All Articles 2020/07/13 - Best Productivity Hack: Enough Sleep 2020/07/09 - Quick Wins: Keeping You Moving Forward 2020/07/06 - Effective or Efficient, Which One Are You? 2020/06/22 - The REAL Reasons Why VCs Won’t Invest in Your Startup 2020/06/21 - Weekend Reading: The Making of Prince of Persia – The Journals 2020/06/19 - Finally! The Last of Us Part 2 (Collector’s Edition) is here (no spoilers) 2020/06/09 - Life Changing Books I’ve Read 2020/06/05 - Restaurants as Investment Targets 2020/06/04 - Automation is the Name of the Game 2020/06/03 - The keyboard I use: Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard 2020/05/28 - The Last of Us, Part 2, State of Play 2020/05/21 - How Did We Validate MavenHut’s Solitaire Arena Business Idea? [Video] 2020/05/20 - Napoleon: A Life 2020/05/20 - Big Deal: Joe Rogan’s Podcast on Spotify Only 2020/05/19 - Worldometers.info Get 1 Billion Visits in April 2020 2020/05/12 - How to Validate a Software/App Idea with Less than $200: A Case Study of MavenHut’s Solitaire Arena 2020/05/11 - How do You Validate Your Startup Idea? 2020/05/07 - Is Saturday a Business Day? 2020/05/07 - How Much Seed Funding Do You Ask For Your Startup? 2020/05/06 - Which entrepreneur made tractors before entering the sports car business? 2020/05/06 - Supercell’s business deconstructed 2020/05/06 - How to find a startup cofounder (and convince them to join you) 2020/05/06 - What motivates startup early employees? 2020/05/05 - Don’t start a SIDE business, start a business 2020/05/04 - Startup Founder Work-Life Balance: Is It Possible? 2020/05/03 - Used Lenovo ThinkPad Buying Guide 2020/05/01 - How to Approach Potential Investors by Email 2020/04/06 - Transpose and Remove Duplicates in Google Sheets (Docs) 2020/03/29 - “Natural” Mouse Scroll for Windows 10 2020/03/22 - Install Visual Studio Code on Raspberry Pi 2020/02/28 - February at The CEO Library 2020/02/20 - Mouse Lag in Raspbian on Raspberry Pi 4 2019/12/20 - The Witcher on Netflix. And The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Switch 2019/12/10 - PlayStation’s State of Play games I want to play 2019/12/10 - Avicii Tribute Concert 2019/11/11 - I write at The CEO Library 2019/10/16 - Looking to buy websites! Have one? 2019/10/11 - Apple Arcade, first week 2019/10/09 - The Agony of Trying to Unsubscribe – TED Video 2019/10/07 - Star Trek: Picard 2019/10/04 - October Christmas tree, why not? 2019/10/01 - Don’t start a SIDE business, start a business 2019/09/30 - Wine at EuroDisney 2019/09/27 - Who would you be without Instagram or Social Media? 2019/09/20 - Story driven and story rich games on Nintendo Switch 2019/09/18 - What motivates the early employees to work in a startup? [Video & Transcript] 2019/09/16 - The perfect sunglasses: rubbery, light weight Polaroids 2019/09/13 - Regex crossword and puzzle 2019/09/12 - The richest Romanian comes now from tech 2019/09/11 - How much seed funding for a startup? 2019/09/10 - Where is your company on the Silicon Valley clock? [To Read] 2019/09/09 - I started watching American football at (almost) 40. Here’s why 2019/09/06 - Smooth and silky office chair ride 2019/09/04 - How to find a startup cofounder (and convince them to join you) 2019/09/02 - I unlocked the Portuguese internet 2019/08/31 - Two newsletters, one author 2019/08/30 - How to Approach an Angel Investor by Email [Video & Transcript] 2019/08/27 - Peacocks and sunsets in Portugal 2019/08/22 - “This is such an interesting case!”, the doctor says 2019/08/20 - Weird things I own: the huge tea mug 2019/08/18 - The easiness of city life 2019/08/16 - Weirdly interesting YouTube videos 2019/08/14 - The keyboard I use: Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard 2019/08/12 - Incremental improvements in SEO 2019/08/09 - iPad OS: The best Safari on mobile 2019/08/08 - Battlestar Galactica: a lot of years later 2019/08/06 - Raspberry Pi 4: First thoughts 2019/08/03 - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy 2019/06/13 - Some books I’ve read 2019/04/16 - Apple spends 500+ millions on games for Arcade 2019/04/15 - Portugal’s “secret”: Pastel de Nata 2019/04/12 - The Last “Live Audience” Show 2019/03/30 - Podcasts on YouTube? 