In the latest installment of My Spanish Career, The Local talks to Morgan Howie, an American surf enthusiast and graphic designer who traded land-locked Columbus, Ohio for windswept Cantabria.
Spain has made excellent progress towards slashing red tape and making it easier to do business in the country, a new World Bank report reveals, although there is still work to be done in areas including tax and contract enforcement.
He has been involved in 25 web start-ups in Spain and recently set up Bewa7er, an innovative stock market for cash-starved non-listed companies. Meet Madrid-based Belgian entrepreneur extraordinaire François Derbaix.
Almost a quarter of a million expats accounted for 20 per cent of the newly registered 'autonomo' self-employed workers in Spain in the last 12 months, some 6.2 per cent more than in the year before.
Spain Startup Map, an online startup and investor community, has created an infographic showing that of 1568 fast-growing Spanish companies in their early stages 435 are in Catalonia and 399 are in Madrid.
A growing number of expat entrepreneurs are making the most of new Spanish laws designed to breathe life into small businesses and promote foreign investment. Here, Andrea Maltman speaks to Spain's new crop of expat self-starters.
In The Local's latest JobTalk feature we talk with Simon Gifford, a business consultant and lecturer at Madrid's prestigious IE Business School, about the current state of play for entrepreneurs in Spain and how a new online coaching platform can help start-ups.
