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Joe Haslam

IE Business School

Professor

Professor Joe Haslam is the Executive Director of the Owners Scaleup Program at IE Business School in Spain. This is a program specially designed for small and medium sized companies that want to develop an exponential business model to scale. He is also the Academic Director of the Global Scaleup Program, a joint course offered by IE with the American University of Beirut, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business and the Director of the "Scaling Up For Growth" Programme at William J. Clinton Leadership Institute in Queens University, Belfast. In the International MBA, he teaches an award winning elective called "Scaling Your Startup", in the Master in Management (MIM) he teaches a similar elective called “Scaleup Yourself!” and in the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) he teaches “The Scaleup Mindset”. In addition, he teaches a number of online programs for IE Executive Education. These include “Scaleup Fundamentals” for the Global Online and the Executive MBA Programs and Scale, “Scaleups & Scaleups” in the IE Brown EMBA, a joint MBA that IE runs with Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In 2022, he began teaching an exchange course at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York. In 1998, Prof Haslam was on the founding Team of Marrakech, a Dublin based e- procurement company that raised over seventy five million dollars in Venture Capital and scaled to over two hundred and fifty people. He was the co-founder and Chairman of Hot Hotels, the first company from Spain to be accelerated by the Techstars program in the USA (Boston, Summer 2015). Joe was born in Ireland. He has a B.Comm and an MSc from University College Cork in Ireland. In addition, he has an MBA from IE Business School in Spain and has completed an Executive Education Program on Emerging Technologies from the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He has lived in Spain for over twenty years.
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The Next Big Thing
Jun 5, 2026
10:00 AM1:00 PM
Ecosystem Growth

AI Venture Buildathon by IE University x Lovable

Joe HaslamIE Business SchoolProfessor
Description
Most startup ideas never make it past a conversation. This one has 3 hours to become real. The AI Venture Buildathon is a live, hands-on sprint where participants go from identifying a problem to pitching a working proof of concept, all in a single session. Every step is AI-powered, fast-paced, and designed to compress weeks of early-stage work into one morning. IE University brings the methodology, led by Quico Machín and Joe Haslam; Lovable powers the build. A jury of investors and industry leaders pick the winners. How it works: Step 1: Identify the problem / Step 2: Validate the idea / Step 3: Build your MVP with Lovable / Step 4: Pitch to the jury. 💻 What to bring: Your laptop, a problem worth solving, and 3 focused hours. 🧑‍💻 Who this is for: Founders, builders, and anyone with an idea they've been sitting on for too long. ⚠️ Team size: 1 to 6 participants 📄 Apply to participate. Your profile will be reviewed and you will be contacted with more details.
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