Posted in Business Ok …. I won another entrepreneurship award. That’s cool but some of you got it wrong. Because I am not the one to take all the credit for CaptainGO. Lavi is the man with the plan and I am only glad to help him. Here is the story.
About a year ago Lavinius called me and asked me to go out and have a beer. I say ok. I knew Lavi for like 3 years, when we were part of team in a VIP event (it was yet another entrepreneurship contest that… of course we won ). Since then Lavinus was struggling with a web developing company and I founded Metromind. Lavinius told me about a business plan, that he had won a business plan contest with, about a Romanian booking system and he asked me to give him feedback on the plan.
I did…. in a never ending email I told him that the plan is a the worst business plan ever. That’s because, like most of you, I had this idea of a tourism reservation system “way before Lavinius” and knew how freaking complicated this is. Anyway…. it was a really really crazy plan…. I thought. Signing in hundreds of hotels is crazy! But I am not the brightest man around because I said: “Man… I know that you have a stupid plan and so little cash …. but I want in: I know some stuff about web and marketing and you could use my skills since you don’t quite afford a lot of consultants.” And he said yes.
So in the last year we have been working to make the this business take off. I did my part but Lavi is who should take all the credit (and trust me doing all the management it is not very funny) Like Dragos, I realized that the only way you can change things is to help people who can make it happen. And most of the time they will help you back.
PS: We finished the system and signed in a lot of hotels. It took us about a year.
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