

In 1996, I won an innovation contest from the British Council and was awarded a scholarship to study for the master's degree of my choice. It all started in Havana, where, in parallel to my university studies in Maths and Computing at the prestigious University of Havana, I had to start doing any kind of business (buying and selling goods, tourist guiding, taxi driving) to help my family survive in the hard nineties. What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea? Bcombinator Team: Sergi Vila, Miquel Mora, Erik Brieva, Jordi Martín and Luis I. Since then, we have launched around 25 startups and have worked with more than 100 entrepreneurs, helping them with our different programs for incubation, acceleration, mentoring, training, networking, international expansion, technology, legal and financial advisory, co-working space, marketing, amnd sales.

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In my 20+ years as an entrepreneur, I have created 6 startups, scaled up 3 internationally, and successfully sold 4 (iSOCO to B2BFactory in 2001, Enzyme to Nexe Group in 2011, Polymita to Red Hat in 2012, and Strands to CRIF in 2020).Ĭurrently, I continue to be the CEO of Strands, expanding the company to lead the digital transformation of the financial industry.īcombinator was launched in 2017. I co-founded Bcombinator to help entrepreneurs to be even more successful than I have been. In this interview, Erik Brieva President and Founder of Bcombinator shares with Starter Story all the history of Bcombinator, the methodology applied for growing startups with success, some business tools/platforms, his books recommendations, and advice for future entrepreneurs: Hello! Who are you and what business did you start? Blog How We Started A $100K/Month Startup Incubator And Investment Fund
