Timișoara and how BBB could be the best

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One of the biggest IT centers in Romania is Timișoara, home of a great development industry and a growing entrepreneurship community. Radu Ticiu, director of the Timisoara Software Business Incubator, founder of the TiMoDev Group and involved in many other great initiatives, shares a few thoughts on Timișoara’s strategic geographic placement and tells the story of an interesting conference he attended in Budapest. Here it goes:

The spring of startups in Cluj

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There’s a lot going on in the entrepreneurial tech scene all around Eastern Europe. Today, we give you an overview of what the beginning of the year has brought to one of Romania’s biggest tech cities. Read on for an inside view of the most important events in Cluj, by Oana Calugar, one of the organizers of Startup Weekend Cluj, a great startups enthusiast and a great friend of How to Web:

How to make your way through a crowded market – with Florin Cornianu, co-founder of 123ContactForm

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123ContactForm is a company based in Timisoara, Romania, offering a platform for easily creating web forms. We’ve used 123ContactForm for our feedback forms at the 2010 and 2011 How to Web conferences and we were thrilled by the product’s usability.

Developed by Florin Cornianu and Tudor Bastea, 123contactform isn’t exactly swimming in clear waters. With competitors like Google Forms or SurveyMonkey, it’s not easy to develop a new product and gain your share of the market.

Two days to the OpenAgile Iași Conference

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On the 31st of March, the fourth edition of the OpenAgile Romania conference takes place in Iași. The event brings in attention Agile and Lean solutions for qualitative software development and business excellence, with the participation of international speakers, leaders in IT software and organizing methods, developers, testers and passionate managers.

The third edition of the DevWorld conference – Bucharest, March 22nd & 23rd

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At the end of March, Bucharest will be hosting the DevWorld conference, reuniting more than 300 developers, entrepreneurs, specialists and young development enthusiasts from SouthEastern Europe. The event will be addressing web programming languages for desktop, frameworks/CMS and mobile platforms. If this sounds appealing to you, prepare to be at the Ramada Hotel & Suites Bucharest North on the 22nd and 23rd!