Thanks for all the commitments everybody. I really struggled to pick people here. My original intention was to choose between 1 and 5 people, but I couldn't choose so few. Here's the list. If you're on it, e-mail me at [email protected]:
Well, the thing is that sales are low for me. Here in Romania we have such an young entrepreneurial culture that we just start learning how to build and sale our products. I'm so keen to learn more and more. I've been working hard in the past year to build this product, but yet I need to learn so much more about promoting and selling it.
If more people find out about my product, than more will take advantage of my "free for non-profit" policy.
Plus, I'm planning to share all my knowledge with my fellows Romanian starting entrepreneurs. Through blogging, video interviews, podcasts etc. Romania has a potential to go beyond the outsourcing destination label, and I'll be happy to bring my contribution.
rubeng - this has inspired me to do something. E-mail me at [email protected] and I'll either refund your ticket so you can come free, or you can nominate somebody to get a free ticket.
Red Gate is funding this. No local government / anybody else involved in any way. It's pretty expensive, but we figure it'll pay itself back. Somehow.
For example, we've already got a handful of startups at Red Gate (go-test.it, broadersheet.com and mixcloud) and there are all sorts of unintented, positive benefits. A couple of them have done some contracting work for use, they've introduced us to friends / relatives who've ended up working for us, and so on. And that's just the short-term stuff. Who knows what will happen long term.
