Octablog

Octabox has a new logo and a launch date

Eran Galperin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:04:54 +0000

It has been a long time since our last post here, and we’ve been busy as all hell (I especially moved on to writing mostly on my own personal blog). But we have been making steady progress towards a release (still self-funded by the way). We have recently contracted a logo project at crowdSPRING, a community [...]

techfounder is online

Eran Galperin — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:25:28 +0000

I’ve finally wrapped up my personal blog and it went online today. There I intend to write much more technical articles about some hard-core web-development spiced up with some opinions on the web and personal interests. You are welcomed to visit - techfounder.

Is Vista Salvageable?

Eran Galperin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:54:40 +0000

I just finished reading a post that popped up in my feed about another Vista user ‘upgrading’ back to Windows XP. This is nothing new, I have read such depressing stories before (and people are getting more creative). I got my first taste of Vista just about a month ago, and I can confirm its [...]

Lets Schedule A Meeting And Talk About It

Eran Galperin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:50:52 +0000

To survive in the startup game you need partners and investors. You’ll come across many people who say they can help but somehow you (I?) always feel like they’re lacking in urgency. They’ll always say “Lets schedule a meeting and talk about it”, and that meeting will always be a several weeks from now. And then [...]

Open Source Saved My Life

Eran Galperin — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:16:59 +0000

Or at least my sanity. Friday afternoon, after several hours of intense development, my HP lappy decided to take a bow and go to sleep indefinitely. After an hour of pleading it to power back on, I gave up and moved to outfit my desktop as a replacement development platform. I downloaded and installed the latest [...]

When starting up, avoid these

Eran Galperin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:55:23 +0000

I’ve being doing the ’startup thing’ for close to a year and a half. That might not sound like much, but I feel that I’ve learned a ton and gained much experience. Following a recent startup-oriented weekend adventure I took a part in and some introspection, I give you my version of the old ‘top [...]

Octabox gets a facelift

Eran Galperin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:55:51 +0000

The new layout went online today. This might sound ridiculus, but the previous design was supposed to be a temporary placeholder for a couple of weeks (and stayed for over 5 months…). Either way, we are very happy with the new concept and hope you will like it too. I’ll just leave a teaser and [...]

Startup Weekend Israel, Recap

Eran Galperin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:34:41 +0000

Yesterday was the last day of Startup Weekend Israel, an event in which a large groups of would be entrepreneurs try to take an idea from concept to product over a single weekend. As expected, the last day was the most chaotic. Business dev guys were still coming with new features and far-reaching ideas in the [...]

Startup Weekend Israel, day #2

Eran Galperin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:08:28 +0000

So another day of intensive startup experience. Yesterday we chose our idea - to make time-bartering service. A person can chose to give some of his time for another with his expertise, and then later receive a service from another member with the time credits he accumulated (By the way I voted for another idea [...]

Startup Weekend Israel and a Shameless Plug

Eran Galperin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:14:45 +0000

Today was the first day of Startup Weekend Israel which a very interesting to attend. For those who are not familiar with the concept, a quick recap: Startup Weekend is a gathering / conference for entrepreneurs from all walks of life (technological, business, marketing, etc..) for 3 days of concentrated brain-dump and hard core development [...]