One day, my grandmother calls my father – ‘you must come quick to mow the lawn, the grass is 20 inches high, and my neighbors are laughing at me’. When he got there, the grass was barely 4 inches high, and no one was laughing. But that’s my grandmother’s way – she would also go […]
Entrepreneurship
My biggest challenge as an entrepreneur
The biggest challenge for me was to conquer my mind, so it’s not a business challenge but a psychological one. Overcoming poverty I was born and grew up in a poor family in a poor city in a poor country in Communist Eastern Europe. My parents have always had low-level jobs which subconsciously directed me […]
Top 3 requirements for building a website according to small business owners
If you’ve ever built a website for a client, you probably heard one of these 3 things before. You would think that business people should be more profit-oriented or more efficient. No, most are just kids who want to boast in front of their friends that they have a more beautiful site. And they want […]
My first day as a true entrepreneur
I started to work at an early age, I would not even have finished school if I did not work. From hard, manual labor, unloading trucks, counting merchandise, and constructions to working at a desk with computers. Eventually, I started my own company. But I didn’t quit my day job, so I still had a […]
Are you sabotaging your business?
I have a friend who has an online shop, and he regularly asks for advice that he never follows. A few days ago, he asked me to correct some settings on the configurable attributes of the products listed on the site, a site that runs on Magento, and I noticed that the meta keywords and […]
How WordPress changed my life
This article is a translated transcript of my presentation at WordCamp Romania 2014. You can always watch my “performance” on WordPress.tv if you understand Romanian. I started the adventure of online entrepreneurship in August 2007. I was working in IT at the time; I didn’t quit the job right away, I thought I’d grow my business […]
Why you should start a blog right now
A friend of mine recently started to build homemade audio speakers. He has been a long time audiophile, and passionate about this field. Many years ago, he and his brother have built a horn, and that horn, even though it was rudimentary built, sounded very good (well, in my humble non-audiophile opinion). That’s why I […]