2019/01/23 - If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won’t turn on or is frozen 2019/01/05 - Microphone not working in Skype on MacOS 2018/09/19 - Favicons in Safari 12 Tabs 2018/09/04 - No Virtual Machine apps in Spotlight search on MacOS 2018/07/25 - Indie Hackers grew to $5,000/month and was acquired in 10 months 2018/07/17 - Reward Behaviour, Not Milestones 2018/06/17 - The Price of Success 2018/06/10 - The Defiant Ones 2018/05/02 - Using an iPad Pro as a laptop replacement 2018/03/18 - Shitfaced meaning 2018/03/17 - Tea and Milk 2018/03/16 - Why you will fail to have a great career 2018/03/11 - Early Stage Investing is about Trust 2018/01/01 - Books I Read in 2017 – The CEO Library Podcast 2017/12/21 - Add Favicons to Safari on MacOS 2017/12/08 - The CEO Library Story – Months #2 & #3 2017/10/06 - The CEO Library Story – Month #1 2017/09/18 - I launched The CEO Library – book recommendations from the people we look up to 2017/09/11 - Monday Entrepreneurship and Business Links #1 2017/07/28 - There are bad days, too 2017/07/25 - How to Handle the Investor Rejections 2017/07/10 - Difficult Investor Questions for the Early Startup Founders 2017/07/04 - Personal Health and Fitness as a Business 2017/07/01 - Be There and Execute the Plan Every Day 2017/06/25 - The eerie silence of Facebook: Unfollow all 2017/06/22 - I’ve finished the free Practical JavaScript course 2017/06/09 - Subscription Boxes – A great business model :: Newsletter Spotlight 2017/06/02 - Effective or Efficient, Which One Are You? 2017/05/25 - If it’s not “Yes”, look for a fast “No” 2017/05/18 - Thinking of coding 2017/05/12 - The delusion of investor supported startups 2017/05/04 - How I use Reddit and how to make the site useful for you 2017/04/26 - Food for Thought: Over Invested, Less Objective 2017/04/20 - Online services and tools I pay for 2017/04/19 - I almost quit MavenHut 6 months after starting it 2017/04/11 - What’s it like to start a company? 2017/04/09 - RebelBio mentoring in Cork, Ireland 2017/04/03 - Book review: Alex Ferguson – My Autobiography 2017/03/18 - Entrepreneurial Europe vs. Asia and US 2017/01/03 - Best Startup/Business Books I’ve read in 2016 2016/09/16 - Multiplier Skills and Specific Skills 2016/09/02 - Books I Read in the Last 3 Months 2016/08/31 - Experimenting 2016/08/11 - English as an efficiency tool 2016/08/09 - Missing curiosity 2016/05/18 - Games to Play 2016/01/02 - On Quantity vs. Quality 2015/09/09 - Don’t Waste My Time! 2015/01/02 - Book Review: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone 2015/01/01 - Business Ideas: Heaven and Hell Lounge/Club 2015/01/01 - Book Review: The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro 2014/11/03 - Open Finder in Other Folder than All My Files 2014/11/02 - Facebook’s Mobile Apps 2014/10/23 - Investor-Startup Relationship 2014/10/19 - The Power of Not Specialising (sort of) 2014/09/05 - [ToRead] This is why you never end up hiring good developers 2014/09/04 - Terminal tricks 2014/09/03 - Gaming links 2014/09/01 - [ToRead] In E-Sports, Video Gamers Draw Real Crowds and Big Money 2014/08/23 - [ToRead] Are You Building an App or a Business? / The Business of App Design 2014/07/22 - [ToRead] My startup failed, and this is what it feels like… 2014/07/18 - [ToRead] Why We Killed One of Our Biggest Features to Grow Our Business 2014/07/11 - [ToRead] Here’s a look inside a typical VC’s pipeline (a must-read for entrepreneurs) 2014/07/07 - [ToRead] These tips will make you a better product guy 2014/07/05 - [ToRead] A guide to building your app business – Avocarrot 2014/06/30 - [ToRead] How much do Y Combinator founders earn? | 80,000 Hours 