But Not All of Us Are Moving to Madrid

Hello, Matt here. Since two people have already congratulated me on my move to Madrid, I thought I should mention explicitly that Cedric wrote the last post, not me. You can tell us apart because nothing ever strokes me when I enter a room. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

I’m still in Prague, but a move may be in my future as well. Stay tuned.

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Why I Am Leaving Prague For Madrid

Have you heard of MobuzzTV? If not, you are missing something big. If yes, well then you already know MobuzzTV is an award-winning online TV network. A kind of CNN 2.0. Every day, MobuzzTV produces and broadcasts 5 different shows in 3 languages for the web and any video-enabled mobile device out there (phone, iPod, PSP, etc).

As it happens, MobuzzTV is based in Madrid and its founder, Anil de Mello, recently invited me to visit his headquarter and offered me a job. I am now happy to officially announce I have moved from Prague to Madrid to become MobuzzTV’s new Chief Operations Officer.

For the past 12 years, I have been running Internet Start-Ups in Paris, London and Prague so I thought Madrid was not a bad location for my next career move. More seriously, I wanted to share in this blog post the top reasons why I have decided to join MobuzzTV.

1/ The team.
You know a company is healthy just by looking at the moral of its team. The first thing that stroke me when I entered their offices was the overall feeling of happiness. It was one of these “if you are having so much fun at work, you must be doing well” moment. I guess the fact they have cute and energetic female blond presenters walking around is good for the moral of the opposite sex. Recently we have been joined by GabeMac who, bless him, miserably fails in the blond female department.

2/ The space
Online videos is a fast growing space and with the global rollout of broadband and super broadband, the web needs more quality content (Would you like more Mentos with your Diet Coke?). This is how MobuzzTV is positioned: Professional Content. Each program is hosted by a talented presenter and targets a different audience. We shoot and edit our own programs in our TV studio in Madrid before it becomes available on the web, in iTunes and on your mobile video device.

3/ The Founder
I first met Anil de Mello 2 years ago at the Monaco Media Forum and we immediately realized we were on the same wave length. Like me, Anil is a serial entrepreneur and has been carrying MobuzzTV on his shoulders for the last 3 years. We complement each other very well (he’s chaotic and I’m maniac) so I’m very excited to help him build on his vision for the company. Amongst MobuzzTV shareholders we have Martin Varsavsky another succesfull serial entrepreneur and Enrique Dans, a professor in one of the top business school in the world and one of the leading Spanish blogger.

4/ The Company’s success so far
Like most internet start-ups, MobuzzTV was started in Anil’s spare bedroom. In 3 years, MobuzzTV shows have been viewed 500 million times. Currently, shows are viewed more than 6.5 million times per month. Recently, MobuzzTV has attracted top-tier brands (Levi’s, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Honda, Adidas, Disney amongst others) as sponsors. In other words, we are talking here about a growing award winning start-up with existing revenues (how peculiar I know!).

5/ The potential
MobuzzTV has great potential both in term of audience and revenue growth. We are already planning to launch a few new shows before the end of the year and we are lining up a few renowned partners to work with us. In fact we have some really cool news coming which we will announce in the next few weeks.

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