Posts tagged with:money

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 […]

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 […]

So Sony is selling its Vaio division to some investment fund, because it’s loosing so much money and Sony wants to cut costs. Vaio is a good line of laptops, too bad it is so bad. What I would do is instate a bonus system for people working at Vaio: if you come up with […]

First, two quotes from an article by Kirk Tuck: The vast majority of buyers of all cameras, DSLR’s, mirror less, high end compacts, etc. were hobbyists  and amateur photographers who, after years of pursuing some sort of competence in the craft have come to the conclusion that the whole art genre of photography is somewhat […]

Steve Ballmer announced his retirement. People cheered. Stocks grew by 8%. Microsoft’s business model was simple so far: computer processors are getting speedier, let’s make Windows use more resources so people would buy new computers, new Windows and Office licenses. Pretty good plan. The love chain broke in 2008, because of Vista and the economic […]

The CEO of Central Media Enterprises, Adrian Sârbu, a Romanian, has quit today. He will stay on board until the end of 2013 and then make his next move. He made waves a few years ago when he was named CEO, being the highest position a Romanian entrepreneur has ever occupied The smart money is […]

Companies from Romania are paying great attention to Social Media, that translates into money from content and counseling. Which is great. There have been more money spent in Social Media in 2013 than in 2011 and 2012 combined, or so I feel.

I got a lot of questions about this: what happened last year, how do you see things. where do we go from here? There are a few things that happened in the last 12 months worth mentioning: Some bloggers realized I am not a fool who wishes death on them (as the song goes), but […]

The year started really good. There are a few directions I have noticed going on: Companies moving away from the “like and share” model, as they find out likes do not translate into sales. The smart ones (Coca Cola, Milka) started experimenting with content created for social media. Companies still chasing the like and share […]

Usually, when a startup builds a service/app/site/whatever, their goal is to make it the best ever, so that it attracts users and make money. The big company launches a service with money in mind at every step, the user being third or lower on the list. Google’s Evernote clone and Microsoft’s Bing are just two […]