Team.

STARTUP SYSTEM - GRUPO EMPRENDE! is  a company focused in promoting the Entrepreneurship since 1999.

Director.

Julio Colomer is the director of STARTUP SYSTEM. Colomer has been studying, teaching and practicing Entrepreneurship for the last 10 years. His sources have always been US experts, since Harvard, to Stanford or Babson. Colomer has also studied US experts in New Trends, Venture Capital, Business Angels and a long list of great Entrepreneurs. He wrote one of the first studies about the Silicon Valley Model published in Spain.

When Colomer finished his MBA from ESADE Business School (the #1 European Business School according The Wall Street Journal), he made an Internship in the Business Incubator of San Francisco (California), where he lived in 1998.

Back to Spain, he founded STARTUP SYSTEM - GRUPO EMPRENDE!, where he designed the contents of a complete master degree in Entrepreneurship (online and off-line) for Entrepreneurs and Institutions, and worked since then as teacher, consultant and net worker. He have worked with a great number of entrepreneurs, Universities, Local Governments, Chambers of Commerce and other Institutions all over Spain managing significant projects like the design of the Opportunity Trends Maps of Spain, a Regional Entrepreneurship Network, a Business Angel Network or a public-funded Venture Capital firm. His job has been reported in several national newspapers, magazines and televisions, and he has given conferences national and internationally. Yearly, he has written a report about the Entrepreneurship in Spain.

STARTUP SYSTEM had delegations in Valencia, Madrid and Salamanca, and collaborated successfully with another top Consulting firms like SIPCRE, EXEM CONSULTING or METAFORUM.

Since 1998, Colomer also edited the MAGAZINE-HAZLO.COM, a magazine online about Entrepreneurship. This magazine contained articles and interviews with the main Spanish experts and entrepreneurs.

BONSAI VENTURE CAPITAL, one of the most entrepreneurial and IT-focused Venture Capital firm from Madrid offered Colomer a job as General Manager in 2005. This company was funding various of the Top Internet Companies of Spain (like Idealista, Infojobs, Emagister or Neurona).

In 2006, Colomer co-founded the GRUPO LARGA VIDA. This was one of the first companies of Casual Food in Spain, serving fast-healthy-international-gourmet food in restaurant, take-away, delivery & catering lines.

After this 10 professional years and background, in 2007 Colomer moved to Silicon Valley to develop new entrepreneurial projects.

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