It was so obvious it had always been there. It had always been right in front of me, but I didn’t see it until thursday.
Eventually, the IDEA came down onto me.
I passed it already through the sieve of my friends, and the idea still stands. It may not be original, it may not be sustainable. […]

As you can see, I haven’t updated in a while this little blog, and I’m sorry.
There are two reasons/excuses for this.

First of all, I haven’t got too much time. Early in the week, a friend of mine asked for a bit of help for a tight-schedule Java Swing GUI development; building a front-end for a […]

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 […]

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 […]

Via Lifehacker there is a pretty neat interview with a self-made man aka Marc Allen over here. While I’m not at all a fan of “how to make money fast” and “believe and meditate and you will succeed” mantras, there are some interesting and pretty motivating quotes in there; such as
Take risks. Don’t fear failure […]

I learned a new term today: micro ISV. Actually, I lie: I learned two new terms: ISV and microISV. I learned those new words and, most important, new IDEAS, by having as starting point Joel Spolsky’s today post Foreword to “Eric Sink on the Business of Software” .
In the post, besides introducing us to Eric […]

One of my old highschool-mates decided, a year after graduating from college and trying ordinary development jobs, to go ahead and try to make it on his own. His goal? To build the computer game that would make him rich.
I wish Catalin all the luck in the world. I want the best for him, and […]

Caterina, one of Flickr’s founders, has an insightful post on “it’s a bad time to start a company”. It is a definite worth-reading, along with the comments. One interesting thing I learned: I had no idea Flickr was struggling for survival before being bought; I actually believed they were booming, that the AdSense and the […]

I read several interesting things today, and I might as well link to them since they somehow tackle the web2.0, entrepreneurship, marketing and ideas :D

Russel Beatie talks about Apple iPod Shuffle making a pretty good point:

“…if you’re going to launch a new product… the product doesn’t need to be innovative … you need to make […]

One after another, there are new rounds of acquisitions; of companies, of web services, of web sites. I’m reading right this moment a discussion from Memeorandum, starting with an article on a 23-year-old fresh millionaire.
CHRIS SHARKEY is 23. He has just got a cool $6 million plus, his share from the sale of a holiday […]