Chief government and shareholder of Europe Press and one of many first enterprise angels in Spain. A non-public investor in expertise start-ups who was current in the course of the child steps of a number of defining tasks of Spain’s dot com period. Extra just lately, he’s been concerned in nascent corporations similar to www.bankimia.com, amongst numerous different issues.
Luis Martín Cabiedes is one busy man. However he nonetheless manages to find time for his hobbies. Right here he takes day trip of his hectic schedule to offer us a guided tour of his travels and favorite pastimes…
You appear to have a particularly busy schedule, do you discover time to journey and disconnect from on a regular basis life?
The reality is that my work as an investor may be very intense at instances, however has the benefit of giving me nice flexibility to organise my time. So that is how I handle to flee for a couple of weeks every year.
We hear you’re into golf, so the place have you ever hit your finest shot?
Hmm, golf… I’ve let it go a bit. As soon as I shot a gap on a course in Marbella. Doubtless my finest shot. Nevertheless it was pure luck!
Crusing is one other of your passions, do you suppose you’d be capable of spend a couple of weeks misplaced at sea?
I may… However what I actually get pleasure from are days out crusing with my spouse. I not often go on lengthy journeys. I do spend weeks crusing, however sleeping in a heat and dry lodge earlier than doing it in the course of the day.
It’s at all times good to get a suggestion; are you aware of a specific vacation spot you’ve been taken with?
“My holidays are at all times related to my hobbies, and I take heed to suggestions. However the fact is that I’m fairly straightforward in relation to locations. All I would like is the ocean, wind and solar – and I don’t must go far for that!”
Whenever you go on vacation, do you employ new applied sciences, like an iPhone or iPad, to maintain every part below management?
After I go on vacation I often attempt to give my devices a while off too. I take advantage of them appropriately. The boat already has sufficient digital gadgets so I don’t have to convey extra.
It’s essential to must journey lots in your line of labor, what’s the one merchandise you may’t go away dwelling with out?
I’m going round with a backpack containing two luggage of issues I at all times have to have with me: a telephone, a Mac-Air, an iPod, a e book and a great deal of cables and connectors. With this, a visa and a social safety quantity, I usually go on surprising journeys with out even having to cross by my home. You may at all times purchase the rest on the way in which.
Have you ever ever missed a flight that was taking you to signal a serious deal?
Sure, however I confess it was on objective. It was an excellent excuse. Often, if I’m signing one thing or doing one thing necessary I journey there the day earlier than.
Do you think about your self to be an intuitive one who can predict when tasks will succeed?
In no way. After 15 years of taking a look at tasks, I nonetheless don’t belief my instinct when somebody exhibits me a brand new one. It has failed me so many instances! My instinct first informed me that Privalia would by no means work. With Trovit I didn’t even have instinct as a result of I didn’t perceive what they did.
“God hasn’t given me instinct so I’ve to verify with evaluation.”
Do you agree that on the earth of enterprise, simply as in life itself, you must by no means say ‘by no means’?
Completely. Particularly in my world of expertise startup funding, the place there are such a lot of uncertainties and so many adjustments.
“It’s like how all good sailors ought to pay attention to the change within the wind and be keen to vary their course.”
Is there any marketing strategy which you’d by no means guess on?
Solely people who that appear unethical to me. I imply moral within the broader sense of the phrase, I’m not referring to clearly immoral issues right here, however these issues that simply aren’t my factor.
It’s a good time for on-line enterprise in the intervening time, would you spend money on something tourism-related on the web?
Little doubt, however it must be a special enterprise mannequin. With conventional fashions, promoting tickets and lodge reservations, there may be now a lot competitors that it is rather tough for an entrepreneur to realize a foothold.
Do you share any hobbies with Cabiedes? What merchandise do it’s important to have in your baggage once you go away?