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  Salaries are too low in Barcelona and that’s bad for everyone   Soon Barcelona will host the next iteration of the Mobile World Congress. About 95.000 professionals are expected to visit this city which could become the next hub of innovation within Europe. The chances are actually not that bad. Investment numbers increase, the […]

If you have walked around Barcelona lately I’m sure you have noticed a high presence of cyclists delivering stuff somewhere. Maybe it’s just me, absolutely immersed in the world of startups that notices this, or maybe it’s just coincidence, but I’m seeing more and more of this people riding all over the city in branded […]

Check out the full list of top hiring starups at our new startups tab in JobsBCN. Want to see how this list evolved over time? December 2015 list: Top Startups – December 2015 October 2015 list: Top Startups – October 2015  

    Do you know how many startup founders in Barcelona come from abroad? How many women are among them? And,  how many jobs create the top startups in the city? To answer some of these questions I have been collecting information from various sources and I’ve found some interesting data about the Barcelona startup ecosystem […]

After some years working in startups I thought it was about time to write a blog post with some thoughts and experiences related to the stock options you sometimes get in this type of companies. When I was in Barcelona I often thought about how great it would be if more companies offered stock options. But this thought has changed lately […]

Software Developers don’t like IT Recruiters (Software Engineering recruiters); they chase us, they spam us, they stalk at us. However, there are some recruiters out there doing a great job. The thing is that once you get so many unrequested contact requests then you start feeling harassed and you tend to don’t like them as a group of […]

If you’re young and sharp, programming looks like paradise. It’s more or less a meritocracy, there’s a ton of personal freedom, and you get to spend your days doing creative, challenging work and getting paid fairly well. In case your situation it’s not like the picture I’m showing you, you can call yourself fortunate because as […]

Our third Tech Tour took us to Caravelo offices in Barcelona. This time we were with 15 software developers eager to know more about the tech stack behind the startup. Caravelo was first named Change Your Flight but as soon as they developed more solutions for airline companies its name changed to Caravelo. What it basically […]

    SEO performance is still without a doubt one of the most critical inbound marketing channels going into 2016 . Achieving top rankings in search engines is crucial for most online business –if not for all of them. So, SEO strategy and tactics continue to be one of the most powerful aspects of  any online marketing effort. To this […]

This is the 2nd edition of our “Top Startups Hiring” guide, the last one we published 2 months ago is already outdated because things are moving fast in this city. –> UPDATE!!  If you want to check out the most growing companies in real time just check jobsbcn.com/companies Different metrics could tell us the level of growth […]