Tag Archives: romania

Startup Weekend Romania – November 2011

Dear startup-ers, prepare your pitches and don’t miss this! On November, 11-13, the second Startup Weekend Romania event will take place in Bucharest. Together with other Startup Weekend events from all over the world, it will happen during the Global Entrepreneurship Week

FlairBuilder, the Romanian wireframing tool, launches new version

FlairBuilder has released the first beta of its 3.0 version. The new version comes with UI improvements and a lot of new features like page layers, a new editor, a sitemap view, the possibility to add annotations, improved drawing tools and much more.

FlairBuilder is a wireframing and prototyping tool aimed to help

Instamap, the real-time photo sharing app, is now availabe for iPhone

A few months ago, we covered the Instamap for iPad launch. Back then, Stefan Filip and Raul Andrisan were promising an update that would make Instamap availabe for iPhone also. And here it is, new and enhanced, available for both your mobile i-devices. Let’s take a look at how the app works and the new features that were introduced since our last chat with the guys.

Instamap is a client for the Instagram social network. To use the app, you first need to have an Instagram account. When you first open the Instamap application you will be asked for you Instagram credentials.

Seedmoney-funded social commerce platform Squeeqly hits the deadpoool

Squeeqly, the social shopping start-up based in Romania, has recently announced it’s closure. Squeeqly has had quite a life, gaining awards in it’s early stages and attracting investment, but in the end proving not to be viable. Let’s have a look at the life cycle of this interesting start-up and see what we can learn from it’s experience.

The idea, the development, the launch

Squeeqly’s founders, Mihai Rotaru and Alexandru Rada, created a product that would help e-commerce companies 

Romanian startup Appscend in the final of the Stop Human Trafficking App Challenge

The Romanian Startup Appscend has acceded into the final judging stage of the NetHope Stop Human Trafficking App Challenge. The winner app will be implemented by a Russian NGO to help victims of human trafficking. The creators are also competing for a grand prize of $20k.

The application was developed by Sebastian Vaduva, Gabriel Dobocan and Andrei Marinescu, co-founders of Appscend. “We chose to leverage the power of Appscend Mobile Platform and rapidly setup an efficient app concept for Nethope and the “Stop Human Trafficking” project.