Making Things Happen

With some days of delay I’m summarizing up what happened during the second day of Eye for Travel’s Travel Distribution Summit Europe 2009. What caught my attention was indeed the “Get funded” contest and panel, who saw four startups (TravelWhere, Zoombu, Joobili and Tourdust) pitching their business to the audience and four angel investors: Dick [...]

I found this very neat post about management by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, the popular office humor comic. Scott funded and manages his restaurants and shared his thoughts about management. Here’s the list: Have fun. Loosen up. Try something new. Often. Keep whatever works. No penalty for a new idea failing. Trying is the [...]

At this year’s very dusk it’s time to draw some conclusions about this 2008 and cast a few wishes for the incoming 2009. This year has been an extraordinary one. We started two companies,  a small consultancy firm (GingerCraft) and a startup operating in the retail world (Shreppy). This was a year of hard work, [...]

I’ve never been to as many conferences and events as I’ve been in this extraordinary 2008!

“The pursuit of Happyness” is a great movie, it’s all about the endless struggle to reach happiness and achieve goals the we, as human beings, face everyday. It’s extremely interesting to notice what the United States Declaration of Independence says about happiness: “[...]all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with [...]

The Untouchables is one of my favorite movies. It’s a movie about courage, it’s a reminder of the value of friendship, it’s an advice on how important a team is: it’s a movie about crossing borders. I recently watched this movie for the xx time and I realized how many similarities there are between the [...]