Mircea Paşoi: Archive

Jan 25th

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End of an era, beginning of a new journey! →

You’ve probably noticed we’ve been quiet lately. Well, we’re extremely excited to announce that Summify has been acquired by Twitter! I know, right? We can hardly believe it ourselves! Read More

Jan 19th

“education system is massively failing us: it’s not producing even remotely...”

– Joel on Software

Jan 13th

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Dec 25th

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“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30,... →

“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become…

Dec 15th

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Dec 9th

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Nov 13th

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Oct 6th

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“You’re not your Facebook status. You’re not how many friends you...”

– “You’re not your…

Sep 26th

Summify: Team Summify Expands →

summify: For some of us, nothing beats the atmosphere of energy and learning offered by an early stage start-up. With the recent launch of the iPhone app and many more releases on the way, it’s an exciting time at Summify, so exciting that we almost forgot to introduce ourselves! Although we’re…

Jul 30th

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Immigrant tech stars face hurdles in quest to... →

Jul 8th

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One on one talk with Mircea Pasoi from Summify |... →

Jun 20th

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Summify Goes Hollywood

summify: Pictures are great, but Videos are even better. Anytime we introduce new features to the Summify experience, expect to see a blockbuster demo posted in living color. Although we learn fast, it may take us some time to release them in 3D - bear with us ;) Our First Tutorial: Filters and the Dislike Button As always, keep letting us know how your Summifying is going. More updates on...

Jun 20th

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“Some of the richest people I know aren’t really entrepreneurs. They worked at HP...”

– Are You A Pirate?, via Novac

Jun 14th

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Roman la 23 de ani, antreprenor in Canada: Ce vad... →

Interview in Romanian with me

Jun 14th

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Jun 8th

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“If you’re going to work… work hard. That way, you’ll have...”

– Seth’s Blog: If you’re going to work…

Jun 4th

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Short logic: Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal →

shortlogic: Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account. At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to…

Jun 4th

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“No entrepreneur wants to start a business if he runs the risk of being expelled...”

– Attracting foreign entrepreneurs

May 26th

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Summify: Less Stories, More Funding! →

summify: The last few months at Summify have been really groundbreaking and we wanted to share some of the exciting updates with you! More Funding We have raised a seed round from a great group of investors and here is the full list is in no particular order: Accel Partners, represented by …

Mar 30th

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Summify in the Romanian Press

After our San Francisco November trip, we went back to Romania, where we were luck enough to be approached by the Romanian press and we got to to talk our story and about Summify! Here’s an article from Forbes Romania, where we talk about Summify, life in Vancouver and the differences between building a dot-com versus a dot-ro: Next, we got featured on Pro TV, with the headline...

Jan 17th

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Featured in Digerati.ro (Romanian) →

The Romanian version of usesthis.com

Dec 5th

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Aug 26th

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Summify: Hold on, Summify is back! →

A lot of people have been asking us what have we been up to here in Vancouver in the past couple of months. Well, we’ve been really busy building our new product - a Social News Reader - and we’re finally ready to share it with the world! As of today we’re starting to send out invites to people… Woohoo, the new Summify is here!

Aug 11th

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Vegetarian in Vancouver

Like I promised in my previous post, for the whole month of February I ate only vegetarian (meat-free) food every day. It was a very interesting 30 days trial for me, so I want to share my experience. Why veggie? I’ve wanted to try vegetarian food for quite some time, mainly out of curiosity. My girlfriend and a bunch of other people I know are vegetarian, so I always wondered what...

Apr 12th

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Summify in private beta! →

We have great news to share with you: Summify is now officially in private beta, starting today, 23rd March 2010! Woohoo! After weeks of hard work we finally have something that we can share with more people! It took us a full week of “intimate” beta to detect and squash all the major bugs… Great news, we finally launched our private beta! Please send us feedback!

Mar 24th

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A New Life

It has been 2 weeks since we arrived in Vancouver and I must say, these have been some really intense couple of weeks - in a good way! This comes after the very nerve-wrecking period before departing to Canada when there was so much stuff to do: Pass 4 exams in my Masters Degree in Distributed Systems at University of Bucharest Get a Canada visa, plane ticket, medical insurance, etc. Find a...

Feb 5th

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Feb 1st

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Watch

ReadFu on Money Channel recording - first 5 minutes (in Romanian)

Jan 13th

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So, what happened in 2009?

It seems that at the end of every year people sit down and think about what they’ve accomplished that year. All this fuss got me thinking about my own personal accomplishments in 2009, so I’m going to kick-start 2010 with a blog post on this topic: The Good Exactly one year ago I was working as a Software Engineer for uberVU. I was really enjoying the job, mainly because of the task -...

Jan 1st

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ReadFu, our Romanian startup FTW!

cristianstrat: Great news, everyone! The startup I’m working on with my friends has been selected for the Jan 2010 BootupLabs program, a startup incubator based in Vancouver, BC. This is exciting news! We’re looking forward to 8 months of hard work and mentorship from world class CEOs and tech leaders. Can’t wait to fire up some questions to Guy Kawasaki, Tim Bray, and all the others! You can...

Dec 19th

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“52.4% of Silicon Valley startups had one or more immigrants as a key founder.”

– Via BusinessWeek

Dec 6th

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Nov 26th

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Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it.
Me: Does your nephew have Microsoft Word?
Prospective client: Yes.
Me: Then have him write you a novel while he’s at it.

Nov 25th

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Nov 24th

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Nov 21st

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Nov 7th

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Nov 6th

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Fun Theory →

This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.

Nov 3rd

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