A few days ago, I learned via email that the World Economic Forum (WEF) had selected me to be part of the YGL (Young Global Leaders) class of 2012, this information is being made public today. The World Economic Forum among many other things organizes every year an annual meeting in Davos, without a doubt [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 “>
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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
