"Before product/market fit, you must be a saint to raise money. After product/market fit, many many sins are forgiven."
-- via Venturehacks
Your daily dose of inspiring quotes for entrepreneurs, mixed with the occasional photo from my iPhone.
I'm the Founder / CEO of reMail, a mobile email startup.
Previously, I was the VP Engineering at Xobni (makers of a rockin' Outlook plugin), a Software Engineer at Google (makers of awesomeness in general), and a grad student at ETH Zurich (makers of smart people since 1855, such as Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Urs Hoelzle, and Niklaus Wirth).
This Posterous is for scribbling down inspiring and uplifting quotes that I come across. Positive vibes and good karma. Being an entrepreneur is hard and sometimes discouraging - come here for your daily dose of positivity.
(Yes, I'm going to try to post every single day!).
You can find my "real" blog at http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog - that's where I post original content, although less frequently.
My Twitter is at http://www.twitter.com/gabor.
Oh also, mail me your quote suggestions - my email address is on my homepage.
IKEA instructions
I wish everything hard in life came with IKEA instruction pictographs like this one.
In other news, my sleeping-on-a-mattress-on-the-floor days are over, I now have a real bed, assembled and comfy. Good stuff.
Posted by Gabor Cselle
Comments [0]
Wall Street Smarts
“The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.” He took a sip of his martini, and stared straight at the row of bottles behind the bar, as if the conversation was now over.
-- Read this New York Times Op-ed by Calvin Trillin
Posted by Gabor Cselle
Comments [0]
Water show
We are in Vegas for Halloween + to celebrate some yet to be announced awesomeness.
Loving the water show from Jasmine at the Bellagio ...
Gabor
Posted from Paradise, NV
Posted by Gabor Cselle
Comments [0]
"Making money takes practice, just like playing the piano takes practice."
"Most of the people I know who are money-making-machines got started really early. Lemonade stands, car washes, lawn mowing, baseball card trading. I think the reason they are money-making-machines today is because they started early. They learned the skills of negotiation, pricing, selling, and market-reading early. They have more practice selling than most people. That’s one of the reasons they’re better at it than most people."
- via 37signals
Posted by Gabor Cselle
Comments [0]
"reMail stand heads and shoulders above [iPhone Mail Search]"
Read this review of reMail on VentureBeat. We just released a major update today! :-)
Posted by Gabor Cselle
Comments [0]
"It is not a sofa"
"It is not a sofa. Nor is it a sofa group. And it is certainly not a neatly arranged row of armchairs. What it is is a matchless seating environment that calls to mind the great masterpieces of landscape gardening. Or a perfectly fashioned town en miniature. In his inner eye, Hugo de Ruiter envisaged an unending play of possible additions and variations when he put his concept for the DS-165 down on paper. The result is a new design for contemporary society in its ever-growing quest for the structures of security in the midst of the breakneck change of information technology."
Really? It looks like a sofa to me. I'm amazed about the airy prose in commercials for lifestyle goods such as cars or high-end furniture. Who writes these things?
I guess for $20000 I would want it to be a new design for society. A sofa would cost much less.
(I found this gem at upscale furniture store Limn in SOMA. Pic #3 shows you the actual sofa, read more here.)
Posted from San Francisco, CA
Posted by Gabor Cselle
Comments [0]
Comments [0]