2014/06/29 - When Will Your Startup Be Pronounced Dead? 2014/06/18 - [ToRead] Spotify’s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should be Stupid 2014/06/18 - [ToRead] – Thisisgoingtobebig.com – How early should you connect to a VC? Here’s some data. 2014/05/23 - [ToRead] The Right Way to Copy – David Smith 2014/04/14 - [ToRead] The Problem With Profitless Start-ups 2014/03/20 - [ToRead] 50 Articles and Books that will Make you a Great Product Manager 2014/02/16 - [ToRead] The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship 2014/02/13 - [ToRead] How I learned to stop giving advice 2014/02/11 - [ToRead] SaaS presentation 2014/02/09 - [ToRead] #prdonewrong 2014/02/08 - [ToRead] The one rule you need to know about Startup and Product Positioning by @dcancel 2014/02/08 - [ToRead] Do Pivots Matter? 2014/02/07 - [ToRead] 4 Ways to Boost Your Social Media Marketing for Less than $1 Per Day – Jeffbullas’s Blog 2014/02/06 - [ToRead] Life is a game. This is your strategy guide 2014/01/30 - [ToRead] Success at Work, Failure at Home | Scott Weiss 2014/01/30 - [ToRead] Success at Work, Failure at Home | Scott Weiss 2014/01/27 - [ToRead] Why First Time Founders Should Join an Accelerator Program 2014/01/27 - [ToRead] With Traction But Out Of Cash, 4chan Founder Kills Off… 2014/01/24 - [ToRead] Why I’m Moving My Business From San Francisco to St. Louis | Need/Want 2014/01/19 - [ToRead] 100 growth hacks in 100 days: Day 1 2014/01/18% - [ToRead] An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options • Alex MacCaw 2014/01/17 - [ToRead] Our pricing model was broken. Here’s how we fixed it. | Heap Blog 2014/01/15% - [ToRead] How to do a startup in your spare time • Belle Beth Cooper 2014/01/09 - [ToRead] Why Introverts and Comedians Make Great Leaders 2014/01/09 - [ToRead] “We don’t have the luxury to take our time” 2014/01/07% - [ToRead] When I Got Fired From My Own Company • One Entrepreneur’s Perspective 2014/01/06 - [ToRead] Platforms and Networks: Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts of 2013 2014/01/06 - [ToRead] Silicon Valley Lost, And Found | TechCrunch 2014/01/03 - [ToRead] Why Are All These Idiots More Successful Than You? 2013/12/31 - [ToRead] The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2013 2013/12/27 - [ToRead] Why Entrepreneurs Are Bad at Finding Their Competition (and how you can do better) 2013/12/20 - [ToRead] My Startup Failed. Fuck. 2013/12/18 - [ToRead] Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media 2013/12/18 - [ToRead] “Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams, Not Hyperloops,” written by Jerzy J. Gangi 2013/12/18 - [Job] iOS Developer at MavenHut 2013/12/17 - [ToRead] Fake It Till You Make It 2013/12/17 - [ToRead] The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2013/12/16 - [ToRead] The Secret to Making Board Meetings Suck Less 2013/12/13 - [ToRead] The Best Books I Read in 2013 2013/12/13 - [ToRead] Ideas are just a multiplier of execution | Derek Sivers 2013/12/13 - Fallout 1,2 and Tactics for Free on GOG.com 2013/12/12 - [ToRead] How 12 Seconds On The NBC Today Show Blew Up Sales And How We Prepared For The Traffic 2013/12/12 - [ToRead] The Tablet-First Retail Startup 2013/12/11 - [ToRead] Differential | We Build Big Ideas 2013/12/10 - [ToRead] What Bitcoin and Internet of Things Startups Have in Common 2013/12/10 - [ToRead] Best of 2013: The Stories That Mattered Most to Professionals This Year 2013/12/09 - [ToRead] Four Hour Work Week Debunked 2013/12/09 - [ToRead] Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 2013/12/06 - [ToRead] Breaking Down How VC Funds Work 2013/12/06 - [ToRead] Unroll.me 2013/12/05% - [GMT+00002013R+00:00pm05] J+00:00ff 788+00:00338201345 05pm05 312013 31pmk+00:00 60 12+00:00+00:00315412545 312013 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:54:45 +0000pm5445+00:00 $1 1254ThursdayThursday54201312 