I recently took the initiative to launch the Work-in-Greece program as well as a pertinent group on meetup. This initiative comes as a natural next step from the success of the Scale-up Greece meetup. The mission of the latter is to promote scale-up entrepreneurship by demonstrating successful scale-ups out of…

In several European countries (and not only in European ones) there’s a heated debate on the so-called ‘brain-drain’ phenomenon. It has been observed that during the years of the financial crisis hundreds of thousands of highly-skilled young professionals (medical doctors, engineers, computer scientists and others) left their county in the…

The sudden (at least, perceived as such) passing of Queen Elizabeth II signals the end of an era. The World’s history has now turned a new page. Born in 1926, the Queen played a role in WW2, actually serving in the British armed forces (in a supportive role, apparently). Her…

This Monday September 5th marks the 22nd anniversary since the creation of our first company at the Science and Technology Park of Crete in Heraklion. What now seems simple and business as usual, was quite unusual back then, especially when it comes to a startup founded by undergrad students. We…

In our small country history plays a vital role in our lives. Throughout the years we spend in school, we keep learning about our glorious ancestors and the incredible things they managed to do. …

I’m going to go straight to the point: We live in the 21st century. In this stage of humanity’s evolution, it’s perfectly fine to have sex with someone just for the fan of it, just for the sake of pleasure. By the way, this statement has been standing true throughout…

May 19th marks the commemoration of the Pontic genocide, one of the darkest pages in recent European history. The Burning of Smyrna in 1922 signaled the — temporary, hopefully — termination of more than 30 centuries of Greek population presence in Asia Minor (with the exception of Constantinople, where the…

​Eleusis, probably the antiquity’s most sacred place in Greece, has been a cradle of culture and arts throughout the centuries. Since the middle of the 20th century, however, Eleusis and the surrounding area, most notably my hometown of Aspropyrgos, have turned to a — notoriously unplanned — industrial area with…

One of my colleagues recently shared the photo below from a hiring post by AirBnB, which I trust is legit: My colleague was asking the rest of the team about their pertinent thoughts. Instead of a lengthy answer, I replied by suggest a book: “Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian…