http://gtziralis.com personal webpage, blog and everything in between Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:45:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I consider myself as being far from a typical supporter of any political party (actually I dislike the notion of being a fan in any context), and in fact I've voted for three different parties in my short career as a voter so far. To be honest, I do not ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/ICJ9CYsbtFI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/ICJ9CYsbtFI/ http://gtziralis.com/endorse-greek-elections/ With 30 more days to go for the Openfund's application deadline, and as I got a closer look at a number of applications already submitted, I'd like to share with you a few comments that hopefully will prove to be useful if you are about to apply, or simply interesting ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/AWL0h38SvVI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/AWL0h38SvVI/ http://gtziralis.com/apply-openfund/ A recent tweet of mine may deserve some proper discussion, let me elaborate it here a little bit more: Let me also state that this is not a ground breaking discovery whatsoever, but it may help you put things into the right perspective and focus where you need to, especially if ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/2lradqpQdhM" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/2lradqpQdhM/ http://gtziralis.com/on-ideas-and-their-value/ The most analytical yet lean 101 text on venture capital investing I was lucky to discover so far is the exceptional MSc Thesis of Shikhir Singh at Cass Business School back in 2005, entitled as "Structuring Venture Capital Deals". Firstly, I'd like to highly recommend it to all of you who ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/yoxCiK1IU6s" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/yoxCiK1IU6s/ http://gtziralis.com/vc-101-getting-to-know/ Now that other projects are unfolding it may also be a nice opportunity to re-examine what's the status of previous ventures. And by that I mean websource.it, a simple website that allows you to compare the number of Google results for up to five searches simultaneously. It's a simple way ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/xGIf3Fg5iKs" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/xGIf3Fg5iKs/ http://gtziralis.com/websourceit-wants-you/ It clearly took a lot of time, effort and reengineering (and I need to especially thank my friends and partners Dimitris and George for contributing the biggest part of it), but today I was happy enough to publish the document that brought us a really long way in setting up ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/uTZqG-1bMAU" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/uTZqG-1bMAU/ http://gtziralis.com/openfund-the-business-plan/ I'm providing here the slides of the presentation I gave a few hours ago at Open Coffee Athens XXIII, introducing the Open Fund. Open Fund presentation at Open Coffee<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/xo2Hok2EkPo" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/xo2Hok2EkPo/ http://gtziralis.com/introducing-the-open-fund/ Tumblr is uber-sexy and it had served me pretty well so far. But my homepage was way more than obsolete, and I am getting used to the capacity and flexibility of the WordPress platform (administering 4 WP blogs, if I remember well). Add these to the greek easter "holidays", and ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/AYR8bzNNSvg" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/AYR8bzNNSvg/ http://gtziralis.com/switched-to-wordpress/ As you grow up, work deteriorates in mails & meetings. This older tweet of mine tends to be an accurate description of my daily schedule lately…<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/ElKlMXsbsJ4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/ElKlMXsbsJ4/ http://gtziralis.com/as-you-grow-up-work-deteriorates-in-mails-amp-meetings/ Every new day brings a new opportunity and today I had the fortune to enjoy a unique experience; the one of receiving a cease and desist letter. The email regarded the “use of XXX company’s logo and trade name in my websites http://datamine.it & http://gtziralis.com/post/59121553/introducing-datamine-it” and I cannot put it ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/Y7oIrUt0yKI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/Y7oIrUt0yKI/ http://gtziralis.com/cease-and-desist-or-start-to-exist/