f2013Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:54:45 +0000 PM12pm338201312, 55400054125 000000p 20 to early investors 2013/12/05 - [ToRead] Could Uber grow by $100B? 2013/12/04 - [ToRead] How to Consistently Write 1000 Words a Day – Search Engine Journal 2013/12/04 - [ToRead] How Writing 1000 Words a Day Changed My Life 2013/12/04 - [ToRead] Resigning from my own business. Reasons and lessons learned « Adelina Peltea Adelina Peltea 2013/12/03 - [ToRead] A clever way to buy Facebook ads based on what your users like (Guest post) 2013/12/03 - [ToRead] How to Find Great Drop Shipping Wholesalers | eCommerceFuel 2013/12/02 - [ToRead] Why only fools write code first | Kareem Mayan’s Blog 2013/12/02 - [ToRead] Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel: Saying no to $3B, and feeling lucky 2013/12/01 - [Tools I Use] Use Evernote WebClipper with Chrome/Safari on iOS 2013/12/01 - [ToRead] Do “Shitty” Work 2013/11/30 - [ToRead] The Open Book Sale of My $600K eCommerce Store (With Financials) 2013/11/30 - [Links] Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing 2013/11/26 - 2013 Young Entrepreneur from Wall-Street.ro 2013/11/19 - Don’t Stop Growing 2013/11/18 - Speaking at How To Web 2013/11/17 - DRM-Free Fall Insomnia Sale on GOG.com 2013/11/16 - [Sunday Video] In-App Marketing: 6 Tips For Maximizing Player LTV 2013/11/15 - Gamers and relationships 2013/11/14 - [Founder profile] Radu Georgescu 2013/11/13 - The Romanian Week in Startups 2013/11/12 - Going Offline When Doing Business Online 2013/11/11 - [To Read] Case Study on Going to $100K/month in SaaS 2013/11/10 - [Sunday Game] GOG.com – Home of Great Classic Games 2013/11/09 - [Saturday Video] Ron Conway at Startup School, Y Combinator 2013/11/08 - Time Zones 2013/11/07 - Be the Good Kind of Agressive 2013/11/06 - Use Your Network to Get Investment 2013/11/05 - [Slides] 10 Secrets I Wish I Knew While Raising Money 2013/11/04 - Getting an Investment Takes More Time Than Expected 2013/11/03 - [Sunday Game] Masters of Doom (book) 2013/11/02 - [Saturday Video] Malcom Gladwell’s David and Goliath: How to Use Small Size in Business and Life 2013/11/01 - Knotch: a $1.5 Million Investment 2013/10/30 - The Unseen Side of Success 2013/10/29 - Most Popular Articles on Facebook 2013/10/28 - How To Web Startup Spotlight Participants Announced 2013/10/27 - Sunday Game: Grand Slam Tennis 2 2013/10/26 - Saturday Video: Talk About Entrepreneurship at TechHub 2013/10/25 - Get More Done: Time Boxed Meetings 2013/10/24 - Number of Employees as Metric of Success 2013/10/23 - Tools I Use: iPad Mini 2013/10/21 - Facebook Page for Startup Founders 2013/10/20 - Sunday Game: Strike Wing 2013/10/19 - Saturday Video: Great Startup Pitches 2013/10/18 - Willpower and Decisions 2013/10/17 - 2 Tips to Get You Into Accelerator Admission and Startup Competitions 2013/10/16 - Financing for an Idea: Get Your First Prototype 2013/10/15 - LinkedIn Pitch Deck, Explained by Reid Hoffman 2013/10/15 - Indie Gaming Reading List 2013/10/14 - You Had the Greatest Idea Ever, Now What? 2013/10/13 - Sunday Game: Gemini Rue (iPad/iPhone) 2013/10/12 - Saturday Video: TED Videos I’ve Seen Recently 2013/10/11 - Luck and Work in Game Development 2013/10/10 - Could We Study Gaming in School, in Romania? 2013/10/09 - Another 30 Days Challenge Down 2013/10/08 - Indie Games: Questions? 2013/10/07 - Two Things: An Exit and a Short Interview 2013/10/06 - Sunday Video: AirBnB – Then and Now 2013/10/05 - Saturday Game: Gravitarium for iOS 2013/10/04 - Blindspots and Co-founders 2013/10/03 - Notes from Mobile User Acquisition Meetup 2013/10/02 - 4 Tips for Bad Weather Productivity 2013/10/01 - Tools I use: StayFocusd Chrome Extension, Productivity Enhancer 2013/09/30 - Huge List with Tools for Entrepreneurs 2013/09/29 - Sunday Videos: The Story of Fab, 9 Months of Super Growth 2013/09/28 - Memories from Childhood: Broken Sword Remastered (iOS and Android) 2013/09/27 - Raising Money and