Having great people means nothing if you are not building a great culture that allows everyone to flourish in it. And we are doing our best to continue building such a culture based on the learnings and experiences of the team.
Read moreIn our recent trip to Greece we met Velocity.Partners. Velocity is a pre-seed and Seed Venture fund in Greece. We had a very friendly chat with Dimitris and George and touched on a lot of topics. One thing that was immediately obvious is that they want to be very...
Read moreWhen people ask me what it is that we are doing at Ideas2life I always say we are building a great team. Yes we have built AtYourService and Foody but the most important thing we are building is a team of great people, that is learning how to...
Read moreIt’s important to create a really good first day experience for the new members of the team. A well planned, productive first day is a sign of respect, sets expectations and provides a nice preview of the future. Note to self: This is one of the areas that we can...
Read moreYet we all spend 95% of our analytics time trying to go from simple to completely overcomplicated, without stopping to ask the question… Is it fucking worth it? This blog is about one of the dead simple models we use at foody, which is actually awesome. I...
Read moreIn my last blog I talked about how constant distraction is the new normal, examined different situations and explained how we have created a structure as a team to handle them. If you haven’t read it yet I suggest you do it as the following thoughts are based on it....
Read morePlease allow me to briefly mention the story of how I joined Ideas2life and found myself being tied, for the years to come, with the team. Some months ago I was in search of a new job for numerous reasons, one of them was the fact that it felt...
Read moreIt would be really horrible though if we added great people to the team, but never allowed them the time to go into the slow thinking – creative mode. That’s something that has been central to our team culture from day one, as we tried to build strong communication channels....
Read moreBeing a millennial in Cyprus today, you know that there are certain life and career paths you are expected to follow. These are usually “predetermined” for you in a way, not only by your parents but the island’s society in general. Usually this path consists of graduating from university...
Read moreOn the 3rd of April (2 weeks before Easter) we released a new page at foody that showed all the fasting dishes in one single page. This is a feature that was suggested to us many times since we first launched, and quite frankly we were very excited to...
Read moreAs you probably know this weekend we had a Startup Weekend in Nicosia and it was quite good. I personally got a lot of energy from the newcomers, sent a lot of hopefully helpful thoughts their way (ok I confused them) and had a chance to catch up with...
Read moreLast Friday I was fortunate enough to be one of the evaluators at the Impossible Pitch along with Peter, Maria and Tasos – an awesome group of people that I loved working with (that includes the other Maria who was in charge of everything) Our job was simple on paper....
Read moreI often speak to People who would sooner or later like to start a business of their own. I like that! :) One of the first things I often tell them is start by doing something small. I say that because doing is a completely different animal than thinking...
Read moreHey guys! In 6th of July our Team has won the Startup Live Cyprus; an awesome competition aiming to promote startups & entrepreneurship in Cyprus, with more than 35 startup teams participating from all over Cyprus. Our Team has won the competition with Offerra and we will have the opportunity to represent Cyprus in...
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