Juan-Luis Hortelano

Co-founder and COO

2014 - Current

Managing Blinkfire operations in Spain/Europe

Presidente

2020

Startup Valencia is a private non-profit organization that represents startups in Valencia Region to be the benchmark of an innovative and technological companies ecosystem, boosting the competitiveness of the Valencian economy.

Advisor

2010 - 2020

At Ambitiona we help Internet companies who want to grow or enter new markets.

Director

2012 - 2017

Director of Plug and Play accelerator in Spain. During this 5 years, at PnP we have invested in +70 startups. 10 acceleration programs

Country Manager Spain

2010 - 2011

Ceo

2002 - 2011

Management of the company (HR,marketing,business development) Focus: After starting as a little web development agency we re-focused and actually are mainly working with companies/projects/startups willing to enter the Spanish speaking markets (Latin America and Spain). We worked together with Feedburner building the first RSS advertising network in Spain After that we help other startups like Cocomment with their localization/translation efforts. Now we are working with Qype, Europe´s biggest user generated content business review site, running all their operations in Spain. Other services Market Analysis and research Web site traffic growth, web site UI and information arquitecture. Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development. Online Marketing. Advising new businesses

External country manager

2008 - 2010

Since July 2008 working with Qype together with my company. First we did the translation and localization of the spanish version. Managed the launch, and since them doing all the related business operations (marketing, community management, administration, content)

Visiting professor

2002 - 2004

Visiting professor Master MCM (Master en comunicacion multimedia) E-commerce Module - 10 Hours

Marketing Manager - Market Analyst

2001 - 2002

Market Analysis Online Marketing Offline marketing AECE Meetings

Web Manager

1998 - 2001

Web manager of internet start-up www.immosonne.com (offline ) The most important real estate portal, with the goal of selling residential homes (a catalog of more than 5000 new homes, with full info, virtual tour etc..) across the mediterranean coast in Europe. Responsible for : Online and offline marketing strategies Usability and information architecture Help desk management (cuatrilingual) Partnership and alliances Technical issues (hosting, technology)