Emi Gal

Ever since I saw Gary Vaynerchuk‘s keynote at SXSW yesterday morning, something he said really stuck into my head: “In the past couple of years, I’ve asked about a hundred 80-90 years old what they would do different in life if they’d have a chance to do it again. Most of them said they’d spend [...]

I’ve been selling stuff for as long as I can remember. Started off with business cards when I was 10, went on to sell websites when I was 15, services when I was 18 and now so on. A couple of years ago I got a contract with a very, very big and demanding customer [...]

Until very recently I had, like most of you, about 150 feeds in Google Reader. I zapped through them throughout the day, which gave me a (fake) sense of being up-to-date with everything. Then, a couple of weeks ago, I decided to delete 90% of my feeds, and only keep those of friends & people [...]

I’m not sure I want to live 100 years, but I sure want to be healthy in my sixties. I know, I’m crazy to be thinking about that when I’m still in my early twenties, but hey – everyone has obsessions, and this is one of mine. I’ve been a vegetarian for almost a year [...]

I’m on an flight from Bucharest to London while writing this blog post, and I’m simply amazed on how productive I’ve been. In just a little bit over 3 hours, I managed to go through a few dozen emails, I cleaned up a folder that’s been in the back of my brain for the past [...]

I don’t follow a lot of people on Twitter. That’s because I don’t really like to follow the information flow on Twitter, I just have a look at my @replies from time to time. Nevertheless, I believe Twitter is a great tool for staying up-to-date with what my contacts are saying, but I want to [...]

People usually tend to turn the recruiting process into an exhaustive game where at the end you know everything about the potential employee and his mother. And I know that because I’ve done it hundreds if not thousands of times in the past. But after close to 5 years of entrepreneurship, I’ve learned that you [...]

I strongly believe that fun can change people’s behavior. The guys at Volkswagen apparently think the same, so they’ve put together The Theory Awards, a competition for those of you who want to change the world for the better through fun stuff. Here’s a glimpse of what they’re trying to achieve: For more videos, check [...]

One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made as an entrepreneur was not ask for feedback from the very beginning. And that mistake turned to cost me a little fortune. A couple of years ago, I started one of Romania’s first online TV channels: BrainTV – TV for smart people. I made two fundamental mistakes with [...]

For the past few months, most of the meetings we’ve held at Brainient have been standing meetings. That sounds strange and uncomfortable, I know, but I’ve seen a boost in focus and productivity since we started doing them. Even better, whenever I need to work on something that needs concentration and focus, I go on [...]