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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: January 2009
DLD09 Overview
DLD (Digital, Life, Design) took place a couple of days ago (January 25-27, 2009) in Munich and most of sessions are online for everyone to see. Here’s a real good one on the future business models for journalism and new … Continue reading
Netflix CEO: Secrets of my success
Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings has done a short interview with Fortune talking about how he started the service and reached eight million customers. In the interview he adds a couple of useful tips: Target a specific niche: When … Continue reading
Frost / Nixon and fears of being an entrepreneur
I went to see Frost/Nixon (wikipedia) and loved it. It’s an incredibly great movie about a set of interviews but most importantly a great movie about entrepreneurship. Every entrepreneur should watch it and learn. At some point David Frost confesses: … Continue reading
Understanding women
Trying to understand google is like trying to understand women. While it may be fun to try, both are futile pursuits. Seen here while searching for answers on google behaviour.
Jeffrey from Threadless on success
There’s so much good advice in this post that I didn’t even know what to quote. Just stay true to your original plans; see them through; and understand that more-often-than-not, these new and exciting concepts are rarely vetted for use … Continue reading
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
O amor. As relações. Pessoas. Pessoas. Pessoas. Tudo muito bem condimentado no último filme de Woody Allen.
Boostrapping my flights to Switzerland
I’ll be travelling to Zurich and Geneva next month for LIFT. Travelling to the 2 cities in a couple of days can be quite expensive so I’ve spent some time on flight search tools and ended up saving 160€. Here’s … Continue reading
IKEA Oval Office
This IKEA campaign makes clever use of the political moment. If the Obamas were a normal family they would have visited IKEA after the inauguration to redecorated the oval office. Via CR Blog.
Obama’s HOPE Poster
Obama’s hope poster was designed by artist Shepard Fairey. This photo by Steve Rhodes.
Obama’s inauguration around the Web
On these kind of events the web always produces interesting links and points of view and on the same event. Here’s a couple of them: Inauguration Day, by the numbers: CNN served 18.8 million live video streams, 600,000 Facebook status … Continue reading
