Getting ahead as an entrepreneur is not an easy task, and this is why having an expert to help you is a unique opportunity. Knowledge, guidance and inspiration is what Google Launchpad has provided to seven Spanish startups. One of them, NoySi, tells us about its experience.

Over the course of a week a number of startups had the opportunity to benefit from mentoring sessions run by specialists, providing consultancy in different stages of their projects. Silvia Calvet, expert in strategy and new methodologies, was among the mentors helping the teams to get their startups off the ground.

The legal texts that accompany the APIs are often complex and incomprehensible to most mortals. However, you can already see some changes in the terms and conditions of companies like Google.

Expert mentors specializing in different areas, personalized tutorials and master classes, workshops to understand the development of your project... Google Launchpad is all of this and more: a one-week event where startups and entrepreneurs meet experts, investors and mentors.

If you want to simplify the implementation of your projects, you should consider the alternatives offered by SaaS: no servers to install or maintain, no databases or large-scale infrastructures to increase storage capacity.

The data in any Google Spreadsheets table can be transformed into a public URL to enable information to be extracted with a HTTP GET request with jQuery. From there they can be extracted and visualized with any JavaScript library. 

Readers are demanding to be able to consume content immediately and on a multitude of channels, and to achieve this, distributors need to implement an API.

eRevalue in an SME that advises its clients on ways to improve their business models. A year ago, they decided to implement an API, enabling them to develop new products and services more efficiently and responsively.  

Any editorial project needs a decent CMS (Content Management System) so that editors can organize and publish entries easily. There are several CMS developed in Ruby (language) and Rails (framework). They are the best ones. 

The future of the web looks livelier than ever. This is a key time in the development of the web, and it is worth keeping up with all new developments so we can identify the best solutions for our problems. The challenge is to implement a complete development, in a more scalable and maintainable manner.