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Jul 14

Don’t be an idiot: Glimpses of classical Greek spirit on July 4th and July 14th

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. …

Democracy

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Jun 27

The convicted generation

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…

Abortion

3 min read


May 19

May 19th: Commemorating the Pontic genocide

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…

History

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May 14

Arts and culture as means to fight darkness

​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…

Eleusis

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Arts and culture as means to fight darkness
Arts and culture as means to fight darkness

May 1

May Day 2022: “Remote” is killing labor rights

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…

May Day 2022

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May Day 2022: “Remote” is killing labor rights
May Day 2022: “Remote” is killing labor rights

Apr 15

The debut of the Hellenic Angels!

I am really thrilled to share that yesterday, Thursday April 14th 2022, marks quite a historical day for the Hellenic Angels as we have completed our first financing, the one of Swaplanet.com I’d like to warmly thank All of the fellow angel investors who took part in this very interesting…

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Mar 18

March 18th, 2022: A day to remember

March 18th, 2022, is the official day of birth of the Movimento Insieme for the European Federal Union! We have completed its formalization as an Italian association. I’d like to thank each and everyone of the approximately 500 fellow European who have already been part of this endeavor. Movimento Insieme…

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Feb 25

The time has come for a European Army

The world is watching the developments in Ukraine. I don’t mean to make any geopolitical analysis in this short message, as there are numerous resources already available. …

Geopolitics

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Jan 11

Introducing the Elastic Company Builder

Almost twenty-two years ago, while being an undergrad student of Computer Science at the University of Crete (famously and rightfully known, back then, as the “Harvard of the Mediterranean”), I took the crazy decision to “start a company”, simply because it just was “the obvious thing to do”. Thankfully, I…

Venture Builder

7 min read


Dec 30, 2021

The Starttech Curriculum

Back in 2015 I started asking myself why is it that so many companies fail, even if they’re very well funded, equipped with the world’s brightest brains and addressing large and fast growing markets? In the quest to respond to this question, I got astonished to discover that in most…

Books

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