2025
2024
- Batman is Here, on the Quest - XR Industry News of the Week - Oct. 24
- XR Industry News of the Week - Oct. 10
- XR Industry News of the Week - Oct. 4
- XR News of the Week - September 14th, 2024
- We just raised $1.6M for Mixed Reality games
- Productivity Tip: Sleep
- Fanta Makers
- Sort The Court: lazy Saturday game suggestion
- Don't Be Ignored
- The Meta Quest 3 Lite Leak
- Luck in Business
- Teens Play VR Games
- What If They're NOT Right?
- First Year of iPhone Sales
- Multiplayer in VR/MR is More Fun
- Vision Pro Exclusive "What If..."
- 5 VR Trends Driving the Future
- iPad Pro OLED
- Tim Cook Says Businesses See Value in the Vision Pro
- Co-op Scrabble: I'm here for it
- Meta offers up Quest's Horizon OS to other companies
- Redirect 301 with Cloudflare
- Discovery and Monetization on MR platforms
- How is Mobile Gaming Gonna Die?
- Mark Zuckerberg reviews the Apple Vision Pro
- The Martian has a New, “Lost” Chapter
- Apple Notes is a Powerful App
- What Games to Play in VR/MR/AR?
- 24 Hours with Apple Vision Pro
- Apple Vision Pro Sold Out
- Blogging from The South Pole
- My New Alarm Clock
- Vitamin String Quartet
- Candlelight Concert Experience
- Best Video for Retention and Virality in Social Games
- Kouign-Amann
- Speed Puzzling
- Best Quest 3 Quality of Life Tip
- Blue Eyed Samurai
- Mixed Reality Devices in 2024
- Every English-Language Video Game Magazine Still In Print
2023
- My Bluesky ID: @bobbyvoicu.com [Out of Time Post]
- Turn Your Puppy into A Disney Character using AI image Generator
- A Startup Founder's Reading Plan
- Reading Plan #2
- Reading plan #1
- Reading Plan #5
- Reading Plan #4
- Reading Plan #3
- Reading Plan #8
- Reading Plan #7
- Reading Plan #6
2022
2021
- Foundation: The Official Podcast
- What is iOS 15 bringing?
- I want: SteamDeck
- SD Card formatter for Raspberry Pi compromised SD cards
- Brandolini's law or the bullshit asymmetry principle
- Chat etiquette: Hi every time you start?
- 5th Ocean: The Southern Ocean
- The Impact of Work from Home
- Q back to Star Trek
- Panic's Playdate gaming device
- Games I'm interested from E3 2021
- Witcher Season 2 teaser
- A little bit about IG algorithms
- Zoom Towns is a great name
- Streaming on Twitch at 43
- StackOverflow acquired for $1.8 Billion
- A WEIRD interview: Marc Andreessen
- Accessibility phone apps
- Phone Shaker for Fitness
- The Expanse
- Algarve
- Romanian food in Portugal
- Friends: The Reunion
- Pupfluencers
- A great sales deck and 5 sales fundamentals
- Yahoo! sold for less than $5B
- htaccess 301 redirects
- Interviewing
- Bitclout
- BTC down 40% or something
- What if UFOs are real?
- The wave of European VCs
- Fighting the fear of rejection
- The Great Online Game
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition - Nostalgia in effect
- Snow in May, in Portugal
- MacOS quick actions: Resize image and change to jpg
- Two Hollywood stars buy a football club in UK
- Carrd: The Making Of
- How to search reddit for specific domains
- Are young or old lives worth more?
- A good day
- Nicolau Cafe in Lisbon
- Serendipity
- What Are No-Vaxxers Thinking, from The Atlantic
- Reminder: Some CSS for this blog
- The iPad software is not where it should
- Hades: One More Time!
- On the Size of Social Media Platforms and My Blog
- Formula1 Portuguese GP Posters
- Basecamp as Villains and an Email Subscription Form
- Feeling like in a movie
- Short non-fiction books to read
- Portugal by Car: Cascade Poço da Broca da Barriosa
- India’s 2nd Wave of COVID: A Lesson in Exponential Growth
- Clubhouse Clones List
- A Real Life Robot Cue Stick Playing Pool
- I didn't know one of the Adobe founders was kidnapped for ransom in 1992
- How People Get Rich in 2021
- What is the hardest thing you ever worked at?
