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Tineri Antreprenori este un proiect realizat de JCI Romania, al carei membru sunt din 2007. Proiectul a fost pornit anul trecut de Tudor Maxim, de la Elevate. Sincer sa fiu, eu nu prea am crezut in proiect (motive personale), dar Tudor a reusit sa faca ceva foarte bun si cred ca toti cei care au fost implicati au avut o experienta foarte misto, care merita incercata.

Tineriantreprenori.ro, primul program de mentorat pentru viitori antreprenori

Junior Chamber International Bucuresti, filiala locala a celei mai importante organizatii mondiale de tineri antreprenori si tineri manageri (www.jci.cc), pregsteste în luna mai 2009, cea de-a doua editie a programului de mentorat pentru viitori antreprenori.

Proiectul se adreseaza tinerilor, absolventi de liceu sau de facultate, cu vârste între 18 si 35 de ani, ce au în plan înfiintarea unei firme în maximum 6 luni de la participarea la program sau care au înfiintat o firma cu maximum 6 luni de activitate pâna la data începerii programului.

Fiecare participant va avea un mentor personal cu care va petrece patru saptamâni la biroul acestuia din urma. Mentorii sunt tineri antreprenori care au înfiintat în ultimii ani start-upuri de succes în diverse domenii. Lista completa a acestora poate fi gasita la: www.tineriantreprenori.ro/mentori

Cititi tot comunicatul aici si mergeti sa va inscrieti.

Edit: Trainingurile s-au amanat pentru 3-4-5 iunie!

Multi dintre cei care citesc de ceva timp aici (sau au citit, cand inca exista, bobbyvoicu.com) stiu ca eu fac parte dintr-o organizatie de tineri antreprenori numita JCI. Puteti citi ce am scris despre JCI, World Congress din Antalya de anul trecut samd aici.

La fel, multi dintre cei care citesc aceste randuri ma intreaba in ultimele zile: “ce fel de firma sa imi fac? care e cea mai buna solutie daca vreau sa imi pornesc un business pe bune?” (asa e, Tibi?). Acum puteti avea raspunsuri de la oameni mult mai bine informati decat mine, din toate domeniile care necesita atentia atunci cand iti pornesti un business.

JCI organizeaza in aceasta perioada o serie de cursuri (si un concurs de idei de afaceri – planuri de afaceri) sub umbrela concursului Best Business Plan 2008 (download prezentare aici), un concurs al carui mare premiu este prezenta la World Congress 2008, in India, in noiembrie (unde merg si eu :D ).

Sesiunile de training sunt dupa cum urmeaza:

27 Mai : Branding & Etica Corporatista; Marketing
28 Mai : Project Management & Fluxul Operational; Finante
29 Mai : Vanzari; Strategie; E-business

Sesiunile de training vor incepe la ora 15.00 si se vor termina la ora 21.00 in fiecare zi.

Trainerii vor fi specialisti din cadrul JCI, printre care Radu Limpede, Loredana Manolache, Vladimir Oane. Voi fi si eu acolo :)

E gratuit, asa ca va astept in numar mare (desi nu vor fi mai mult de 30 de oameni). Bineinteles, in masura in care chiar vreti sa porniti un business, pentru ca nu merita sa pierdeti 6 ore pe zi sa cascati gura aiurea :P

Exista un pret (chiar am uitat, imi cer scuze, eram prins de val), tocmai pentru a tria acei oameni care chiar sunt interesati sa porneasca ceva. Si, mai mult, cei care fac plan de afaceri chiar au reducere (deci sunt platiti pentru asa ceva :D ).

Si nu uitati, iesiti din zona de confort. Mergeti acolo sa intrebati, nu numai sa ascultati. Inscrieri se fac prin email la adresa bbp2006@jci.ro .

I have taken a loooong long time to put these online, but it makes sense, since this is the most crowded period in online business. I really worked up to 16-18 hours a day in the last 2 weeks.

So, enjoy some of the pictures we took there, because it’s worth it. Three of us (me, Tudor and Gabi) had the chance to see Turkey by car, too, and you can see some pictures of our road trip, also.

I’ve had a great time there and I am preparing for the EC in Turku, next year, as for the New Delhi WC in November 2008.

More pics HERE.

I always wanted to write something like that :) No, it’s not war, of course, it’s just our friend from JCI Portugal, Filipe Carrera, who is in Lithuania with a training, training supported by… Portuguese Air Force.

