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19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by waterlesscloud »

citricsquid wrote: post #18
peteforde wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It suggests a lot about print journalism when an article in Forbes clearly hasn't received even basic proofreading, much less proper editorial vetting. It's a cool story but my experience reading it was diminished by the grade school sentence structure and bizarre grammar and punctuation errors. Stray commas in Forbes! Seriously now.

This is not a Forbes article, it's from their knock-off "contributors" platform.

I think that effectively the contributors platform is Forbes now.

Unfortunately that doesn't pull the contributors up to the magazine's level as much as it pulls the magazine down to the contributors level.

Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by rdavl »

hajrice wrote: post #17
rdavl wrote: post #16

I'm just eager to see how long will it take him to fail in Bosnia (not because he's not capable but the Bosnian legislature is shit for anyone not doing illegal work, same goes for Serbia, Croatia and maybe even Kosovo.)

Thanks for the comment, it's very helpful for anyone looking to do business in Bosnia. Doing business in Bosnia might not be as good as you mentioned. However, the company is based in US, and I'm also a US citizen.

Yes that probably helps, since our countries suck to do any real business. (and don't make me quote, this is a known fact here).

I do hope you do very well, I just can't seem to get over the fact you had to go back to Balkans, sucks for you and your business but I do wish you all the best with your enterprise.

But don't take my comment to negatively either, if nothing food is great and people are full of humor! At least something to make you feel better ;)

Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by auctiontheory »

stevoski wrote: post #6

His name is Emil Hajric. A few years back, when Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" discussion forum was at its peak, he used whois records to find the phone numbers of some of the most frequent contributors and to call us personally. I found this rather creepy.

"Creepy"? How can it be "creepy" to make a business-related call to people whose names were publicized in a business context?

Creepy is showing up unannounced and unintroduced at the front door of an actor or actress you have a crush on. I understand that you may not like to be cold called, but it is not creepy - it's the way much of business is done.

Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by pavel_lishin »

citricsquid wrote: post #18
peteforde wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It suggests a lot about print journalism when an article in Forbes clearly hasn't received even basic proofreading, much less proper editorial vetting. It's a cool story but my experience reading it was diminished by the grade school sentence structure and bizarre grammar and punctuation errors. Stray commas in Forbes! Seriously now.

This is not a Forbes article, it's from their knock-off "contributors" platform.

Which also suggests a lot about modern journalism, print or otherwise.

Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by stevoski »

auctiontheory wrote: post #23
stevoski wrote: post #6

His name is Emil Hajric. A few years back, when Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" discussion forum was at its peak, he used whois records to find the phone numbers of some of the most frequent contributors and to call us personally. I found this rather creepy.

"Creepy"? How can it be "creepy" to make a business-related call to people whose names were publicized in a business context? Creepy is showing up unannounced and unintroduced at the front door of an actor or actress you have a crush on. I understand that you may not like to be cold called, but it is not creepy - it's the way much of business is done.

I could be easily pm'ed via the forum. That would be a professional way to call me.

I neglected to mention that the phone call came late in the evening, and on a weekend I think.

Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by mladenkovacevic »

stevoski wrote: post #6

His name is Emil Hajric. A few years back, when Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" discussion forum was at its peak, he used whois records to find the phone numbers of some of the most frequent contributors and to call us personally. I found this rather creepy.

Creepy or driven? Either way it's probably better than that email correspondence between a Gizmodo writer and that Nick D'Aloisio kid.

Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by lgray »

rayiner wrote: post #11

Very interesting and cool story. But that article was dreadfully written. Just because you're writing about a teenager doesn't mean you have to write like a teenager.

Agreed. There's a picture of him, and it says it's of him at demo day, but the article doesn't mention anything about Y Combinator. Very confusing.

Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by shadowrunner »

rayiner wrote: post #11

Very interesting and cool story. But that article was dreadfully written. Just because you're writing about a teenager doesn't mean you have to write like a teenager.

Come on, it wasn't that bad. If anything, the writing was heartfelt. I rather liked it.

I'm not defending Forbes though. Like, eww.

Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by hajrice »

mladenkovacevic wrote: post #26
stevoski wrote: post #6

His name is Emil Hajric. A few years back, when Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" discussion forum was at its peak, he used whois records to find the phone numbers of some of the most frequent contributors and to call us personally. I found this rather creepy.

Creepy or driven? Either way it's probably better than that email correspondence between a Gizmodo writer and that Nick D'Aloisio kid.

Thanks for the comment, Mladen! I hope you found the article somewhat interesting...

Re: 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

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Post by run4yourlives »

stevoski wrote: post #6

His name is Emil Hajric. A few years back, when Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" discussion forum was at its peak, he used whois records to find the phone numbers of some of the most frequent contributors and to call us personally. I found this rather creepy.

Heh, I've got him on linked in... always wondered who he was.
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