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Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, May 6th

Sramana Mitra: To open America, you don’t want US investors? Guiller Gaspart: The main problem that I found last month when we were talking with some investors from the States is that they want to invest in the companies that they already are working in the States. Once we open the States, we’ll talk again

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Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, May 5th

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about what happens after you’ve covered all of Spain. Is there any other strategic move that you made that is worth discussing? Guillermo Gaspart: Yes. At the beginning, we were really focused on the product and on the technology. We were investing a lot of money just to improve this technology

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Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, May 4th

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to reach $1 million in revenue? Guillermo Gaspart: It was the second year or third year that allowed us to reach this amount. Sramana Mitra: Clearly, your first point of call is Barcelona. You had contact and friends there. So that was an easy start. How many

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Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, May 3rd

Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit about what you needed to build. You needed to build some software that would allow hotels to manage this process as well as users to make bookings in this mode because none of the OTAs would allow users to even do this at the moment. Guillermo Gaspart: Exactly. We

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Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  European startups are fast gaining maturity. ByHours is a venture-funded company growing steadily and expanding globally. Read on for a wonderful story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of

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