Softwin, well known for its anti-virus leading product BitDefender, is hiring in the Silicon Valley. The successful Romanian company discreetly opened its antenna in Mountain View some months ago. You can see now open positions on their website. Moreover, I found out today that Softwin would be hiring engineers too and I expect these “rumors” […]

The fever of startup plans is everywhere, as proven by a controversial article from money.CNN entitled “How to build a Bulletproof startup” ; a pretty scary article, if you ask me, assembling plenty of todays common knowledge and infos on BIG IDEAS, Team, Angels, VCs, etc. Useful info for the noobies, but lousy info for […]

I had no idea until today when a friend sent it to me via IM, of the existence of Yahoo!Shareholder , where people interested in Yahoo can find more on its internals: financial reports, stockholders presentations, etc.
Plenty of interesting infos, of which I read an amazing pdf, pretty large(12MB download) on Yahoo’s current and […]

Sometimes I feel up, sometimes I feel down. The problem is that in the last month I’ve been on the down side.
The two or three of you who read this blog probably know already that I’ve been dreaming of being my own boss for a while now. I remember being a fourth-year college student, more […]

The 4th day had the final lecture of Dennis Ray and a quite interesting talk of Robert Maxim about Ensight, Management Consulting and his captivating success story (which reminds me: they have an internship program that you can apply for over here).
The 5th and last day:  competition of business ideas and plans. The jury: Steven […]

The event goes on, socializing is much easier now after the team-building exercises from Cristian(I often overreact regarding these things - most people around liked him A LOT, so I guess I’m probably not the best judge of character).
Dennis Ray amazes me every day, the savy aged-guy, brilliant and enthusiastic, with a HUGE experience in […]

E3 - Electronic Entertainment Expo - closed on Friday. E3 is the biggest annual event in the game industry.
I went to LA with my company, expecting to see interesting achievments or trends in mobile entertainment. Unfortunately, that was the weakest part of this E3. Except Nokia / N-Gage with its spacious booth, nothing significant was […]

Personal opinions:
Dennis Ray is a great speaker with a great background in studying this “interesting breed” of entrepreneurs, especially in exotic countries such as Vietnam, China, Singapore, Belarus and others(now Romania as well).
Very nice brainstorming on “the entrepreneurial mindset” - systematic search vs accidental discovery of opportunity.
The Asian model of organic growth vs the western […]

Via Razvan Antonescu, I got to an interesting reading on 7 reasons why web apps fail, a refreshing new(or old) look over the Web 2.0 scene. While my opinions on Web2.0 are already known, this article makes a nice point: perhaps it’s not the fault of Web2.0 per se, but that of the myriads of […]

I found yesterday about an interesting event/conference on entrepreneurship, now at its second edition, called Good2Go(here is the presentation page); while I don’t know almost anything about the guests(their CV’s are linked on the page above), the topics of discussion seem quite interesting.
The downside? Limited places, therefore motivation letter and admission interviews. I’m applying as […]