A great & short definition of what a CEO’s job actually is

Today I just read what I think is the best definition of what a CEO’s job is and should be. It’s taken from a blog post by Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD about Steve Jobs. Regardless of wetter its an accurate definition of what Steve Jobs did, it really resonates with me as being exactly what [...]

Interview in spanish for Acens.tv

Acens.tv just uploaded an interview that is a few weeks old, where I talk about eRepublik, social games, angry birds, having a company in Ireland and Apple. Main points are: – eRepublik going well, social games: 60% of social games players are women (not the case for eRepublik). – Social games and Facebook: If you [...]

Rolling out the new iDesks in the office

I would just like to give special thanks to our Friends at Apple for letting eRepublik be among the first companies in the world to get iDesks. Since the roll out this morning, productivity has gone up by 20% and we have been able to always get 3 star ratings on all of the Angry [...]

Online and Mobile Games soon to be 40 Billion US$ industry

Just came across this “Global Videogames Investment Review” presentation and its got some good insights worth sharing. Digi-Capital Global Video Games Investment Review View more presentations from Tim Merel “>

A Flashback on angel investing in Romania and my first investment of 2011: Tjobs.ro

The early days, trying to do angel investing in Romania: 2007-2009 I have been taking it easy on the angel-investing front in the Romanian market for the past 12 months. Actually I thought I was going to stop investing in it for a while so I could better concentrate on developing existing local investments such [...]

Manifiesto para una red neutral

(Si te sientes cómodo y representado por este texto, dale toda la difusión que puedas y quieras: reprodúcelo, enlázalo, tradúcelo, compártelo, vótalo… todas esas cosas que puedes hacer con total tranquilidad y libertad gracias, precisamente, al hecho de que tenemos todavía una red neutral. Hagamos posible el seguir teniéndola)Los ciudadanos y las empresas usuarias de [...]

Over 1 million people have created an eRepublik citizen!

On the 28th of December 2009, the 1 millionth eRepublik citizen was created a little over one year after the launch of the public version of eRepublik. This was a great moment for us and also for me personally as many in the industry (that I won’t name) told us that eRepublik would never interest [...]

Love it or hate it LeWeb is changing Europe’s place in the Internet Economy.

This year I came for the third time at LeWeb, the first time was in 2007, where eRepublik, fresh out of a private beta participated in the Start up competition and won the special jury prize. This was a great event with amazing food and already good networking. I wouldn’t be able to comment much [...]

Manifiesto “En defensa de los derechos fundamentales en internet

I normally don’t post in Spanish but basically had to share this as what is about to happen in Spain is pretty scary. Basically the Ministry of Culture is setting up some sort of commission that could bypass the judicial courts to close down web sites or remove a citizens internet access if they decide [...]

Building upon an idea

I was invited last week by the legal firm Biris & Goran that helped me in parts of the eRepublik Series A round to talk at an event: “IT Start Up How To” they held at the Novotel in Bucharest.The event was very well organized with interesting questions from the audience. eRepublik was out in force amongst [...]