More details on JCI Portugal Blog.

Before reading the bad things about the JCI World Congress in Antalya, read the good things. They are a lot more important and more influential in my final decision.

Now, the bad:

1. The weather

Someone said, jokingly, that he should ask for a refund, since the package received said something like “sunny weather”. Unfortunately, we only had sun for 3 days and I only got to swim in the sea just in one of these days (when the water was still warm – for my standards, anyway. Some friends of mine still thought it was cold). The other days it was freakin’ cold.

More, we had a lot of rain and, in the last 2 days, it was quite windy and stormy.

Well, this wasn’t so bad, after all, come to think of it, since we were forced to stay inside and, thus, get to know each other more (who knows, maybe I wouldn’t have bumped in the right person(s) if it wasn’t for the bad weather).

2. The trainings (the canceled ones)
[Read more…] about Things I didn’t like at the JCI World Congress in Antalya

I have been quite late with this, but bear with me, we all have things to do, gossips to entertain with our friends, clients to meet at the end of the office hours, fast rides through the city to get somewhere to get 10 more minutes to talk. So, this is it:

Things I liked at the JCI World Congress.

1. The people.

I met so many like-minded people it would have took me years to find the same number of people one by one. The people I’ve met were fun, wanting to have a better life, wanting to be better (in business, in sports, in life) and wanting to meet different people and culture. It also made me a lot more eager to leave in my trip around the World.

2. The location (Kremlin and Topkapi Hotels).

First I hated the place. We had so much to walk between the trainings, the hotel, the football field… But then I started to enjoy it and ended in loving it. I felt like being in a village where everybody knows everybody. We would meet in the lobby over a cup on internet (or Turkish tea :D ), we would meet on the football field while cheering for our favorites, we would meet at trainings and, of course, we always managed to meet in between all these spots. More, you had the pool there, the sea, everything you wanted. I actually didn’t get out of the complex for the 6 days the congress lasted.

3. The Turks.

I have to make a separate chapter for them, since they were the hosts. I have a more personal reason to like them, but I will try not to let my personal feelings to interfere with it (you will see that when you will read the not so good things about the Congress). Going back to the Turks: they really made us feel welcome (at least I felt welcome) and they went out of their way to make us feel good (even if they didn’t manage to please everybody – I will get back to that). Still, they were always smiling, always telling us everything we wanted to know (and things we didn’t want to: how many of the JCI WC participants knew that you could eat a great soup at 1-2 am in the restaurant of the Kremlin Hotel? We didn’t, but find out from them).

Previously, I thought a lot of bad things about Turkish people. A little history here: Romania was under Turkish control for about 500-600 years, starting with 1300s till the 1880s. All we heard when we were little were how courageous the Romanians fought against the big armies of the Otoman Empire. So, no matter how open minded you are, things like this will stay with you for a long time. As a consequence, imagine my surprise when I have found myself actually liking them and enjoying their company.

There are a lot of things I think could have been better, but those, another time :) Subscribe to the blog to find out.

I am so tired :) My feet hurt, I can barely walk, I am sleep deprived, but I am good :D

I have succesfully gone through my first JCI World Congress full day here, in Antalya. I have attended, of course, the First Timers Briefing, where I had the good fortune of being picked – by lottery – to “shadow” one of the JCI Vice Presidents: Mounir Baatour. I will have to wake up at 7am in the morning (now that is the most difficult part of day) and take breakfast, then walk around not letting him go out of my sight. I read a little about his activity in JCI and I am sure I will have a ton of things to find out about the organization.

Next, after the First Timers Briefing, we went and play some football, in preparation for tomorrow’s football match against Germany. We lost the game thanks to a dreadful mistake on my part (I am the goalkeeper), but hopefully I will not make the same mistake tomorrow, in the official game.

Next, Business Networking Event. I have attended one in Romania, with Romanian entrepreneurs, and I kinda knew what to expect from it. Anyway, a lot of people are starting to get interesting in blogging (business blogging, of course): they ask a lot of questions when they hear what I do for a living and they seem genuinely interested. One important things in blogging is that it doesn’t have a targeted domain: any area of expertise can use it, starting from lawyers to bankers, from service providers to goods manufacturers.

