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Hi! I'm André Ribeirinho, an entrepreneur from Lisbon, Portugal. I've co-founded Adegga.com, an online wine community and also the AVIN (an ISBN for Wine). My Startup
Adegga is an online wine community where people can discover new wines through the opinions of other people.
Monthly Archives: December 2007
No smoking, finalmente
Amanhã vamos todos deixar de fumar. Involuntariamente. A lei diz: A nova Lei visa proteger os cidadãos da exposição involuntária ao fumo do tabaco, nos locais públicos, espaços de trabalho e lazer. Eu digo: finalmente.
Slice of the day: Invest in you
Redefine success to be any good learning experience Invest in yourself and your future. A startup is like school, but you actually learn something. All said by Paul Buchheit (Google’s Gmail creator) on Startup School and his blog.
The Happiness Factory
When you combine advertising and animation the results are normally amazing. If you love animation you’ll love Happiness Factory. The campaign was made by Psyop for Wieden+Kennedy and Coca-Cola and lots of information is available online. It all started as … Continue reading
Slice of the day: Don’t just give up on life.
If your job isn’t working for you, if it isn’t making you happy and energized, then why are you still there? I can’t guarantee that you’ll find something better, but perhaps you should at least try something new. Don’t just … Continue reading
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Call Girl – Um bom filme português
Fui à ante-estreia do Call Girl e gostei. Uma história de corrupção política com os ingredientes básicos: (muito) sexo e dinheiro. Nicolau Breyner, Soraia Chaves, Ivo Canelas e Joaquim de Almeida estão muito bem. Aqui fica o trailer:
psd2html – you design, they code xhtml
In a consulting project I was doing last month I had the site’s design but had to cut it into xhtml to able to use it. While I was researching for an easier way to do the slicing I found … Continue reading
Slice of the day: Knol
Google using its page rank system to its own benefit. Think of it this way: Google’s mysterious Page Rank system is what Internet Explorer was to Microsoft in the late 1990s: a way to control the destiny of others. By … Continue reading
Slice of the Day: Curiosity about the world
Having that kind of curiosity about the world helps anyone succeed, no matter what kind of work they decide to pursue. Bill Gates on The skills you need to succeed.
Adegga on BusinessWeek
The article – Building a Facebook for Wine – talks about the entrepreneurs that are trying to create viable wine businesses through social networks. Adegga is profiled: Three Portuguese entrepreneurs launched a beta version of Adegga in October. Billed as … Continue reading
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Vote for Adegga
TechCrunch, GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb and VentureBeat are organizing a competition and award ceremony – The Crunchies 2007 – to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. We are going for “Best bootstrapped start-up” nomination. … Continue reading
