Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The espaola IDAPT wears his boots to MacWorld show

In 2003 a group of friends, and engineering students gathered in a garage. Following in the footsteps and spirit of the pioneers of Silicon Valley began to think in a different company. Jacques Giribet Guadamillas is founder and CEO of IDAPT, a company that emerged from the founding phase in 2006. Since then they have specialized in making boots careful design and attention to ecology.

This week in the fair of San Francisco MacWorld. No one can say that is dedicated to a particular brand because, almost from the beginning, thought that to be useful must be compatible with as many devices as possible. "We always include six pins and can buy additional" says this young entrepreneur.

When they left the magazine market had not only discarded so that idea. Years have passed and still the same scenario. Apple has a 30-pin couplers, handset manufacturers gradually introduced the microUSB, and almost every console has its own system. "When we started it was the boom in GPS, MP3 and portable consoles.

Now with smart phones, tablets and electronic readers demand is even greater," explains Giribet, "will soon be augmented reality glasses that need food." This week they moved to San Francisco where she held an appointment classical fans of Apple's Macworld Expo. The reasons for appearing on that show, beyond making some noise and create new contacts, have to do with how to work the apple company.

"It's a big company that takes great care to detail and work big. For the rest of us do the small leaves. It is a very large gap that leaves us, if you take care of design and quality," explains the entrepreneur Catalan. Since the birth of the company have made designs and testing in Spain, but the processing takes place in China.

They have 25 employees in Spain and many others in China. With legitimate pride, states that "after the Chinese New Year, which is slowing everything, we will open our own factory and workers will double." The star product presented at the meeting of the i1eco maqueros, a charger with a charging socket and a USB, which costs $ 20 (15 euros for Europe) and is made entirely from recycled and biodegradable plastic and a sensor that detects when the device is loaded automatically shuts off.

With some reservation, the employer admits that its turnover is several million euro. Sold in 35 countries, most sales take place in France, Germany and the United States. "Nobody is prophet in his own country", he says, although he believes that this trend will soon change. Just signed agreements to not only sell online but also in large areas.

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