Some time ago i found myself talking with heads of a investment fund looking for opportunities to invest in the Romanian internet. Aside my legendary gloom and discomfort with the way things are going in this industry, we tried to find unconquered niches to exploit (please remember this was a 2010 discussion, some things may [...]
“Why do you clean the sidewalk? Why are you working like a chump for others?” It’s not the first time I’ve heard these words. I used to get out in the morning in the winter when i was young and clean the snow from the sidewalk for the flat i was living with my parents. [...]
This is a picture i hold dear. Taken in 2009, while on a shopping trip to Debrecen. I was living in Oradea, near the Romanian-Hungary border, and going shopping to Debrecen outlets on a monthly basis. Every time, that Trabant was there, no matter rain or sun, clean and shiny. Now i pass by the [...]
I look at some Romanian journalists and TV personalities as they turned clowns because they did not know when to quit (Cristian Tudor Popescu comes to mind). And some others, that knew when the change scenery, because there was nothing left for them there: some took jobs in banks, some opened businesses: Radu Coşarcă, Cosmin [...]
There is a pretty simpley answer on why US authorities are taking down sites like MegaUpload. And it is below. Sites like this have gone under the radar until they became too big and too successful for their own good. In order to survive and pay bandwidth and space costs, they needed to make money. [...]