Vali Petcu blog

Being from a 2nd world country with a history of credit card and shipping fraud, it’s hard sometimes go buy stuff online. Case and point: i want this backpack, which in Romania costs 60€. I added to cart, selected the address and proceeded to checkout. There I found it cannot be shipped to Romania. Ok, no problem. As it’s […]

So, two days after i wrote this, i get an email from a startup, about their new taxi app. Which is the same as all the other 3 or 4 taxi app. I used to use 2, one for my city and the other one for the others, but now the first one has national coverage, […]

I don’t use at all Yelp or TripAdvisor or Swarm or whatever location app is popular right now. I read at one point reviews of bulgarian hotels on Booking.com, but quit after figuring out maids steal only in cheap hotels and only from people carrying their entire jewelery collection with them on vacation. Two weeks ago i took […]

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: […]

I see a lot of chatter about this: why there are not more startups in Romania? What about Bulgaria? Hasn’t Poland bright engineers and idea people? We do. The problem is that 99% of the ideas we see are only marginally improvements over the companies that exist. Usually the ideas look like this: Let’s do […]

Paul Graham writes a long diatribe about how startups dont take money from other people, but instead create wealth. He might be right, but let me remind myself how some of the biggest startups created wealth: YouTube: stole videos from everybody until become so large it afforded to pay royaltlies. Facebook: for the last 2 years stole […]

We all are selling something on social media. Some sell products, some sell services, some sell ourselves. What really bugs me is people that only sell and that’s it. There is nothing else in the world but what they are selling. They have not read a nice article, not have something happen to them, nothing. […]

Drake has a new video out, “Hotline Bling”. He did not put it on YouTube, even though he has 2 official YouTube accounts, but on Apple Music. This did not stop a bunch of fake accounts claiming they have the real video, some of them using thumbnails from the original video to trick people to […]

Seeking Alpha writes: "In a lot of markets we are seeing Tesla doing better than the BMW 7-series, Mercedes S-class, Audi A8 and Porsche Panamera. Tesla can boast real innovation and customers with big money are trying it. I think in the next 10 years Tesla will have medium and compact cars. We are seeing […]

So, Samsung has a new watch and every big tech blog is convinced it’s a winner. Not just a winner, but a sure winner. And this is only because they received access to it before the announcement went public. The real reviews will come when the watch will go on sale. The big blogs (TechCrunch, […]