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Eudald Domènech i Riera

Eudald Domènech Riera,[1] ( Ripoll, 1962), is a Spanish businessman linked to new technologies and the Internet, considered "the first businessman in Spain on the Internet."[2][3][4][5][6] He was the founder of Servicom, the first private company to offer internet connection and internet services all over Spain. He was also co-founder of World Online, founder of Telépolis, co-founder of InOutTV, SincroGuiaTV and Total Channel, among other startups.[7]

Eudald Domènech i Riera

Biography

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Domènech trained as a draftsman, although at the age of nineteen he set up a nightclub in his native Ripoll, with a radio station installed in the DJ booth, through which he broadcast commercial advertisements interspersed between the musical pieces. Since then he decided to dedicate himself to advertising and marketing,[6] and in 1993 he started an advertising business in Vich . That same year he founded Servicom, a pioneering internet company in Spain and where he served as executive director until 1995, when he left the company. Since then he has been involved in important corporate operations in the field of telecommunications, although he also suffered various failures.[4][8] The journalist Nuria Almiron wrote in her book Cibermillonarios (2000): "He has gone bankrupt several times, but he has refloated from all of them."[9]

Founded companies

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A company with the name Servicom was founded by Eudald Domènech in 1993, with just over 10 million pesetas.[10] It used to distribute several databases of general information produced by external institutions. In the beginning, the environment supported by Alberto Lozano,[4] worked with FirstClass only for Macintosh, although it was later adapted for IBM-PC and offered selections from the newspapers El Mundo and El Periódico de Catalunya, and magazines such as El Temps . Signing up for the service cost 3220 pta, the connection kit: 4590 pta, and the basic monthly fee: 1380 pta.[11]

Considered the first "independent" internet service in Spain, Goya, somewhat earlier, could not be considered independent or private, since it was created by the administration limited to the university environment and RedesTv did not provide internet access until 1999. After many drawbacks, Servicom became the second internet access provider that tens of thousands of Spanish users met.[2]

After Servicom, in January 1996 Domènech created a new internet portal and the first virtual community in Spain, Telepolis. When EresMas wanted to open its market online, and paid about 14.000 million pesetas for Telépolis, in Retevisión shares.[5] probably the last major independent portal left on the Spanish Internet.[3]

World Online was a European Internet service provider (ISP) co-founded by Eudald Domènech,[12] from the late 1990s with the dotcom bubble .[13]

InOutTV is a company founded by Eudald Domènech in 2000, which allowed you to watch Spanish television channels.[12][14] In 2012 InOutTV was liquidated, with an accumulated liability of seven million euros.[4][15]

SincroGuiaTV is an application launched by InOutTV (Eudald Domènech) to consult the programming of Spanish television channels "in Spain" (analog and DTT).[12][16]

Total Channel is a service with twelve pay channels in Spanish territory, co-founded by Eudald Domènech.[12][17] In 2013 he sold the company to Mediapro .[4]

Work

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  • Negocios 3.0: mitos y realidades de internet y la nueva economía (Ediciones B, 2011). Domènech, Eudald; Almiron, Nuria.[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Sant Eudald, patrono de Ripoll". DaVinci Systems (in Catalan). Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  2. ^ a b Ana Delgado (2019-11-25). "Los pioneros de internet en España, ¿a qué se dedican ahora?". valenciaplaza.com.
  3. ^ a b "Internet les hizo cibermillonarios".
  4. ^ a b c d e Galtés, M. (2020). Barcelona startup: Historia e historias del mayor ecosistema tecnológico y digital del sur de Europa. Temáticos (in Spanish). Libros de Cabecera. p. 29. ISBN 978-84-120675-8-3. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  5. ^ a b Isabel García Méndez (28 September 2021). "Quiénes son los pioneros de los negocios de Internet en España". emprendedores.es. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  6. ^ a b Galtés, Mar (2011). "6. Bolsillos llenos y vuelta a empezar". Aventuras de emprendedores: 57 historias de creatividad y valentía en la empresa. Barcelona: Libros de Cabecera. ISBN 978-84-939268-2-3.
  7. ^ "Architects of Tomorrow Top 10 CAOs to Watch January 2024". Default page. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  8. ^ Tomàs Delclós, Patricia Fernández de Lis (1 April 2001). "La crisis de las empresas de Internet deja un rastro de caídos en España. Los afectados por cierres lamentan que no se valore la experiencia que da el fracaso". El País.
  9. ^ N.Almiron (2002). Los amos de la globalización. Plaza&Janés. ISBN 978-84-01-37801-0.
  10. ^ Saül Gordillo, ed. (2015-03-03). "Eudald Domènech".
  11. ^ Gordillo, Saül (June 2014). Sobirania.cat (Primera edició ed.). Arenys de Mar: Crea't Edicions. pp. 98, 167, 182 i 212. ISBN 978-84-942772-0-7. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  12. ^ a b c d Almiron, N. (2000). Cibermillonarios: la burbuja de Internet en España. Documento (Editorial Planeta) (in Spanish). Editorial Planeta. ISBN 978-84-08-03675-3. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  13. ^ "World Online brings in big gun to get back from Brink". City Wire.
  14. ^ "Techfoundries consigue 10 millones de euros para crecer en Europa". Cinco Días. 3 January 2003.
  15. ^ José A. del Moral (2014-03-26). "Entra en concurso la última startup de Eudald Domènech". gananzia.com.
  16. ^ Txema Rodríguez (15 March 2011). "InOutTV lanza SincroGuíaTV para consultar de forma detallada la programación de televisión". Xataka. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  17. ^ Pedro Santamaría (17 April 2013). "TotalChannel, análisis". Xataka. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  18. ^ "La experiencia invisible". El País. 24 December 2001.
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