Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2009
“The Festival is an apolitical no-man’s-land, a microcosm of what the world would be like if people could contact each other directly and speak the same language.” Jean Cocteau
The Festival de Cannes has celebrated the cinema for more than 60 years. Over the years, the French Association of the International Film Festival has been able [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2009
Joobili is a finalist (again). This time we’ll be pitching our business to a room full of travel industry execs and investors at the Travel Distribution Summit in London next week. Only four startups were chosen as finalist so it’s already a real honor for us to be invited to London. Our congrats also go out to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2009
Joobili got flooded with visitors, new members, and tweets yesterday thanks to this post on leading Social Media blog Mashable. A big welcome to all the new Joobiliers. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Thanks so much. I think the only gripe I heard from some people was they wanted content for US festivals and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2009
Tomorrow we are flying to London for the Travolution Summit. I’m looking forward to meeting some of the big players in European online travel. I’m NOT looking forward to the 6am flight. On Wednesday we are making the rounds to some potential investors and then back to Budapest on an evening flight. I’ll be Twittering [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2009
I just came across a really interesting article that seems to validate what Joobili has known all along: when you go is more important than where you go. Yesterday leaders from the EU member countries voted in favor of a rotating holiday schedule whereby each country will be assigned 4 weeks of travel and citizens will be banned from traveling outside [...]
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 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 [...]
