http://gtziralis.com personal webpage, blog and everything in between Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:53:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm providing here the slides of the presentation I gave a few hours ago at Open Coffee Athens XXIII, introducing the Open Fund. Open Fund presentation at Open Coffee<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/xo2Hok2EkPo" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/xo2Hok2EkPo/ http://gtziralis.com/introducing-the-open-fund/ Tumblr is uber-sexy and it had served me pretty well so far. But my homepage was way more than obsolete, and I am getting used to the capacity and flexibility of the WordPress platform (administering 4 WP blogs, if I remember well). Add these to the greek easter "holidays", and ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/AYR8bzNNSvg" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/AYR8bzNNSvg/ http://gtziralis.com/switched-to-wordpress/ As you grow up, work deteriorates in mails & meetings. This older tweet of mine tends to be an accurate description of my daily schedule lately…<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/ElKlMXsbsJ4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/ElKlMXsbsJ4/ http://gtziralis.com/as-you-grow-up-work-deteriorates-in-mails-amp-meetings/ Every new day brings a new opportunity and today I had the fortune to enjoy a unique experience; the one of receiving a cease and desist letter. The email regarded the “use of XXX company’s logo and trade name in my websites http://datamine.it & http://gtziralis.com/post/59121553/introducing-datamine-it” and I cannot put it ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/Y7oIrUt0yKI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/Y7oIrUt0yKI/ http://gtziralis.com/cease-and-desist-or-start-to-exist/ A paper I co-authored is finally published (in early view, .pdf) in the journal of Managerial and Decision Economics. Along with Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, Athanassios Rentizelas and my professor Ilias Tatsiopoulos, we proposed an holistic approach to investment assessment, a process of value that may be highlighted under the current economic ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/k9PgWHB4mhE" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/k9PgWHB4mhE/ http://gtziralis.com/an-holistic-approach-to-investment-assessment/ The last day of the year is a good chance to review what you did and what you didn’t, helping you shape out tangible plans for the year to come. I’ll try to do so in the lines to follow, based on the sparse 35 posts I happened to post ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/34SMKCxg8m8" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/34SMKCxg8m8/ http://gtziralis.com/my-humble-activity-report-for-2008/ About a month ago, I receive an email from Business Week, stating that I was one of the about 40 nominees for the Europe’s Best Young Entrepreneur 2008 contest. That was a really pleasant surprise, asking me to reply with more information on my business, next to confirming that I ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/6yRFKVaCz0c" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/6yRFKVaCz0c/ http://gtziralis.com/europes-best-young-entrepreneur-by-business-week-close-enough-or-not/ And we're TechCrunched!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/YnnpKEEEc9A" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/YnnpKEEEc9A/ http://gtziralis.com/and-were-techcrunched/ Launching askmarkets servicesgo create your marketplace now<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/vdAPVplrX5k" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/vdAPVplrX5k/ http://gtziralis.com/launching-askmarkets-services/ I’m too exhausted to write about anything but my excitement on participating at Startup Weekend Athens, as @andrewhyde said “the biggest SUW ever organized in Europe”. We set up a fantastic team by @kcorax, @dimitristi, @netwire, @ageor and @thimios and turned a rough idea (“friendfeed counter anyone?”) conceived about an ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~4/z1ZSAXjRDbc" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeorgeTziralisThoughtLog/~3/z1ZSAXjRDbc/ http://gtziralis.com/introducing-howsocialru-a-project-of-startup-weekend-athens/