Buying a Business: Two Unrelated Articles to Read 2013/09/26 - Create an Amazing Team Meetup at TechHub Bucharest 2013/09/25 - 3 VC Blogs I Read and You Should Too 2013/09/24 - Best Tip I Have For Mindmaps 2013/09/23 - Gaming Industry: Some Numbers (and GTA5’s $1 Billion) 2013/09/22 - Sunday Video: Oatmeal’s Matt Inman at SXSW 2013 2013/09/21 - Saturday Game: A Dark Room 2013/09/20 - Startup Weekend Timisoara and a Grumpy Old Man 2013/09/19 - Romanian Game Developers Association Launch 2013/09/18 - Tools I Use: Evernote, the Braindump App 2013/09/17 - First Day of School and Entrepreneurship 2013/09/16 - My 30 Days Challenges 2013/09/15 - Sunday Video: Phil Libin, Evernote 2013/09/14 - Saturday Game: Last of Us 2013/09/13 - Blogging as a Lean Startup 2013/09/12 - Good Design, Invisible Design 2013/09/11 - Business, Poker and +EV Choices 2013/09/10 - One Month of Writing 2013/09/09 - Founder Profile: Mihai Micle, Freshome 2013/09/08 - Sunday Video: Real Gamers About Candy Crush Saga 2013/09/07 - Saturday Game: Braid 2013/09/06 - Creating Killer Games – TechHub Event 2013/09/05 - Questions about Gaming 2013/09/04 - Work Hard, Play Hard, Get a Massage 2013/09/03 - Bucharest Gaming Meetup at TechHub 2013/09/02 - Basic Advice is the Best Advice 2013/09/01 - Sunday Video: Brad Feld Talking to Mark Suster 2013/08/31 - Saturday Game: Jelly Splash on iOS 2013/08/30 - Jobs The Movie 2013/08/29 - Startups Don’t Work with Other Startups 2013/08/28 - Learn English! 2013/08/27 - MavenHut’s First Step, A Click and A Form: A Case Study on Starting Your Startup with Less than $200 2013/08/26 - Know Your Numbers 2013/08/25 - Sunday Video: Elon Musk at PandoDaily Fireside Chat 2013/08/24 - Saturday Game: iPad and Football Equals SCORE! 2013/08/23 - Interesting Business TV Series 2013/08/22 - The Power of Your Network (Or Get a Little Help From Your Friends) 2013/08/21 - Get a Good Night Sleep 2013/08/20 - It’s About What You Believe 2013/08/19 - Just Enjoy Good News 2013/08/18 - Sunday Video: Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School [2 videos] 2013/08/17 - A Personal History of Games 2013/08/16 - Be Investable 2013/08/15 - You Don’t Pitch Just to Investors 2013/08/14 - Founder profile: Matei Pavel 2013/08/13 - Tools I use: IFTTT (If This Then That) 2013/08/12 - Ten Minutes Before Work, Every Day 2013/08/11 - Sunday Video: Fred Wilson, Pandodaily Fireside Chat 2013/08/10 - My “Me” Moments 2013/08/09 - Always be Pitching, right? 2013/08/08 - Lifestyle Business: A Real Option 2013/08/07 - Sheer Panic: Way Too Familiar for a Startup Founder 2013/06/14 - MavenHut in the Romanian Press 2013/06/01 - [ToRead] [Tools I Use] Use Evernote WebClipper with Chrome/Safari on iOS – BobbyVoicu.com :: 2013/05/01 - Unseen Perks of Being in a Startup: A King, A Flight CEO and a Comedian 2013/04/07 - Are you Brazilian? 2013/03/03 - My comfort zone is being out of my comfort zone 2012/05/29 - Computers = Trucks 2012/05/20 - Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised « Rand’s Blog 2012/05/18 - Guiness Pint 2012/05/18 - Max Payne 2012/05/15 - How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet 2012/05/13 - Seinfeld at the O2 Arena in Dublin 2012/05/12 - Seagull in Dublin 2012/05/09 - Tom and Jerry playing Solitaire Arena 2012/05/03 - Reid Hoffman And Peter Thiel In Conversation: Finding The Best Candidates For The Job – Forbes 2012/04/30 - Dublin Double Decker 2012/04/30 - When I get a bill from our lawyer, I’m like 2012/04/27 - Obama Drives Sphero 2012/04/26 - #Conspiracy: Romania, a surprise 2012/04/25 - Business of Convincing 2012/04/24 - Uncharted Games Made into Movies by a Fan 2012/04/23 - The Problem with Startup Advice 2012/04/23 - Google Doodle ZX Spectrum 2012/04/22 - Soshable’s Tagline 2012/04/21 - Amsterdam 2012/04/20 - New Mercedes Benz SL 2012/04/20 - Would you attend a conference featuring your network? 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