- The first 18 months of a startup
- Do pandemics ever completely end? Sometimes...
- Why Writers Write (according to Joan Didion)
- The power of fans: Taylor Swift's negotiation tactics
- About Music, Fame and Social Media
- Creators and Freelancers are Taking Over the World
- What is LinkedIn now? Why build a Clubhouse competitor?
- The a16z Marketplace 100 report for 2021
- Disco Elysium Final Cut on PlayStation
- How To Block Websites in the Host file on Your Mac
- Daylight Saving Time: Can We Just Decide on One?
- Diminutives in Portugal (or Portugalinha?), as a Foreigner
- You Can Mute All PS5 Audio with the DualSense's Microphone Button
- A Casino's Database Was Hacked Through A Smart Fish Tank Thermometer
- Calendar Alarms Shortcut: Don't Forget Your Calls Anymore
- Did I get Zoom fatigue in 2020? Here are some numbers from my Google Calendar
2020
- Quick Wins: Keeping You Moving Forward
- Effective or Efficient, Which One Are You?
- The REAL Reasons Why VCs Won't Invest in Your Startup
- Weekend Reading: The Making of Prince of Persia - The Journals
- Finally! The Last of Us Part 2 (Collector's Edition) is here
- Life Changing Books I've Read
- Automation is the Name of the Game
- The keyboard I use: Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
- The Last of Us, Part 2, State of Play
- Most Difficult Questions I Answered During an Investment Pitch
- Big Deal: Joe Rogan's Podcast on Spotify Only
- Worldometers.info Gets 1 Billion Visits in April 2020
- What's the biggest startup MVP mistake you can make?
- How to Validate a Software/App Idea with Less than $200: A Case Study of MavenHut's Solitaire Arena
- Is Saturday a Business Day?
- Which entrepreneur made tractors before entering the sports car business?
- Supercell's business deconstructed
- Used Lenovo ThinkPad Buying Guide
- Transpose and Remove Duplicates in Google Sheets (Docs)
- "Natural" Mouse Scroll for Windows 10
- Install Visual Studio Code on Raspberry Pi
- Updated: March 11 - The Economic Impact of The COVID-19 (coronavirus) Outbreak
- Books to Read in February 2020 [Poll] - The CEO Library Book Club
- Stupid ideas: the good, the... good?
- Space for Disorganization: The organized chaos we all need
- Best acting I've ever seen
- Blogging as a Lean Startup
- The Decade in Review cornucopia of links
- Living in Portugal: Lost in Translation or Cultural Differences?
- The games I've played in the last decade
2019
- My Rediscovery of Isaac Asimov: I, Asimov
- The Witcher on Netflix. And The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Switch
- Best Books of 2019
- PlayStation's State of Play games I want to play
- Avicii Tribute Concert
- I (used to) write at The CEO Library
- Carturesti Carusel in Bucharest: Great libraries and book stores of the world
- Most underrated skill you never ask about
- Business Basic Advice and Personal Basic Advice: Mega List
- Looking to buy websites! Have one?
- Apple Arcade, first week
- The Agony of Trying to Unsubscribe - TED Video
- Star Trek: Picard
- October Christmas tree, why not?
- Don't start a SIDE business, start a business
- Wine at EuroDisney
- Who would you be without Instagram or Social Media?
- Story driven and story rich games on Nintendo Switch
- The perfect sunglasses: rubbery, light weight Polaroids
- Regex crossword and puzzle
- The richest Romanian comes now from tech
- Where is your company on the Silicon Valley clock? [To Read]
- I started watching American football at (almost) 40. Here's why
- Smooth and silky office chair ride
- How to find a startup cofounder (and convince them to join you)
- I unlocked the Portuguese internet
- How to Approach an Angel Investor by Email
- Peacocks and sunsets in Portugal
- "This is such an interesting case!", the doctor says
- Weird things I own: the huge tea mug
- The easiness of city life
- Weirdly interesting YouTube videos
- Incremental improvements in SEO
- iPad OS: The best Safari on mobile
- Battlestar Galactica: a lot of years later
- Raspberry Pi 4: First thoughts
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- Some books I've read
- Read at least 5 hours per week to keep learning
- Apple spends 500+ millions on games for Arcade
- Portugal's "secret": Pastel de Nata
- The Last "Live Audience" Show
- Big List of Podcasts for Online Business
- Podcasts on YouTube?
