:41:14 +0100

“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"

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:12:09 +0100

“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"

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:10:22 +0100

“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..."

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:28:37 +0100

“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"

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:07:08 +0100

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

- Albert Einstein

Meeting @carlosbarrabes and @kintxocortes at StepOne offices

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:02:00 +0100

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.

My first startup

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:32:00 +0100

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..."

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:47:00 +0100

“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