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Company 11 Mar 2024

The value of face-to-face talking: learnings from the Localization team

Meet the Mews Localization team Say a virtual hello to the Mews Localization team. Consisting of Wendy, Janka, Max and our Translation Manager, Naomi, we’re a close-knit (though...

Company 8 Mar 2024

International Women’s Day 2024: how we inspire inclusion at Mews

Meet Women@Mews ERG Exactly one year ago,Women@Mews ERG was born. What began as an Employee Resource Group aimed at fostering networking and skill...

Best practices 22 Feb 2024

The best books and podcasts about hospitality and tech

The best tech and hospitality books Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara Category: Hospitality

Industry trends 22 Nov 2023

Mind the Product London 2023: insights and lessons learned

The Mind the Product community will always hold a special place in my Product Manager (PM) career. As a PM in Croatia working for a Croatian company...

Company 14 Nov 2023

Breaking taboos at Mews: menopause in the workplace

Creating a safe space to discuss menopause This brings us to menopause, a topic that deserves more attention and less stigma. To celebrate World...

Product 8 Nov 2023

Break the process: thinking differently about product design

Note: this article first appeared on Carlos’ substack.

Best practices 30 Oct 2023

Lateral thinking in content design

The search for inspiration At first, I thought his answer was a little weird because I thought that it would make sense to lean into my field. But...

Best practices 23 Oct 2023

How to encourage a culture of experimentation in a scaling organization

The benefits of experimentation at scale An experiment can be as small as a button click or as big as a series of workflows in your product. And to...

Company 19 Sep 2023

Unleashing the future of payments: insights from Money20/20 Amsterdam 2023

Who are we? Medina: After starting as a test engineer, I transitioned into product seven years ago and now bring 12 years of experience to the...

Best practices 31 Jul 2023

Purity of purpose and the art of writing modern product documentation

Creating purposeful documents involves a two-step process. The initial step entails identifying a suitable purpose for the document, while the...

Company 25 Jul 2023

Keeping the start-up mindset alive: maintaining innovation in a scaling..

1. Empower your teams Workplace culture isn’t the main thing people look for when joining a company, but it’s certainly one of the reasons people...

Company 19 Jun 2023

To read or not to read: product content and user disengagement

Why user disengagement should be your guiding principle Everybody loves saving time. Imagine if you wanted to write an email and you needed to...

Company 9 May 2023

Being a working parent at Mews

Parenthood at Mews In those early years of being a start-up, Mews simply didn’t have that many parents working with us. Most likely the fast-paced,...

Company 3 May 2023

Mews Growth Program: kick-start your career in hospitality tech

What is the Mews Growth Program? The MGP aims to help students and recent graduates develop their skills through a one-year full-time work placement...

Industry trends 25 Apr 2023

How innovation can help exceed guest expectations and solve the staffing..

Travelers are more demanding Hospitality has evolved. In the past, we were largely supporting travelers over long distances, those who needed to...

Company 5 Apr 2023

Mews POS, one year on: behind the scenes with Saša Šarunić

A year ago, Mews acquired Bizzon, an innovative POS software, to expand its fintech offering to hotels and their F&B teams. This proud strategic...

Company 8 Mar 2023

International Women's Day 2023: equity at Mews

By now, you probably got the memo: women can buy themselves flowers and write their names in the sand. Drawing lines in the sand feels especially...

Company 6 Feb 2023

Life as a Mews Sales Manager

Mews is always looking for world-class talent across all functions of the business. This week we’re chatting to Luc van der Donk about one such role:

Product 11 Jan 2023

Introducing Mews Community: the new hub for hoteliers

Who’s the best person to ask for advice about a product or software that you’re using? Someone who’s already using it. There are thousands upon...

Company 28 Dec 2022

How a Donut changed my role at Mews: Mewser stories

My F&B beginnings For my entire working life I’ve been part of the hospitality industry. You might even say that I grew up surrounded by it....

Company 22 Dec 2022

Life as a Mews Sales Director | We’re hiring in DACH

In the five and a half years I’ve been at Mews, so much has changed. But the most rapid growth has come over the last year, and with hugely ambitious...

Company 16 Dec 2022

Life at Mews: Spanish stories with Albert Arranz

Albert Arranz was asked to join Mews three times before he took the plunge. A Barcelona native, he worked as General Manager at Golden Tulip in his...

Company 1 Dec 2022

Life at Mews: off-grid Spanish stories

Mews is a remote-friendly company. In other words, you don’t have to live close to one of our offices – or any office at all – in order to work for...

Product 29 Nov 2022

How documentation and software are the same

1. Problem decomposition Breaking problems down into smaller, solvable parts

Company 15 Nov 2022

Life at Mews: Spanish stories with Francesco Longo

You may have heard us talk about how amazing the Mews culture is. If you haven’t, your first port of call should be the culture section on our...

Company 3 Nov 2022

Building a Mews community in France

Mews community in France At the time of writing, there are more Mews hotels in France than any other country. That means we have a large pool of...

Company 27 Sep 2022

Knowledge is power: giving the unemployed a path into hospitality

Good Training Program 100% of Good Hotel’s profits go towards helping people. In particular, towards educational projects. “Everything the Good Group...

Best practices 22 Sep 2022

Perfecting financial statements: how to prepare for outside investment

Set up your chart of accounts The first step is always defining your reporting structure. The US GAAP/IFRS financial statements are usually reported...

20 Sep 2022

A day with Gibson Biddle: product strategy tips from the master

Last month, I was fortunate enough to be invited to a workshop with Gibson Biddle, former VP of Product at Netflix between 2005 and 2010, and it did...

Product 14 Sep 2022

Empowered by data: how to drive faster and more impactful product decisions

Leverage data to fuel growth In a world where we all have access to unlimited information at our fingertips, we’ve become so accustomed to being able...