- Make your Startup's Investor Pitch Deck Better with These Resources
- If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won't turn on or is frozen
2018
- Favicons in Safari 12 Tabs
- No Virtual Machine apps in Spotlight search on MacOS
- Indie Hackers grew to $5,000/month and was acquired in 10 months
- Reward Behaviour, Not Milestones
- Best Productivity Hack: Enough Sleep
- The Price of Success
- The Defiant Ones
- Using an iPad Pro as a laptop replacement
- Shitfaced meaning
- Tea and Milk
- Why you will fail to have a great career
- Early Stage Investing is about Trust
- Books I Read in 2017 - The CEO Library Podcast
2017
- Add Favicons to Safari on MacOS
- The CEO Library Story – Months #2 & #3
- The CEO Library Story - Month #1
- I launched The CEO Library - book recommendations from the people we look up to
- Monday Entrepreneurship and Business Links #1
- There are bad days, too
- How to Handle the Investor Rejections
- Difficult Investor Questions for the Early Startup Founders
- Personal Health and Fitness as a Business
- Be There and Execute the Plan Every Day
- The eerie silence of Facebook: Unfollow all
- I've finished the free Practical JavaScript course
- Subscription Boxes - A great business model :: Newsletter Spotlight
- Effective or Efficient, Which One Are You?
- If it's not "Yes", look for a fast "No"
- Thinking of coding
- The delusion of investor supported startups
- How I use Reddit and how to make the site useful for you
- Food for Thought: Over Invested, Less Objective
- Online services and tools I pay for
- I almost quit MavenHut 6 months after starting it
- What's it like to start a company?
- RebelBio mentoring in Cork, Ireland
- Book review: Alex Ferguson - My Autobiography
- Entrepreneurial Europe vs. Asia and US
- Best Startup/Business Books I've read in 2016
2016
- Multiplier Skills and Specific Skills
- Books I Read in the Last 3 Months
- Experimenting
- English as an efficiency tool
- Missing curiosity
- Games to Play
- On Quantity vs. Quality
2015
- Don't Waste My Time!
- Book Review: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
- Business Ideas: Heaven and Hell Lounge/Club
- Book Review: The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
2014
- Open Finder in Other Folder than All My Files
- Facebook's Mobile Apps
- The Power of Not Specialising (sort of)
- Terminal tricks
- Gaming links
- When Will Your Startup Be Pronounced Dead?
2013
- [Job] iOS Developer at MavenHut
- Fallout 1,2 and Tactics for Free on GOG.com
- [Tools I Use] Use Evernote WebClipper with Chrome/Safari on iOS
- 2013 Young Entrepreneur from Wall-Street.ro
- Don't Stop Growing
- Speaking at How To Web
- DRM-Free Fall Insomnia Sale on GOG.com
- [Sunday Video] In-App Marketing: 6 Tips For Maximizing Player LTV
- Gamers and relationships
- [Founder profile] Radu Georgescu
- The Romanian Week in Startups
- Going Offline When Doing Business Online
- [To Read] Case Study on Going to $100K/month in SaaS
- [Sunday Game] GOG.com - Home of Great Classic Games
- [Saturday Video] Ron Conway at Startup School, Y Combinator
- Time Zones
- Be the Good Kind of Agressive
- Use Your Network to Get Investment
- [Slides] 10 Secrets I Wish I Knew While Raising Money
- Getting an Investment Takes More Time Than Expected
- [Sunday Game] Masters of Doom (book)
- [Saturday Video] Malcom Gladwell's David and Goliath: How to Use Small Size in Business and Life
- The Unseen Side of Success
- Most Popular Articles on Facebook
- How To Web Startup Spotlight Participants Announced
- Sunday Game: Grand Slam Tennis 2
- Saturday Video: Talk About Entrepreneurship at TechHub
- Get More Done: Time Boxed Meetings
- Number of Employees as Metric of Success
- Tools I Use: iPad Mini
- Facebook Page for Startup Founders
- Sunday Game: Strike Wing
- Saturday Video: Great Startup Pitches
- Willpower and Decisions
- 2 Tips to Get You Into Accelerator Admission and Startup Competitions
- Financing for an Idea: Get Your First Prototype
- LinkedIn Pitch Deck, Explained by Reid Hoffman
- Indie Gaming Reading List
- You Had the Greatest Idea Ever, Now What?
