NovaTech and Istanbul

Due to the fact that we got the first prize at ICUBE with the TWIP project, part of our reward was a trip to Istanbul, to another business plan competition – NovaTech. Of course, this was the next level – if ICUBE was organized at a national level, NovaTech was regional: Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Israel, [...]

The ICUBE summer

Fast forwarding >>
I got a team – Claudiu and Sofia. And the brief presentation for the TWIP project got qualified for the finals. There where 5 finalist projects, including our own. We had from July to mid-August to do research, improve on our concept and write a damn good business plan.
At the beginning, I didn’t [...]

Business Plan – The First Draft

I’m having trouble remembering the exact date. But I do think it was at the end of May. Or the beginning of June. The first ICUBE meeting.
I arrived early. Daniel was already there. Daniel participated in ICUBE in 2006. He had a project on how to make irrigations more environmentaly friendly. A very interesting and [...]

The Glimpse …

[ by Bogdan ]
Fast forward a semester in college. Polytechnic University of Bucharest. Computer Science Department. It sounds fancier than it is, trust me.
On the second semester, however, I had the this really interesting maths course. The guy teaching it (Octavian Stănaşilă, to be precise) is in his sixties, but I’m sure it was the [...]

… before the spark

[ by Bogdan ]
When I first thought about this concept I had absolutely no idea about business. In the fall before my first year of college (2007, that being), I went to this IT conference. It was mainly about open source technologies and how they can change education. It’s a nice idea and everything, but [...]