Posts from category:romanian internet

Ionut Budisteanu is a child prodigy with a carefully crafted image. He is an inventor, a programmer, a visionary, he has numerous articles about him in local and international press.  His accomplishments include a self-driving machine he did not finish, various robots, but one year ago he switched to cryptocurency. He and some other people […]

One of the complaints I hear a lot in the Romanian tech scene is the lack of support from the press and the blogosphere for the startups, being sites, apps and businesses. I have a few ideas about this, having the most popular Romanian blog, read by journalists, businessmen and other people: the startup/person pitching is shady […]

Brainient, a Romanian startup based in London, was sold today by investors to Teads, a much bigger company in the video ads business, TechCrunch reports. Let’s talk about Emi Gal, Brainient CEO, and what the Techcrunch story does not say: The deal is worth about 15 million dollars and was pushed by the investors, who […]

A policeman stops you on your way home from a party. He asks you if you have been drinking. You put your game face on and say “no”. He is convinced and lets you go. The next day, another policeman, another party, another lie. You get accustomed to lie all the time, and it’s fine, […]

One or two visitor tracking/conversion scripts? How about five? FIVE!!! Cause u really need to know about them visitors, fam! Sorry Avandor and Marketizator, i know you are good guys, but this is too much. Talk about timing: i’ve wrote this article hours before reading Marketizator received 1 million investment from 3TS.

One of the things i dislike the most about the Romanian Tech Scene is the lack of real talk and real results. We have a dysfunctional domain management system, to begin with, and nobody talks about it because nobody wants to upset the powers that be. We also have a lot of programmers who don’t […]

Every couple of months people are finding out that Romania has one of the fastest internet connections on the planet. Us, a small and poor country, the fastest internet? How is that possible? Well, it’s a numbers game. Internet in Romania is generally found in the cities, where it’s easy to put a router in a box […]

Good news two days ago: Netflix expanded to the world. But if you watch the events closely, you see that Netflix did what we can now call “creating wealth, startup edition“: permited users from all over the world to register and will work out the details later. The move is dumb and briliant at the same time: […]

Former Managing Director of Boom advertising company (part of NCH Group) is the new Manager of Madhouse mobile advertising agency. So nice. Boom went bankrupt in 2009, following a disastrous management by Petriceanu and the sales team (Magda Zander and Gabriel Boacă, their favorite saying was “whatever money somebody elses gives you, we can go […]