Archive for 2009
Systemic Patterns in Romania’s Evolution
A holistic perception of Romanian business and career issues “Recently discussing visible changes in Romania with a friend, he made the following comment concerning the country’s development in the course of the last twenty years. His observation was that during these two decades, there has been in fact very little evolution in most of the [...]
In: Business Development, Coaching, Leadership · Tagged with: Alain Cardon, business and career issues, Romania
Seth Godin: Understanding Business Development
Some things you should be thinking about when considering the topic of business development: Process first, ideas second Who decides? Courtship, negotiation and marriage Buyer and seller Enthusiasm is underrated Close the open door Call the lawyers later Cast a wider net Talk to the receptionist Hire better Structure deals with the expectation of success [...]
In: Business Development · Tagged with: Business Development, seth godin
Elect Romania’s President Online!
In: Others · Tagged with: Elect Online, Romania's President
Adobe Acquires Omniture
“On Sept. 15, 2009, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Omniture, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMTR) announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Adobe to acquire Omniture in a transaction valued at approximately $1.8 billion on a fully diluted equity-value basis. Under the terms of the agreement, Adobe will commence a tender offer to acquire [...]
In: Business Development · Tagged with: Adobe, Flash, google, Microsoft, Omniture, Silverlight
Offroad in the Danube Delta
Of course, I did not go into the Danube Delta for offroad, but it was a good side action. For the actual activities and pictures from last weekend, see here. Video done by Augustin, via Roxana.
In: Personal · Tagged with: Danube Delta, offroad
Sir John Whitmore – On the Crisis
Via Mihai Stanescu.
In: Business Development, Coaching, Leadership · Tagged with: crisis, John Whitmore
The Crisis Economy
In this year’s murky waters, it appears we’re all swiming the fast and threatening currents of the global economic crisis. All around us, various industries are suffering, some more than others, from coldness, dampness or simply lack of direction. Despite the dangers and mishaps of the global economic flow, some of the swimmers have managed [...]
In: Business Development · Tagged with: computer games, crisis, economy, gambling, motorcycles
Agnita Free Spirits Ride 2009
And there it was, Agnita Free Spirits Ride 2009, my first real offroad adventure: More pictures from Agnita Free Spirits Ride 2009 here (excelent event in all aspects: organization, people, location, everything). Update: I just finished uploading 65 little movies from Agnita Free Spirits Ride 2009 here.
In: Personal · Tagged with: Agnita, offroad
The Future Job: Statistician
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians. And I’m not kidding,” is what Val Harian, Chief Economist at Google, recently declared in a New York Times article. This is not the first time that Val Harian talks about this, as in another article from two months ago [...]
In: Others · Tagged with: analytics, datarati, future job, google, googlenomics, statistician, statistics
Content Drives More Web Traffic
UK web analytics company Hitwise recently analyzed the most significant online categories in UK (see graph below) and how their situation changed in the past three years in terms of traffic generated (visits) by each of these categories. Some of these categories have increased their traffic significantly, and as a consequence, the user time spent on [...]
In: Business Development, Online Marketing · Tagged with: BBC, Content vs. Transaction, hitwise, web traffic
