February 2012
2 posts
ACE - Sinatra for Node →
AWESOME.
The Joy of Sinatra
Sunday morning I woke up with a weird API idea, and decided to spend the morning building it.
I unconsciously headed to http://www.sinatrarb.com and 20 minutes later I had a complete API returning awesome JSON and performing a few operations in the backend.
It’s just amazing what you can achieve with Sinatra and the power of Rubygems:
The joy is in the simplicity, control, flexibility and...
January 2012
3 posts
1 tag
December 2011
1 post
October 2011
9 posts
If you can't remember why onions are in there,... →
Remove the inessential from your thinking framework.
Someone sent me a free copy of “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. Don’t really know who. But thanks.
A sneak peek to Iubenda's completely new design... →
Union Square Ventures is Hiring →
USV is hiring an analyst. Apply if you want to get in the best VC fund in New York.
Billing with Stripe - RailsCasts →
Ryan Bates explains how to integrate Stripe in your webapp. There was no need as it’s incredibly simple, but take a look for yourself and checkout how amazing Stripe is.
Thanks Steve. 1955 – Forever. →
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they…
I wonder when people will have the guts to admit that what we call “democracy” has failed as a political and social system.
In Brazil, Towns Cash In With Their Own Currencies... →
Get ready for this all around the world.
September 2011
9 posts
Future of US Dollar: How to Prepare for When Money... →
“Obama talking about economics is like the blind leading the doubly dismembered.”
“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the...”
– Christopher Columbus
Laura Trice: Dr. Ron Paul's 11-Point Plan That... →
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and...”
– Henry Ford
Find the problem. →
August 2011
7 posts
1 tag
#foodstartups
Today everything was very calm here at 500startups. Companies are hard at work on their pitches (they have to be ready by 12pm tomorrow) and everyone was immersed in doing what they couldn’t do in the last crazy days.
Myself, I’ve been working hard on something super-secret I might be showing you at the end of these two weeks. Stay tuned.
But today another big thing was going on,...
Second day: DemoDays Dry-Run!
Today I got the chance to sit in on the Dry-Run of the demo days! Dry Run means that there’s no alcohol involved in the pitching process. It really changes a lot the situation. This session was reserved for 500startups mentors and is considered by everyone the semi-final “test”.
Entrepreneurs have been here till very late yesterday to polish their pitches and a lot of them have...
First day as Dave McClure's shadow
I’ll be reporting about my 2 weeks shadowing Dave McClure here. Hope you can all get at least half as much as I’m getting out of it.
This post was written on Monday (so tomorrow = Tuesday)
7am - Wake up, shower, breakfast with my lovely Fiance, put bike in the car.
8 am - Drive to Menlo Park, say bye to my Fiance who’s going to play tennis at Menlo High School. Get bike out...
Facebook Launches Standalone iPhone/Android... →
This company is perfect.
Free Product Marketing Tip
If you’re announcing a new feature for your product on a blog or press release, include a fucking link to it. WTF.
Mashery Open Sources their I/O API Documentation!
This is just awesome.
https://github.com/mashery/iodocs
June 2011
2 posts
“If I was Facebook, I’d buy Groupon today just to have them not mess up the...”
2 tags
My first angel investment - the Creative Commons...
I’m really excited as today I can announce my first (mini) angel investment. It’s on Iubenda, a company that will solve the privacy policy problem for website owners. The CEO is 21 and rocks really hard.
The investment is part of a $100.000 round led by Digital Investment SCA SICAR (advised by dPixel, with Gianluca Dettori), Andrea Di Camillo (Vitaminic, Banzai) and Marco Magnocavallo...
May 2011
3 posts
Italy slumbers: United in apathy | The Economist →
sad but true.
Turkish Peak Games grabs $5m from Earlybird →
Peak Games, the flourishing emerging markets social gaming company, today announced a $5 million Series-A investment to foster continued growth in some of the…
3 tags
Shadow Dave McClure
So, I recently applied for the awesome “Shadow Dave McClure” position over at InternMatch, one of Dave’s 500startups portfolio companies, thinking that there would be some rolling positions during the summer.
Little did I know that we applied in more than 300, for only one position!
Luckily, I was selected together with other 14 extremely cool guys as a semi-finalist. I now had...
March 2011
3 posts
Is curation the next big thing? →
This is a guest post by Scoop.it CEO Guillaume Decugis, explaining why he believes the curated web should be the future of the Social Web.
Social Media lets everyone…
David Orban appointed as dotSUB chief executive →
Michael L. Smolens, Founder and Chairman of dotSUB, announced today the appointment of David Orban as Chief Executive Officer of dotSUB, the leading technology provider…
February 2011
7 posts
Rainmaking via developer communities →
Great post with an awesome mention for HackItaly.
Flash: Future Simple raises $1 million →
Future Simple, a startup from Krakow, Poland and offices in Chicago raised a $1m round.
The company was founded in 2009 as a spin-off of Applicake, and builds simple…
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
– Paul Valéry
Nauta Capital invests €1m in Yuilop →
Yuilop, a spanish startup, just raised €1m from Nauta Capital.
Nauta Capital, is a very active firm founded in 2004 with offices in Barcelona, Spain and Boston, USA, is a…
A SuperAngel’s Investment Guide →
Awesome blog post by Fabrice Grinda
Smarthphone, Galaxy Tab, Viaggi, Servizi... →
HackItaly, tutto pronto! →
January 2011
9 posts
I'm hooked on Omnigraffle
http://graffletopia.com/
A W E S O M E
“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
– Frank A. Clark
An interview with Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of... →
So it turns out that the mind behind that awesome piece of open source called Redis, an open source, advanced key-value store, is italian, and he’s developing it from a small city in…
An interview with Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of... →