The Spanish Entrepreneur Who Launched And Sold Viajar – With Juan Dominguez
Back in the early days of the internet, Juan Dominguez had an idea for an online travel agency. Before he launched Viajar.com to capitalize on his idea, he sold it to Ya.com, a site that hadn’t launched either did have financing. His vision was validated when Viajar became one of Spain’s largest travel sites and he was able to cash in his shares of Ya.com after it went public, but the experience wasn’t as easy at it sounds.
So I invited Juan to Mixergy to talk about what went into one of Spain’s biggest internet success stories, and also talk about what it’s like to launch a business in Spain. Today, Juan is back in the startup world as Founder and CEO of the ad company, Red CPA Adtelligence.
Juan Dominguez is the Founder and CEO of Red CPA Adtelligence, an online ad network and advertising optimization software developer. In 1999 he founded Viajar.com, which went on to become the second largest online travel agency in Spain until its sale in 2007; at the same time he was VP of content, portal and ecommerce in Ya.com, a Spanish portal that we sold in 2001 to Deutsche Telekom and later to Orange.
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Hey everyone, it’s Andrew Warner founder of Mixergy dot com, home of the ambitious upstart. And you guys know what we do here. I bring internet entrepreneurs to come to talk about their experience, how they built their companies, how they created something incredible. And in many cases, how they ended up selling it. And what’s happening is, now that the audience is getting bigger and bigger and more interactive, they are starting...
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