What the Next Prime Ministe Should Do For Entrepreneurs


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eptember in Spain sees a resumption of campaigning for the General Election due on


the 20th of November next. The main issue is jobs and having shown very little interest in the entrepreneur ecosystem in the boom years, both candidates are now hurriedly arranging “listening meetings” with the CEOs of successful startups


to what they can do to kick


meetings tend not to go well. Politicians are by nature risk averse and entrepreneurs are risk chasers. Talk


of reform scares


know start


the sector. Typical of this genre was the meeting between Martin Varsavsky, the CEO of FON, and Alberto Rubalcaba, the candidate of the Spanish Labour party.


Behind the photo op, these 30


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them. What they want is to be seen on the news opening things e.g. factories, roads etc. what they get is a reality check that they are part of the problem and that mostly, they should do less and not more. But what if a politician emerged who really wanted to do the right thing. Is there a clear, actionable, representative list out there of what needs to change?


Jesús Encinar is the founder and CEO of idealista.com, the leading real estate portal in Spain. He is also the founder of a number of


other Internet businesses such as 11870.com and floresfrescas.com as well as an investor in Rockola. fm (Spain’s version of Pandora online radio). Last June, he asked on Twitter what ideas would be the most important to quickly increase the number of successful start-ups in Spain. Surprisingly for a country supposed devoid interest of entrepreneurship, he got hundreds of responses. He grouped the most direct and actionable suggestions he received and published them on his blog. They represent as good a guide as any to a politician who genuinely wants to


help Entrepreneurs create employment.


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