Vali Petcu blog

…is that u constantly need to write about how good you are at things. Someone launched smth? Yea, it’s nice, i could have done it better! That thing?! Yea, great, but i got this idea that would make it better. All day, all the time, conferences, networking, brag about how good you are. Because usually […]

I took a long trip (3.500km) and i relied on Sygic to help me navigate thru cities, villages and highways in Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Germany. Althought it’s a great tool, Sygic lacks basic functionalities and understanding on what a GPS app should be. First off, i am going to say that Sygic keeps […]

On December 11 2016, Romania had parliamentary elections. Our political system works like this: the party with most elect senators and deputats propose someone to be the Prime Minister to the President, who says yes or no. If it’s a yes, that person forms the Cabinet and starts ruling. So, PSD (Social Democrat Party) won 45%, they enlisted […]

You may have seen this article from Forbes or this one from The Telegraph. They are both about Alexander Adamescu and his dad, Dan Adamescu, and their legal battles with the Romanian authorities.They are paid by a lobby firm, Amsterdam & Partners LLP, working to defend the reputation of both Adamescu. Why would they need that? Well, […]

There is a great sequence in a movie, i forgot the name: our greatest minds are busy creating sophisticated banking products. Kinda true. Our greatest minds are busy creating more smartphones, more cameras, more action cameras, more useless pills, more stuff. More wealth. Not more good for the human kind, more wealth for themselves and […]

People are somewhat surprised that the presidential candidate with most votes, Hillary Clinton, will not be president. 2 million votes more and the loser of the elections will be president, because of the electoral votes and all that. They forgot the same thing happened in 2000, when Al Gore lost to George Bush. Gore had more votes, […]

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 […]

I’ve moved my blog to https a few weeks back and one of the first effects was the total loss of refferal traffic to people i link. Total. After some reading, i found out it was a common problem, but i also found a solution. And it’s a simple one: just put this in the […]

I put my computer in sleep mode instead of shutting it off. It starts faster, it shuts faster. But sometimes when i wake it up, the audio has hickups as in noises and interruptions. The solution is to stop the two services handling audio (yes, Windows has two services handling audio, cause fuck logic) and […]

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 […]