The view from the top of Marina Bay Sands, overlooking the marina bay skyline in Singapore
So I’m currently in Singapore, catching up with my entrepreneurial friend and fellow GEAP scholar from Deusto Bilbao, Meri Rosich and visiting her startup Quality Time Lab which connects families over distance.
If you have grandparents living away from your kids or if you are traveling a lot away from your kids, you should really check her apps out.
GEAP Alumni Representing!
So I’m currently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and I haven’t been here for more than hours before I see this guy in a Startup Weekend t-shirt sitting at the next table across from me. And of course I just have to go over there and ask him about it and introduce myself. Turns out it’s Ahmed Khanji, Startup Weekend Sudan organizer! Felt like we have known each other for years! It’s a small world and the Startup Weekend Mafia is everywhere! This is why I love volunteering for UP Global / Startup Weekend! <3
It’s Ahmed Khanji!
There is a discussion going on in Germany at the moment on startups vs the Samwer brothers’ incubator or company builder “Rocket Internet”.
And I have only two things to add to that.
Update: Not a fun business to be in so I scrapped it.
I’m currently at the arrrrrsome 4th European Pirate Summit in Cologne, and upon arriving there yesterday and within three hours, I had received three job requests from devs and entrepreneurs and one company told me they were searching for a talent to fill a new developer outreach position.
I keep getting these kinds of requests all the time. Not a week goes by where I don’t get at least three or four asks from either people or companies. Overall I’ve gotten so many requests that it got me thinking.
This post is from the present me in response to the recent automated message in a bottle from last year. Thank you for the heartwarming responses, and remember – that message was FROM LAST YEAR. This one is from the present.
Hello world,
I’m doing surprisingly well.
Today is July 2014, and I find myself at the end of my regular free open office hours at Startplatz in Cologne, reflecting on what happened in the year since I wrote a message to my future self from Silicon Valley.
Today, I should be happy. And grateful.
Yes. One year later and still here.