http://gtziralis.com personal webpage, blog and everything in between Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:17:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://gtziralis.com/from-doer-to-leader/ I have lately been a witness to a growing contradiction in the local startup ecosystem. With this post, I would like to call this discord out; I hope it might be of value. By nature, entrepreneurship (or life, if you will) is about finding the right balance in a growing variety ... http://gtziralis.com/in-search-for-a-model/ You cannot expect from a child to be financially sustainable. Yet the next generation is a society's biggest asset. Societies have early been mature enough to realize this and shape forms and structures (from families to student loans) to help children grow up and get educated, enabling them and the ... http://gtziralis.com/between-facts-and-promises/ 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 ... http://gtziralis.com/ramblings-from-istanbul/ In my short career, I'm privileged enough to get in contact with a number of people in the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. With most of them being aspiring or already in the game entrepreneurs, a common question that arises is -no surprise here- how to raise money. That's more than fine, and ... http://gtziralis.com/on-fundraising-a-misconception/ The core problem of a small market is, well, it's size. I'd personally call it as one of the two major problems of the local business ecosystem, with the latter being the risk-avert mentality. Let's keep risk phobia out of the picture for now; I'd like to dig a bit further ... http://gtziralis.com/a-small-markets-perils/ 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/