http://gtziralis.com personal webpage, blog and everything in between Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:46:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With all the buzz, chatter and meta-discussions of what it takes to build a great company, aspiring entrepreneurs end up to exaggerate the ‘prerequisites’ and magnify the skills, capacities and luck needed to an extra-terrestial level, after all being more avert or frightened than excited to start-up. While there are no ... http://gtziralis.com/the-3-essentials-to-start-up/ 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 ... http://gtziralis.com/manylogue/ 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 ... http://gtziralis.com/innovation-in-practice/ 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 ... http://gtziralis.com/incredible-india/ 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 ... http://gtziralis.com/11100-28/ 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 ... http://gtziralis.com/2009-in-retrospective/ 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 ... http://gtziralis.com/fail-first/ I consider myself as being far from a typical supporter of any political party (actually I dislike the notion of being a fan in any context), and in fact I've voted for three different parties in my short career as a voter so far. To be honest, I do not ... http://gtziralis.com/endorse-greek-elections/ With 30 more days to go for the Openfund's application deadline, and as I got a closer look at a number of applications already submitted, I'd like to share with you a few comments that hopefully will prove to be useful if you are about to apply, or simply interesting ... http://gtziralis.com/apply-openfund/ A recent tweet of mine may deserve some proper discussion, let me elaborate it here a little bit more: Let me also state that this is not a ground breaking discovery whatsoever, but it may help you put things into the right perspective and focus where you need to, especially if ... http://gtziralis.com/on-ideas-and-their-value/