By this time of the day (5pm) I was already starting to feel the lack of sleep and the effort on the football field. Nevertheless, I convinced some of my collegues to go to cheer for the Turkish football team, on their match against Syria. We were hoping to get them to cheer for us tomorrow, since we are not a big delegation and Germany is a HUGE one. That and, of course, they have some nice girls in the delegation and organization comitee :D

Turkey lost their match, unfortunately.

Finally, at the end of the day, TOYP (The Outstanding Young Persons of the World – look for the link and description in the left side column, because I cannot give you a direct link to the program – this is not good for both usability and Search Engines indexing, for my SEO readers :D ).

Next, I got to sleep an hour before going to the German Night Party. I overestimated my stamin, though, and after one hour I headed to my room. I have to sleep if I am be in good shape throught the second day.

I made a lot of pictures, but I still cannot use FTP to put the images on my server. I will put them on picasa tomorrow, so stay tuned :)

P.S.: It’s still raining and no, I didn’t swim in the Mediteranean Sea yet :-s

I am starting my around the world adventure with a little preview: I am leaving for Turkey (Antalya) for the next 9 days. I will be on the road with some friends for 3 days and 6 days I will be here. Nice hotel, huh? :D

I will attend the JCI World Congress there. I have no idea what it’s all about (or, I have a way to small of an idea), since I have been a JCI member for only a short time, but it seems I will meet a lot of people from all over the World. I will for sure play some football (soccer for the US readers outhere :D ), I will attend some trainings and workshops and, overall, I will try to have a good time. Actually, I had some shitty days lately, so I will probably make the most of it.

Expect some pictures but, as people in JCI say, I won’t have too much time to do anything else. I will try to blog more than I did in the last 2 months (I have been way to busy with sites like AutoUnleashed and some Romanian based projects).

Post din campania Microsoft impotriva pirateriei software

Acum vreo doi – trei ani, la un Blogoree Workshops discutam cu Bogdan Manolea despre pirateria software. Si el ne spunea ca in DEX piraterie inseamna ca ataci o nava in apele internationale. Sau ceva de genul. Oricum, in mod cert nu avea nici o legatura cu download-ul de pe DC si torente, cu instalarea jocurilor cu crack samd.

Bineinteles, ca oricare dintre noi, cei care am inceput sa folosim PC-ul in anii 90, HC-uri in anii 80 samd, a lua un joc de la un prieten si a-l pune pe calculatorul nostru nu era mare chestie. Dimpotriva, mi se parea normal sa jucam cat mai multi, sa avem ce povesti. Ah, da, era problema cu crack-ul, cu faptul ca trebuie sa folosesti un emulator de CD, ca altfel nu iti mergeau multe samd. Dar, nah, era doar din cauza ca nu eram noi, in Romania, indeajuns de avansati tehnologic, nu din cauza ca faceam ceva gresit. Sau cel putin asa ne placea sa gandim.

Ulterior, cand am mai crescut, la sfarsitul anilor ’90, am inceput sa inteleg ce si cum cu “pirateria”. Dar nu pot spune ca m-a afectat foarte tare. Da, stiam ca nu e etic, moral samd, dar nu prea imi pasa. Eu voiam sa am Windows 98, ca 95 era deja slab rau, voiam sa am ultima versiune de office, ca nu prea mergeau documentele din alea mai noi in alea mai vechi (“backwards compatibility” nu prea exista). Ma costa o licenta cat toti banii mei pe o luna? Sa traiasca, eu abia platisem calculatorul si dadeam o gramada de bani pe internet cu 4k/s.

Am inceput sa iau in serios pirateria software abia prin anii 2005-2006, cand am inceput sa inteleg ce pot pierde din cauza unui soft piratat: date de card, pentru ca incepusem sa folosesc cardul la cumparaturi pe net. Evident, luam servere si domenii, ca altceva nu prea puteai. Dar abia in 2007, un prieten din JCI Elvetia, care lucra la o companie de securitate, mi-a aratat bucata cu bucata ce se intampla. Chiar si cand nu se intampla nimic.

Cred ca una dintre greselile mari de comunicare in campaniile anti-piraterie este “poti lua virusi”. Sincer sa fiu, eu am BitDefender pe calculator si nu am avut astfel de probleme pana acum. Dar un soft care iti poate lua datele de contact nu este in mod necesar in virus. Si, daca ii mai si dai posibilitatea sa se conecteze la net, exista o mare posibilitate sa ti-o iei in freza urat.

