Getting from a couple of entrepreneurs to a team of 5 or 20 employees is one of the most difficult tasks startup founders are facing. I call this the transition from being a doer to becoming a manager and then, eventually, a leader. In this post, I will try to provide some reasons why, next …
I recently returned from a trip in wonderful Istanbul, I spent three days there. It was my first time in the city that used to be called ‘the City’ before NYC existed and my second time in Turkey, so I’d like to put here some rough thoughts of mine, next to some amateurish photos. First, …
Spreading thoughts and ideas on doing business and running a business serves as a driving factor for the ecosystem to grow, and that’s what a couple of friends aim to trigger with a new collaborative blog. The attempt goes under the name Manylogue and envisions to become what I’d describe as the equivalent of Harvard …
Reason, that is. Back in ancient times, the classical period arose when the authority of god was displaced by reason. Today, we are lucky to have almost gotten rid of the first, in the context of business at least. However, the very problem of authority versus reason is still there, taking various forms to influence …
We live in social times, yet text triumphs over speech. You feel more connected to more friends of yours than ever before. Still, SMS, e-mail and facebook tend to fully replace your good old habits of phone calls, or even physical meet-ups, too. You don’t look out for news anymore; news now find you. In …
I gave a short talk a week ago trying to address the question of how to become innovative. I tried to sum up and put in a few slides some very basic thoughts of mine out of my very limited experience thus far, and came up with a pretty rough -if not hasty- presentation. To …
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Let me start with this. Incredible is a vast understatement. I happened to spend about a week in India, given the chance of a friend’s wedding. I mostly spent my time in Delhi, also visiting the cities of Agra and Jaipur. As expected, the trip turned out to be quite of an experience, to say …
You guessed it right, it’s my birthday today, a day when famously continuous evolvements are celebrated as incremental ones. And it’s not that I’m feeling older or anything like that, after all I’m yet at the beginning of almost everything I ever pursued. But, let’s face it, abdominal muscles and hair are gradually getting fewer, …
It’s already 20-10, but, to repeat last year’s personal annual report I thought of value, I’m trying here to summarize the most important of my professional activities that took place during 2009. The very limited posts that appeared in this blog didn’t help that much, so I decided to move on to twitter, and search …
It’s not that I’m trying to ‘apologize’ for the past (and future?) failures of mine, nor I’m trying to, let’s say, sweeten the pill to those that won’t make it to the Openfund, or anything related to that. It’s just that what I’m seeing around me, especially in my small country, is a default approach …