154 articles by Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Good to see you back, Rundit!

Good to see you back, Rundit!

We have joined forces with the Finnish startup Rundit to help them up their development pace with our JavaScript team! Rundit had been our clients between 2015 and 2017, so it's good to have them back!

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Astronaut

What's up?

2020 was quite a wild ride for us and 2021 is off to a good start already. In fact, we've been so busy that we haven't blogged in two months, so it's time to let you know what we're up to and catch up properly!

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All the 2020 episodes of Life on Mars, the MarsBased podcast

In June 2020, we launched our very own podcast, Life on Mars! During the second half of this extremely convulse year, we've released a few dozens of episodes about technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Check them all out in this blog post!

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Scientist

What a cool thing we're building!

Throughout all the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial voyage, one tends to lose focus and forget about enjoying the ride. Also, we tend to focus on our own vision and forget about how others perceive us, which is as important or even more than what we think about ourselves!

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2020

A breakdown of 2020: what a ride!

2020 has been a wild ride, to put it simply. We can't find words to describe such an awkward year, but we want to share a breakdown, month-by-month, of what we lived, to have a recollection of our learnings and feelings as a company.

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Experiments in summer

The best time to improve things in your company is today. Besides today, the best time is summer, when there's less work to do and part of the team is away on holidays. Here's how we improve things at MarsBased during the low season of summer.

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The Martian way

The Martian way

We have been around for well over six years. As we learn day by day, we feel the impulse to give back to our followers and community not only to explain how we do things, but also why we do them.

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Code

A cleaner implementation of Schema.org using JSON

Schema.org has been around for some years now, but recently they introduced a cleaner implementation that doesn't mess up with your code so much as the first one, this time by using JSON.

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This is what we do

We often get asked what are we working on. Here's a comprehensive summary of the projects we're doing right now as a company.

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Depressed man

It's OK to be vulnerable

A couple of months ago, on May 18th, I sent an internal message to our team on Basecamp to cheer them up. We were two months deep into the lockdown, and it was wearing down on a lot of people. Working from home is a blessing when it's your choice, but when you're forced to do it overnight, and your partner just lost her job and/or you can't send your kids to school, things can get extremely tricky.

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Shop sign

Boost your shop sales using an e-commerce solution like Shopify!

It is more important than ever to have an online presence if you're running a shop! Let Shopify help you to do that transition, and learn how our clients did it!

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Seminar event

This is what we learnt hosting two webinars per week

Our first podcast, Life on Mars is now live and available on Apple's iTunes and Spotify, both in Spanish and English! Subscribe now!

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