October 2011
2 posts
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“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs.
August 2011
2 posts
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June 2011
3 posts
“El mundo necesita gente
que deje de dormir
por cumplir sus sueños.
Gente que...”
– proverb.io
Startups and The power of Seclusion
When you put 3 developers, 1 designer and 2 founders under one roof for 10 days inside a beautiful house in a foreign city, things can go either really well or consistently wrong. In our case it works, remarkably well.
The magic of 24/7 interaction is that in the first couple of days personality kinks are ironed out and people start getting along, faster. Maybe it is simple human nature or a...
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Closed-door meetings and Startups.
Today, I’m thinking about closed-door meetings, geographically distributed teams and the barriers that each bring to a work environment.
The closeness of face-to-face work makes work relationships stronger, no doubt about it. However, office collaboration erodes as folks with decision-making power make decisions behind close doors. Though closed-door meetings are important (sometimes), they...
April 2011
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Starting a company from scratch and blogging all...
Having a new baby, a new office and a new round of funding all in the same month, tends to make things spin pretty fast. Thankfully I am not building a startup alone and I’ve learned to really appreciate the supportive nature of people, specially my friend and co-founder Santosh. Pete, I love you too :)
You’ve seen some pictures of the Daemonic Labs offices. You will start seeing a...
March 2011
2 posts
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January 2011
3 posts
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A Survey on Location Based Apps. Help us and win...
Calling location based services a hot new trend would be an understatement. People are moving towards mobile devices that have locations services embedded into them and developers are rushing to take advantage of these new ways to reach users.
What’s missing here is an understanding of what the users actually want. To be truthful we (the tech industry) lacks the understanding of what each...
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Tangelo Startup House 2011. Building Products and...
We’ve kicked off the year with Tangelo’s flagship event: The Tangelo Startup House or TSH. This year we are planning to do three startup houses during the year. Each Startup House will last between 7-10 days and will focus on particular ideas that need implementation.
During the first startup house, we worked on several things. Each idea that we worked on will be described briefly...
December 2010
4 posts
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“El que quiere interesar a los demas tiene que provocarlos.”
– Dali
November 2010
5 posts
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October 2010
14 posts
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“I am always willing to pay the piper when I have had a good dance; and every now...”
– Theodore Roosevelt
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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How Startups Fuck Up When Hiring
Will try to keep it short and sweet.
This is a list of a bunch of high level points on my views on hiring. Will not mention any names but the learnings are taken from real meetings and interactions with folks at startups and after seeing a few going through many cycles of hiring and continuing to make the same mistakes over and over, I wanted to share a few pointers.
Keep in mind that my views...
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Visiting #traweln
I’ve just had an epic afternoon (the other day). Epic in the sense that I did two awesome things happen today. One, playing carelessly with my kids at the park. Two, crashing #traweln. After playing at the park and feeding the kids I decided to attend #traweln though I wasn’t fully invited. The thing is I really tried to get properly invited but my continued attempts fell on deft ears...
Does light make you fat? →
theeconomist:
Ever fall asleep with a light on? A team of researchers examined how nocturnal light affects weight, body fat and glucose intolerance in male mice. They found that persistent exposure to even a little night-time light leads to increases in all three. Expect some very odd diet plans to follow.
Any excuse accepted for fatness, I guess.
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Those thirty-three men, have been reborn by their...
by esquire. No doubt they will suffer, some of them. They will have nightmares and mysterious aches. For some of them, anger and resentment will replace their joy. Some of them will have trouble adjusting to the light.
But the ones who are lucky enough to survive twice, they will become astronauts. They will become men who’ve walked on the moon. They will be men who know true deprivation,...
“Novelty names like these are the typographical equivalents of wearing a rotating...”
– Our language blog berates Cisco for taking silly punctuation in brand names a step too far with “ūmi telepresence” (via theeconomist)
Tell me what you're thinking.
I found this paragraph to be quite fitting of the questions social sites like twitter and Facebook ask of their users. Yet, we will continue to share our thoughts - though a carefully sanitized version of them.
Tell me what you’re thinking.
“It’s an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given...
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Antonio Altamirano: Silicon Valley cutting-edge... →
This week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Irene M. Audet from the wired Latinos blog .
Here’s an excerpt. You can read the full interview at their blog.
WL: What has been your greatest challenge in creating Tangelo?
AA: Balancing act between being and acting like an agency and a startup. On one hand you serve clients and this would be enough for paying the bills. On the other...
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“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
September 2010
10 posts
“great business people don’t operate on guarantees when they switch...”
– Dr. Phil.
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”
– Mark Twain
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Mar del Plata Valley, hoy: iPhone Apps,... →
Juan Cruz Ghigliani y Hernan Bruno de Tangelo (main sponsor del evento) nos van hablar acerca del desarrollo de aplicaciones para iPhone y los proyectos que están desarrollando junto a Tangelo para importantes empresas de tecnología de todo el mundo.
Daniel Dron de La Plata Valley, hará la presentación oficial de DESAFIO D, el Concurso Nacional de Aplicaciones Móviles y Redes Sociales que ya...
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Emprendedores, Emprendimientos y Amistad
Formas de amistad las hay. Formas de trabajo, muchas. Combinas las dos y tienes la fuente para un buen emprendimiento. La mas importante razón sobre cualquier otra para el exito de un emprendimiento es la calidad de relacion que entablas con tu socio o equipo fundador.
La idea que da raiz al emprendimiento es totalmente secundaria ya que probablemente el producto sea diferente a la idea...
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How Twitter Jump-Started The Entrepreneurial... →
Twitter’s massive growth is undeniable. This tremendous growth has sparked unintended but welcomed side-effects for technology entrepreneurs in Latin America and the U.S. hispanic business community. The business side-effects of Twitter adoption is what we are going to touch upon in this post.
MBAs are for wusses
theeconomist:
MBAs are for wusses: in Israel, army veterans are being snapped up by start-ups. Traditional armies drill unquestioning obedience into their grunts; apparently the Israel Defence Force encourages creativity.
My train of thought got hijacked →
I’ll comment on your post when after I’m done wasting my time on facebook….. :)
We lose a lot of our linear reasoning with stuff that distracts us every second.
Ooh there’s that browser tab I opened but didn’t read, oh no,.. got to go to NYtimes, got to check out Techmeme. Oh shucks, I need to buy that from Amazon, oh no lets see if it’s on ebay first. Hmm, I like this...
“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth...”
– Bob Marley
August 2010
26 posts
“Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to...”
– Isabel Allende