Switched to WordPress

Tumblr is uber-sexy and it had served me pretty well so far. But my homepage was way more than obsolete, and I am getting used to the capacity and flexibility of the WordPress platform (administering 4 WP blogs, if I remember well). Add these to the greek easter “holidays”, and what you have is a …

Cease and Desist or Start to Exist?

Every new day brings a new opportunity and today I had the fortune to enjoy a unique experience; the one of receiving a cease and desist letter. The email regarded the “use of XXX company’s logo and trade name in my websites http://datamine.it & http://gtziralis.com/post/59121553/introducing-datamine-it” and I cannot put it better than pasting some (slightly …

An holistic approach to investment assessment

A paper I co-authored is finally published (in early view, .pdf) in the journal of Managerial and Decision Economics. Along with Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, Athanassios Rentizelas and my professor Ilias Tatsiopoulos, we proposed an holistic approach to investment assessment, a process of value that may be highlighted under the current economic situation. To make a long …

Europe’s Best Young Entrepreneur by Business Week – close enough, or not

About a month ago, I receive an email from Business Week, stating that I was one of the about 40 nominees for the Europe’s Best Young Entrepreneur 2008 contest. That was a really pleasant surprise, asking me to reply with more information on my business, next to confirming that I am 29 years old or …

Introducing HowSocial.ru, a project of Startup Weekend Athens

I’m too exhausted to write about anything but my excitement on participating at Startup Weekend Athens, as @andrewhyde said “the biggest SUW ever organized in Europe”. We set up a fantastic team by @kcorax, @dimitristi, @netwire, @ageor and @thimios and turned a rough idea (“friendfeed counter anyone?”) conceived about an hour before the event into …