http://gtziralis.com personal webpage, blog and everything in between Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:01:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ The most analytical yet lean 101 text on venture capital investing I was lucky to discover so far is the exceptional MSc Thesis of Shikhir Singh at Cass Business School back in 2005, entitled as "Structuring Venture Capital Deals". Firstly, I'd like to highly recommend it to all of you who ... http://gtziralis.com/vc-101-getting-to-know/ Now that other projects are unfolding it may also be a nice opportunity to re-examine what's the status of previous ventures. And by that I mean websource.it, a simple website that allows you to compare the number of Google results for up to five searches simultaneously. It's a simple way ... http://gtziralis.com/websourceit-wants-you/ It clearly took a lot of time, effort and reengineering (and I need to especially thank my friends and partners Dimitris and George for contributing the biggest part of it), but today I was happy enough to publish the document that brought us a really long way in setting up ... http://gtziralis.com/openfund-the-business-plan/