Mihaly Borbely

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bio	website	brickflow.com
	location	Budapest, Hungary
	age	31
visits	member for	1 year, 8 months
	seen	Jan 11 at 3:59
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I've spent the last couple of years researching the nature of creativity, the ways technology can help us in leveraging our creative capacities, and educating creativity.

I'm working on a web application that enables content creators and students to playfully combine multimedia on a shared virtual whiteboard.

Do you remember playing with Lego? Working with multimedia should be just as easy and playful. Because creativity works best in an open, playful, and collaborative environment.

	685 reputation	bio	website	brickflow.com	visits	member for	1 year, 8 months
112 badges		location	Budapest, Hungary		seen	Jan 11 at 3:59

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Nov 14	answered	Why is it necessary for online marketing to be mobile-friendly?
Nov 14	comment	Built a company? When did you realize you needed a COO (or ops exec)? Seems too few experienced users here. Anyway, just to add a point, I was surprised at the way you put the question. I certainly don't have enough experience to tell, but I thought in the case you described the right way to go would rather be to hire a CEO. I wouldn't dare to keep leading the company if I was clueless about the main challenges we face. I think this is a typical point where otherwise successful startups fail, just for the ego of the CEO who is good at building, but sucks at scaling.
Nov 14	comment	Do I need a CMS or should I build from scratch? so I wouldn't worry too much about what CMS/framework I choose. Just keep it simple, build it fast, and don't worry about the future (yet). And then cross your fingers and hope that people will want it. If they do, it won't matter how badly built it is, you'll succeed. And you'll rebuild the whole thing. Otherwise, at least you didn't waste too much time optimizing for stuff that never happened.
Nov 14	comment	Do I need a CMS or should I build from scratch? I agree completely with the answer below. The only thing I'd add is that if you succeed - meaning you find product/market fit, which is a lot harder than building the product - then you will have to refactor the whole thing at one point anyway.
Sep 11	awarded	Yearling
Aug 24	answered	To the Coders…what would you consider acceptable terms to join a new start up?
Aug 17	comment	Whose property is the product? So you joined an existing startup, you are being paid (what difference does it make if the money comes from elsewhere?), and still you think the right way to go is to blackmail them for founder-amount equity, otherwise you'll pull your code out of the system? Or did I miss something?
Aug 16	comment	How the startups manage to afford cost of web servers and other hardware Also, I don't even get it why would anybody buy a physical server these days. Cloud solutions are so much easier to maintain. A startup has to be creative with resources, not just financially, but with time as well. You don't want to worry about server maintenance. It would just get in the way of the important stuff you should care about.
Aug 16	answered	How the startups manage to afford cost of web servers and other hardware
Aug 16	answered	Determining “Critical Mass” for a Web Application
Aug 16	accepted	Accelerator application, second interview round - what to expect?
Aug 16	comment	Accelerator application, second interview round - what to expect? Thank you very much for your answer, you confirmed what I thought it would be like. And congrats for your success! Good luck!
Aug 16	answered	Advice on starting a company where founders are in different countries?
Aug 16	asked	Accelerator application, second interview round - what to expect?
Aug 16	comment	What if twitter name is already taken actually, twitter allows you to change your account name, so it's worth a try getting the name, the process is really straight-forward.
Aug 14	answered	What legal docs and stuff do I need to lead an angel round?
Aug 14	answered	Getting Funds for a Startup
Aug 12	comment	Freelance Designers “Quality”- Portfolio vs. Results I had similar experience. This is why outsourcing the design is hard, and recently more and more people start companies with a designer co-founder. But I guess outsourcing can still work, you just have to find the right people to work with, and that's never easy. (captain obvious comment of the day..:)
Apr 21	answered	Is developing a backend for a mobile application costly?
Apr 21	comment	Pitch for funding while the company is in the process of being registered Why wouldn't you? Google did the exact same thing back then on their first round. :)