Now that’s something quite out of the ordinary. Romanian company Zitec has recently announced it’s investment in the American startup Zipongo. Zitec will be holding a minority stake and is in this together with investors Founder Collective, co-founders of Flickr, Dr. Neal Baer, producer of the TV Show ER and Peter Dolan, ex CEO of farmaceutical giant Brystol Myers Squibb.
Zitec is a Romanian company specialized in online products and applications development. They have a history of getting involved also as investors in projects they feel passionate about.
Bored of reading those too general business magazine articles? Looking for a more hands-on approach to entrepreneurship? Here’s a list of our favorite blogs in the tech-entrepreneur field.
We tried to keep it as short as possible, so you’ll probably notice some of your favorites missing. Comments are there for sharing impressions and extra info. So please, share and we’ll kindly ask the ones hungry for more to keep scrolling.
The European Pirate Summit has recently unveiled a more complete speakers list for the event which will take place in Cologne on September the 20th. We were pleased to see that Eastern-Europe is there through speakers like Alexandru Lapusan from Zitec and Cristian Pascu from Flairbuilder, and a dedicated panel. But wait, what?! Pirates?
What is a pirate and what is the Summit about?
In 2010, Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, published a blog post with the title “Are you a pirate?”. He was then defining a new type of pirates – the risk taking, risk loving entrepreneurs, who just wouldn’t be happy with a regular, maybe even extremely well payed job as someone else’s employee. In 2011 it seems that this comparison is catching on, and we see a team of people creating a whole event around it.
123contactform is a Romanian start-up which offers the possibility to create personalized online forms. The start-up has managed to attract angel-investor Adrian Gheara‘s attention after last year’s How to Web conference.
We thought we’d do a follow-up with them and see how things are going after almost a year since the pair up. So we had a chat with Florin Cornianu, one of the founders of 123contactform.
HTW: What makes 123contactform successful? How does it attract clients?
Florin Cornianu: It’s simple. That’s our philosophy. It doesn’t matter if you need a simple contact form or a complicated order form with payment integration that is linked to SalesForce.
You’re a start-up and you’re using Amazon Web Services? Here’s something that might be of interest to you!
Amazon has recently launched this year’s AWS Start-up Challenge. The 2011 competition expects participants from all around the word, granting a regional initial selection. Start-ups will be competing for a prize of $50k cash and $50k worth of AWS credits.
Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing platform that offers IT infrastructure services to businesses. AWS is a solution used worldwide by websites and client-based applications. All provided services are payed with a “pay for what you use” policy.
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Mission
 How to Web aims to support Eastern Europe’s grounbreaking tech experts into becoming web trendsetters, developing the next world-changing, innovative web products. |
How to Web Conference
 The How to Web Conference, organized once a year in Bucharest, Romania, reunites hundreds of entrepreneurs and tech professionals with great speakers and investors from Europe and beyond. |
How to Web Blog
 The How to Web Blog aims to become an important source of information for and about the Eastern European startup scene, covering news, offering useful pieces of info, tips and advises. |
Contact
 How to Web is a project by Wembrio. E-mail: news@wembrio.com. Address: Stelea Spatarul 21, Bucharest, Romania. |