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Eneko Knörr is a great reference for me as an entrepreneur. I believe he has made a great company out of Hostalia and transmits very good ideas in his blog relating to the world of business and entrepreneurship. He is a simple person, very intelligent and it heartens me to see that after selling Hostalia, he continues to launch new projects within a new company called Ideateca.

Ideateca is described as a factory of ideas, it’s an incubator for internet projects that starts with two initiatives already functioning and with the objective of entering the themes they consider profitable.

There are three projects that are already up and running in Ideateca: Anuncioteca, a classifieds website; Videolandia, a video portal; and two islands in Second Life. Soon they will be launching in Ideateca a flash games portal, applications for mobiles and a service for photologs, amongst other things.

I find it very interesting how Eneko is starting his new business adventure. Being an expert in the world of internet, he has detected those sectors that could attract huge traffic and convert into big business. Through his extensive experience, he will be able to contribute interesting new things in each of those sectors.

Let me conclude saying that in Ideateca they are hiring professionals to work in their projects, mostly they are looking for PHP-MySQL programmers who live in the area of Bilbao.

Lingus.tv is an initiative of the company Las Buenas Lenguas (The Good Languages) that offers a videoblog with a series of tagged episodes in video for learning Spanish.

I think what stands out the most about Lingus.tv is that it doesn’t limit itself to being a videoblog with a series of lessons for learning Spanish, but rather it seeks to entertain in each of the episodes while taking much care in the educational aspect.

Also we must mention the business model of this project: apart from advertising revenues, they have prepared a system to obtain income from premium accounts where they offer teaching content associated to each program. They will also be selling user licenses to schools teaching Spanish.

More information in the interview carried out by La nueva industria audiovisual (The new audiovisual industry, interview in Spanish).

I find it quite amusing to give this news because I think it’s the first investment in a Spanish startup that has been announced directly from Twitter. It was on the 2nd of April when Fernando Egido of CAN and Hector Milla of Balzac TV made comments on Twitter about the meetings they were holding.

It has been since quite some time now that Hector Milla started working on the idea behind Balzac TV. In October, we talked about Balzac.tv, an idea, a voice and a camera. Gradually, the idea has turned into a company that now announces it has received funding.

Balzac TV is a videoblog about innovation. It’s not going to be as easy to make it profitable as a videoblog about cars or videogames, but the truth is that what we can see now is so well done that surely it will become a reference that companies would want to sponsor.

Another business model that surely they will be considering when the time is right would be to sell video content to the traditional media as it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the TV folks are running short of creativity and would like to count on novel content like the one offered by Balzac TV.

Via Carlos Blanco.

Jorge Mata is one of the most prestigious entrepreneurs of the hispanic internet, mainly due to the creation of Myalert (now Blinko) and due to the success of Berggi.

As told by Rodolfo Carpintier, investor in Berggi, Jorge Mata is in the process of starting a new project these days called eGauss, dedicated to online education.

eGauss are support classes for secondary school and high school, given in video by specialized professors. Subjects available at present are Mathematics, Chemistry and Art History.

The business model of eGauss, I believe is spot on. They charge a small monthly quota of 6 euros for access to the content, something which I am sure parents will pay happily to see their children dedicate more time in improving their knowledge of certain subjects.

If in eGauss they are capable of attracting the interest of parents who pay that quota and start generating interesting revenues, there could be other opportunities to create utilities such as an advice section for doubts, database of notes, … it’s clear that the internet could do a lot for education and this could be a good beginning.

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Read the original article in Spanish.