Ideas

99% of ideas remain just ideas.

Running a Successful Company

From my point of view, every company falls into 3 categories.

1. The ones who make products available to the masses, they make it fast, they cut down costs as much as they can. The creators-of-websites-from-a-template type of companies. Now, I believe that these companies are doomed from the beginning.

2. Most of the companies making a difference are found in this category. The companies who create quality products and services. They put quality before quantity or even price. This could be a win - win situation for everyone.

3. Finally, I realized that there’s a third category that just began to be adopted by companies. Companies who offer 100% authentic, fully customizable, personalized services and products. These companies not just put quality before everything else, but also satisfy each individual client differently. They create products that best suits the needs of a particular person / company, not just a particular niche or group. I think that eventually every company will adopt this philosophy, this will be the future.

If you want success for your company, you have to look at other, successful companies and learn from them, although this is not a guarantee to your own success.

First, original work start from the core of the company who’s making it. Above all, a company cannot create original products if the company itself is not original, the developers working in the company are not original, not honest, not believing in the philosophy of the company and do not want to achieve the same goal, which is offering authentic, quality products.

Second, the company must reflect the same philosophy, the same message to their clients and those people need to realize that the company is what it says it is.

“The past limits the future”. I read this quote somewhere and realized just how true it is. The past limits what you can do in the future, because if you done shit works then don’t expect future prospects to believe that you will deliver a quality product or service for them.

Helping Server-Side Magazine?

As you may know I started a new website called Server-Side Magazine.

Currently I’m very busy and I have very little time to work on the website, to write articles for the site, etc.

If anybody wants to be an editor, article writer then please let me know. I don’t want to abandon this project, because I see a great potential in it, but this is the sad truth.

The site currently has around 155 RSS subscribers and 20 e-mail subscribers. Since November it got a fairly decent traffic: 8000 visits and 13000 page views

I want to achieve such figures on a monthly basis. So if you want, help me out.

Interface Design(ing)

I always loved interface design. I remember back in the old days when I worked with BASIC and Visual Basic 6 then with old school ASP I always wanted to create controls and interfaces.

Then I started to learn about HTML, CSS and Javascript and it always came back to me: How can I customize existing HTML fields?

Now, browsers evolved, Javascript starting to be a real scripting language, it’s not just form controls anymore. It got way beyond that.

Just look at Grooveshark, Flickr or Last.fm

Photo Walk in Targu Mures

Now this may not concern most users reading this post, but only who actually live in my hometown Targu Mures, Romania.

“Photowalking is the act of walking with a camera for the main purpose of taking pictures of things that the photographer may find interesting.” (Source: Wikipedia.org)

I’d like to organize such an event in Targu Mures for hobby/professional photographers. So if you have a camera, free time and you like to share your knowledge with others or perhaps learn from each other please sign up on this form.

I don’t know the exact date of the event yet, but it will be on a weekend (Saturday, Sunday).

For any questions or suggestions please contact me here. Let me know what do you think.

Update: The event will be organized on January 31, Saturday from 15:30. Here’s the map where we will gather (Str Cetatii):

Links you might be interested in

• photowalklist.com
• photowalking.org
• photoshopuser.com/photowalk

Bye

This is the end!

Update:

I didn’t referred to the end of this blog. It’s a personal issue, and sadly it’s over. I’m going through very though times right now. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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Time flies away, only the ideas and memories remain.

Sad, but this is the reality.