Category Archives: Business

How cool is that?

…when someone visits the MailChimp office, they plug their name into the iPad and select the employee they’re visiting. Meetcha then takes the visitor’s photo through the iPad, and emails their name and picture to the employee they selected. Finally, a visitor badge is printed off that clearly identifies the person and includes the date they checked in so they can’t sneak in later. Guys, you should release MEETCHA as a public product. I’m sure it will save lives of … Continue reading

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Change the world. Think different.

later edit: MacOS eastern egg – the same words are on the TextEdit (the Mac notepad) icon.

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State of the Internet – Adria Market (by Gemius)

The aim of “It’s summer – let’s go south!” report is to provide an insight into the landscape of internet in such Adria region countries as Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Serbia. Data shown in this report include general information on total population, online population and internet penetration on these markets as well as socio-demographical data of Adria internet users, information on the key players on those markets and the most recent technological trends. More. View more … Continue reading

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Reword!

Here’s a great video promoting some online copywriters. (found on Facebook)

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Next step in “daily deals” industry?

1. First we have Groupon & LivingSocial + hundreds of clones. 2. Next natural step was to put those hundreds clones together and create daily deals aggregators. Most successful in Romania (ultra small market compared to US or UK) manage to cash in several k’s euros/month through affiliate marketing. 3. Everybody is waiting for the announced Google Offers and Facebook Deals. 4. First niche “daily deals” site is announced today: mom.com (by cafemom.com ~ a mothers community) 5. What’s next?

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Love

Love. Love your company. Love your co-workers. Love your investors. Love your partners. Love your suppliers. And most importantly, love the people you come home to — the people whose support makes it possible for you to get up and do it again each day. No #13 from 13 Things You Must Do Every Week As A Startup CEO Image source.

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Folded map. Unique concept?

A couple of days ago there was some buzz on Twitter about the truly original header of Campaign Monitor Worldview feature. It’s indeed a fresh and new approach: But 4 months ago, a Romanian designer, Claudiu Cioba, posted this on dribbble:

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Openness

MailChimp is a service I use both in private and also at my work place. Couple of days ago they introduced a new feature – co-branding – a feature that just gives the option to play with color themes and upload a header image and logo to customize your MailChimp experience (very useful for your clients). I just fooled arround with a random image and logo and posted a screenshot on Twitter. Guess what? Who’s this guy? Well …it’s MailChimp … Continue reading

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Încă una despre România

What if I told you of a place where there is a growing and vibrant IT entrepreneurial community, and yet it is in a country that lacks a single university in the top 500 in the world? This is exactly what I found in Romania these past few days. via: Does an Innovation Ecosystem Need an “MIT” or Will Evita Perons Do?: A Romanian Tale Asta apropo de postul anterior. Cred că o sa mai adun fragmente pe subiect aici. … Continue reading

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Poza anului 2011

Nenea Barack Obama a luat cina cu niste greuceni: in stanga lui Steve Jobs (Apple), in dreapta Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), in capul mesei – plan indepartat – Carol Bartz (Yahooo), fata in fata cu Barack, fostul meu sef, unchiul Larry Ellison (Oracle), in capul mesei – plan apropiat – Eric Schimdt (Google) …si alti comeseni :) (gazda – John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) si alt comeseni: Dick Costolo (Twitter), Reed Hastings (NetFlix), Arthur Levinson (Genentech), John L. Hennessy … Continue reading

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