Entrepreneurship
April 11, 2017
What’s it like to start a company?
"I remember the bad parts. If you asked me to start a company now I'd go on a corner and cry" thanks 4 keeping it real @bobbyvoicu @RebelBio pic.twitter.com/6rpzFZB3Nj — Emilia Díaz (@EmiliaDiazCL) April 7, 2017 Last week I’ve talked to the entrepreneurs from the 2017 cohort of RebelBio, in Cork, Ireland. I’m hopeful I’ll […]
April 9, 2017
RebelBio mentoring in Cork, Ireland
For the next 3-4 months I’ll mostly be in Cork, Ireland, where I’m mentoring the teams for RebelBio, a BioTech accelerator that SOSV has created here about 4 years ago. SOSV is, as some of you may know, the investor in MavenHut and our partner there since 2012. I will actually act as an “entrepreneur […]
March 18, 2017
Entrepreneurial Europe vs. Asia and US
Asia’s response to Uber’s global ambitions—unlike Europe’s—was primarily entrepreneurial. from The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World I think this is the difference between Europe and Asia (in this case) and USA: we, Europeans, put much more focus on help from legislation and institutions, […]
January 3, 2017
Best Startup/Business Books I’ve read in 2016
I’ve read several business books in 2016 and some of them were worth the time spent :)) Here are the two that I would read if I only had time for just two books. 1. The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are no Easy Answers It took me a little […]
September 28, 2016
Daily, 1 Minute Videos: Bobby’s Minute
I’ve been interested in video for the last several months, thinking about a video project about business. That project is still in the works, but in order for me to get more comfortable at speaking English on video, I’ve started a small video series. The temporary name of the series is Bobby’s Minute and it […]
September 16, 2016
Multiplier Skills and Specific Skills
“I will never be able to sell something. I am the artist, I create things, I don’t sell them to the buyers at a fair. Sales people should sell, not me!”. This is what my fiance was telling me the other day, when she came back from a fair where she sold some of the art she […]
August 31, 2016
Experimenting
I’ve always read a lot since I was about 5 and I learned how to read. The thing is, building MavenHut took a lot of time and I’ve stopped reading as much as I used to. So I decided recently to read more. Reading books gives me a lot of ideas. And the worst thing […]
January 2, 2016
On Quantity vs. Quality
“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day […]
September 9, 2015
Don’t Waste My Time!
Due to MavenHut’s success, there are people that think I know stuff and they want to meet me to talk about their business. And, time permitting, since I travel a lot these days, I actually love to meet the entrepreneurs. And why shouldn’t I? I love talking to smart people (who doesn’t?), I am interested […]