It's not how hard you can hit April 23, 2012, 2 minutes to read myguidie died yesterday. It was one of the few, sane ideas born a year ago during the 1st Startup Weekend Warsaw. Now it’s dead, and the only questions lingering are: what will @olasitarska do next, and what will everybody else do?
I don't want to be in a startup September 25, 2011, 1 minute to read Being in a startup means going to startup events to meet other startups and talk about startups. You may think of a “startup” as two guys working feverishly in a garage and suddenly dropping the bomb of a revolutionary new product onto the unsuspecting world. But what I saw is best summarized by a friend’s comment: “have you actually seen them ship anything?”
It's not a rodeo, cowboy May 16, 2011, 2 minutes to read The market for something to believe in is infinite. I haven’t seen any better evidence of this being true, than during yesterday’s finale of Startup Weekend Warsaw. The team with the most daring, creative, inspiring idea for a project won by a landslide and swept away half of the numerous prizes. Business played second-string.
If you don't appear, you disappear March 27, 2011, 1 minute to read Who are you? How do you expect me to trust you? I know you do, because you’re trying to sell me something. You’re a startup; you put together a cool tool, working with your friends in a garage. You’re ready to hit the market. No-one knows you.