- Sunday Game: Gemini Rue (iPad/iPhone)
- Saturday Video: TED Videos I've Seen Recently
- Luck and Work in Game Development
- Could We Study Gaming in School, in Romania?
- Another 30 Days Challenge Down
- Indie Games: Questions?
- Two Things: An Exit and a Short Interview
- Sunday Video: AirBnB - Then and Now
- Saturday Game: Gravitarium for iOS
- Blindspots and Co-founders
- Notes from Mobile User Acquisition Meetup
- 4 Tips for Bad Weather Productivity
- Tools I use: StayFocusd Chrome Extension, Productivity Enhancer
- Huge List with Tools for Entrepreneurs
- Sunday Videos: The Story of Fab, 9 Months of Super Growth
- Memories from Childhood: Broken Sword Remastered (iOS and Android)
- Raising Money and Buying a Business: Two Unrelated Articles to Read
- Create an Amazing Team Meetup at TechHub Bucharest
- 3 VC Blogs I Read and You Should Too
- Best Tip I Have For Mindmaps
- Gaming Industry: Some Numbers (and GTA5's $1 Billion)
- Sunday Video: Oatmeal's Matt Inman at SXSW 2013
- Saturday Game: A Dark Room
- Startup Weekend Timisoara and a Grumpy Old Man
- Romanian Game Developers Association Launch
- Tools I Use: Evernote, the Braindump App
- First Day of School and Entrepreneurship
- My 30 Days Challenges
- Sunday Video: Phil Libin, Evernote
- Saturday Game: Last of Us
- Good Design, Invisible Design
- Business, Poker and +EV Choices
- One Month of Writing
- Founder Profile: Mihai Micle, Freshome
- Sunday Video: Real Gamers About Candy Crush Saga
- Saturday Game: Braid
- Creating Killer Games - TechHub Event
- Questions about Gaming
- Work Hard, Play Hard, Get a Massage
- Bucharest Gaming Meetup at TechHub
- Basic Advice is the Best Advice
- Sunday Video: Brad Feld Talking to Mark Suster
- Saturday Game: Jelly Splash on iOS
- Jobs The Movie
- Startups Don't Work with Other Startups
- Learn English!
- Know Your Numbers
- Sunday Video: Elon Musk at PandoDaily Fireside Chat
- Saturday Game: iPad and Football Equals SCORE!
- Interesting Business TV Series
- The Power of Your Network (Or Get a Little Help From Your Friends)
- Get a Good Night Sleep
- It's About What You Believe
- Just Enjoy Good News
- Sunday Video: Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School [2 videos]
- A Personal History of Games
- Be Investable
- You Don't Pitch Just to Investors
- Tools I use: IFTTT (If This Then That)
- Ten Minutes Before Work, Every Day
- Sunday Video: Fred Wilson, Pandodaily Fireside Chat
- My "Me" Moments
- Always be Pitching, right?
- Lifestyle Business: A Real Option
- Sheer Panic: Way Too Familiar for a Startup Founder
- MavenHut in the Romanian Press
- Story of MavenHut
- Unseen Perks of Being in a Startup: A King, A Flight CEO and a Comedian
- Are you Brazilian?
- My comfort zone is being out of my comfort zone
2012
- Computers = Trucks
- Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised « Rand's Blog
- Guiness Pint
- Max Payne
- How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
- Seinfeld at the O2 Arena in Dublin
- Seagull in Dublin
- Tom and Jerry playing Solitaire Arena
- Reid Hoffman And Peter Thiel In Conversation: Finding The Best Candidates For The Job - Forbes
- Dublin Double Decker
- When I get a bill from our lawyer, I'm like
- Obama Drives Sphero
- #Conspiracy: Romania, a surprise
- Business of Convincing
- The Problem with Startup Advice
- Google Doodle ZX Spectrum
- Soshable's Tagline
- Amsterdam
- New Mercedes Benz SL
- Would you attend a conference featuring your network?
- Dublin's Tips on Tipping
- The Most Helpful Advice I Have Read
- How We Fooled Ourselves into Delaying Our Startup’s Launch
- User Acquisition Prices
- Illegal New York Poker Clubs: A Former Waitress Reveals What Goes on Inside - The Daily Beast
- Top 10 Technology VCs Online
- Leonardo da Vinci’s resume
- The Dirty Little Secret Of Overnight Successes
- Business Planning Will Make a Comeback
- Daytripper Dublin