Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2009
Last week the TimesOnline wrote an article titled “Best Websites for Holiday Inspiration”. Sounded cool. The problem was none of the websites were really in the “Inspiration” category (at least in my opinion). I don’t mean that as a knock against these sites, actually I’m a fan of some of them, but there is a difference [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2009
I received a lot of positive feedback about my 5 minute presentation at Seedcamp last week. Some of it was the backhanded compliment variety that went something like this, “Really good presentation…but you’re American so it’s easy for you.” Nobody meant any offense with the comment, but it got me thinking. Does being an American [...]
Posted in Feedback, Joobili Buzz, Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2009
Wow…where to start. On Wednesday, Joobili was selected one of the winners of Seedcamp’s Warsaw competition. Each of the 20 finalists had 5 minutes to present their startup to a room full of investors and entrepreneurs. The rest of the day was filled with individual sessions where we received incredible feedback about Joobili from an [...]
Posted in Travel Trends on Mar 15th, 2009
I’m just catching up from a very busy week in Berlin where I attended the travel industry’s biggest trade show. My quick highlights were 1) meeting people in-person that I’ve met virtually through blogging and twitter 2) hearing a few interesting seminars on the future of online travel 3) introducing Joobili to loads of European [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2009
Joobili was selected as one of the 20 best start-ups in Central-Eastern Europe. We are the only travel company and the only Hungary-based start-up among the finalists. On March 18 we head to Warsaw for the finals.
The competition is organized by Seedcamp, a group comprised of VCs and entrepreneurs from some of Europe’s hottest companies. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2009
Joobili got some press yesterday on Travolution. I first told editor Kevin May about Joobili back in November when we were still in private beta. He was a cool guy and offered some good ideas regarding “perpetual beta”. I sent him some emails after that about Joobili’s progress but it was very silent on the other end. When [...]
Posted in Travel Trends on Mar 3rd, 2009
Over the weekend I attended the Central Europe Travel Show held right here in Budapest. It was quaint compared to WTM London and ITB Berlin, but still worth a visit. I gave the regional tourism offices a little intro to Joobili and met with some Hungarian event promoters who plan to upload their events. The [...]
