149 articles by Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Writing

How to create a damn good blog post

We blog a lot, so we want to share our learnings with you all.

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Man with a book on his head

Lessons learnt: one year running our own business

Time flies. We have been so busy this year, that we have barely had time to look back to all the things we have accomplished thus far. Actually, it’s been a year and a month since we legally founded MarsBased. Here’s what we have learnt in this first year of operating full-time as service providers.

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Dandelion

Our new year's resolutions for 2015

Read about our team's new year's resolutions for 2015.

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Christmas

Our first christmas dinner

Read about our first Christmas dinner (on Earth).

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Team

Dealing with your first hire in a distributed team

Hiring is not easy, and even less so for a remote-working company. Here's how we did it.

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UFO

The MarsBased team grows bigger: the abduction

Read about how we hired our first employee at MarsBased.

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Aliens

The Martians conquer the IronHack

At MarsBased, we collaborate with dozens of different initiatives. Ironhack is one of those we love the most.

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People running

Sport on Rails - How do we keep fit at MarsBased

Mens sana in developer sano.

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Barcelona - Photo by Dorian D1

Barcelona Startup Map (part 2)

Read more about the Barcelona Startup Map, developed by MarsBased.

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Barcelona - Photo by Logan Armstrong

Barcelona Startup Map (part 1)

Read about one of our most well-known projects: the Barcelona Startup Map.

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Balloons

Celebrating the first Martian Year

Before incorporating the company, we operated one year in stealth mode. Here's a summary of how it went.

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Mobile phone with apps

How we make the right app for you (part 1)

We're often asked "what do you guys do at MarsBased?" when we're out there promoting our little dev shop. While it might get repetitive after a few hundred times, it gets never tiring: it helps us to perfect the answer. And actually, it's been a good proof that we were not conveying our message clearly enough through our communication channels.

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