Mai mult, nu stiu cati dintre voi v-ati pierdut munca de zile intregi, sau saptamani intregi, datorita unei probleme de genul asta (virus, troian) etc. Eu am fost ferit de asa ceva (poate si pentru ca imi fac backup-uri destul de des), dar stiu oameni care si-au blestemat zilele cand nu si-au mai putut recupera munca si au pierdut saptamani intregi refacand ceva.

Da, stiu, multi vor spune: bineinteles, acum iti permiti, normal ca ai sa spui ca trebuie sa iti cumperi Windows. Poate e si asta. Dar stiu sigur ca atunci cand fetele de la Monden.info ma sunau sa imi spuna ca inca o revista le-a luat o poza (ca era pe net) si au pus-o in revista, sau cand vad o gramada de agregatoare ca iau continutul meu si umplu netul cu el, sau cand bucati din textele unor prieteni apar ca texte proprii ale unor oarecare… atunci mi-as dori sa nu existe piraterie. Apoi mi-as dori sa dea iTunes acces la seriale si in Romania, ca nu am o problema sa platesc 1-2$ pe episod, ca sa imi rezolv si eu sevrajul… samd.

OK, dupa cum spuneam la inceput, discutam aici de o campanie Microsoft antipiraterie. Eu nu pot spune cu mana pe inima ca sunt cel mai curat, ca nu aveam mp3-uri luate de pe net pe iPhone-ul furat acum cateva zile, ca nu ma uit la seriale de pe torenti sau de pe diferite site-uri samd. Dar va pot spune ca am 4 chestii cu licenta pe orice calculator: Windows 7, Office, BitDefender si Dreamweaver. Asta pentru ca sunt uneltele folosite zi de zi. In rest, folosesc foarte multe unelte free sau shareware.

Oricum, avem parte si de un concurs care va poate aduce licente de Windows 7 (ca tot vorbeam de legalitate). Mecanismul e urmatorul:

1. Mergeti sa dati like paginii de Facebook a campaniei anti-piraterie, aflat aici. Apoi, optional, puteti sa va uitati si la clipul asta, cu reclama campaniei, care e mistocut, desi, din motive pe care nu le pot explica, mi se pare putin cam creepy.
2. Inapoi la mine pe blog, scrieti in comentariile acestui post, pana pe 5 decembrie un moment in care ati luat atitudine fata de ceva gresit (de exemplu, cum m-am dus eu in mijlocul unei petreceri in care erau oameni de la Click si le-am transmis… binete, pentru ca tocmai luasera poza de pe monden.info si le transmiteau salutari in sictir fetelor). Ar fi bine sa fie vorba de ceva legat de internet, de calculatoare, dar acceptam orice fel de atitudine asumata in momente de nedreptate :)
3. Eu aleg cele mai interesante povesti si dau o licenta Windows 7.
4. Voi mergeti acasa, stergeti Windows-ul piratat si puneti Windows 7.

Atat. Apropo, stie careva cand reincepe Entourage? >:)

1. Tineri antreprenori (organizat de JCI Bucuresti) se relanseaza. Anul trecut a iesit ceva foarte misto, anul asta sunt sigur ca va iesi si mai bine. Conferinta de lansare e pe 20 mai, la Bucharest Hubb. Be there!

Cine ar trebui sa vina? Toti cei care au business de maxim 6 luni sau vor sa isi deschida in urmatoarele 6 luni. Mai multe detalii aici.

2. Eu si cu Vlad (varu’) vom fi la EatSleepWeb maine, de la ora 14:00, unde vom discuta despre RevvNation, crearea de jocuri online samd. Accentul va fi pus pe mecanica jocului, pe deciziile luate in privinta partii nevazute a jocului, de aceea va vorbi mai mult Vlad, eu sunt adus acolo doar sa dau bine in poza. Si oricum plec repede, ca sa ma duc la evenimentul de mai jos :D

Unde: EC105, Facultatea de Automatica si Calculatoare Bucuresti, UPB
Cand: Joi, 13 Mai 2010, ora 14:00

Mai multe detalii aici

3. Ultimul, nu cel din urma, PR&AD Fair. Unde voi vorbi despre “Social networking = job” impreuna cu Justin Kadima de la Republika Interactive si cu Bogdan Olteanu de la Millenium Communications.

Unde: Facultatea de Drept, blvd. M. Kogalniceanu, in sala Aula Magna
Cand: 13 mai, ora 15:30