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Learning Patience
Entrepreneurship is all about time management. Many people say money is the scarcest resource… It’s actually not as scarce as time. It is not bad to have no money, if you have time to pay your bills, employees and suppliers.
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Getting an E2 Visa to work in the USA
I started the the application in June 2008, and I received my E2 visa today… it took roughly 5 months to get it! The E2 visa is the option I chose to work in the US as a foreigner and entrepreneur/investor.
First, I have to repeat that the ‘rules’ around this visa are all but precise. No [...]
Busy Week at Notifixious
Even though I was stuck in France way longer than expected, the nights (thx jetlag!) have been pretty productive and I have a great load of good news to share with you!
Visa : it should be fine… so hoepfully, I’ll be back in sunny California by the end of the week, with my precious E2 [...]
Patents : good news, bad news ?
I totally see the point here… but still, patents can also protect start-up sometimes, don’t you think? It’s probably one of the only things that a start-up can have to face the fierce competition from the big guys. What we need, rather, is probably shorter time to benefit from a patent. A start-up that can’t [...]
Authenticating Ejabberd against a Ruby On Rails database
Notifixious just switched to the EJabberd server for its XMPP capabilities. One of the key point in this migration was the ability to authenticate users with an external script. I won’t go into details here, but this a wonderful thing for Notifixious! Anyway, the ejabberd website gives a certain number of scripts to authenticate users [...]
Keep the risk-taking spirit
The financial world is collapsing and several start-up are already taking measures to cope with the crisis. I am taking a few days of, outside of California and it’s a great time to think a little bit about it. I brought with me some books and among them “Once you’re good, twice you’re lucky” by [...]
Prisoner’s dilemma
The current economic “situation” rings another bell : the prisoner’s dilemna. The principle is simple : 2 prisoners are in jail. If one of them testifies against the other, he is set out of jail free, while the other gets 10 years, if they both testify, they both get 5 years, but if none testifies, [...]
Déjà vu!
Come on, are you sure the current melt down of the markets doesn’t remind you of anything?
Reversing the flow
The internet is broken! The information is not flowing. Actually, when you want to receive an information, you have to go grab it. Wanna know when I publish something new on l’Ouvre-Boite? Best case : you have to start your RSS reader, worst case, you have to check here. Wanna know your bank account balance? [...]
