Yesterday I gave a guest talk sort of thing at the Jobfair on my faculty. The point was to perform the function of a live demo for my startup incubator and help them get more startups that way.

My personal point was to get some blokes to go “HEY! I wanna to help with that too!”, which of course did not happen because the audience was mostly electronics and hardware people. But nevertheless, it was a lovely chat.

Although, I noticed a very interesting trend. None of them felt very keen on becoming entrepreneurs while still at uni. They thought it was too hard, that next to classes and studying they don’t really have time to do anything else. Hell, I even got an almostpplause for being such an impressive lad that I can do both AND keep a girlfriend.

But seriously, it’s not hard at all. Just take this week’s Tuesday as an example:

On Tuesday I worked for nine hours, five of which were studying/taking a hard maths exam (I count school as work because it’s my “job”). I went to the playhouse and I watched an episode of House. I also helped my girlfriend prepare a presentation for school.

And I still went to bed by midnight.

See, it’s that fucking hard!

Not only have I never passed as many exams as I have now that I’m also an entrepreneur, I’ve also taken up a new sport (boxing), which takes six hours out of every week.

Sure it’s not all fun and games and many people find it difficult to jam 60 to 70 working hours into every week. But if you think being a student and an entrepreneur is hard, you’re trippin’ man. Seriously.

Just get off yer arse and do it. The television and alcohol can take care of themselves.

Tags: Boxing, Business, Entrepreneur, food for thought, Health, life, People

Yesterday somebody shared a cool podcast with me.

Well I should say they tried to, thing is, I didn’t have an iStore account. But whatever, I’ll just make one right? Well … no. That particular podcast is only available in the US due to copyright restrictions or something, or maybe it’s just that most of the store is US only, but whatever. Thing is, I had to make an account and I had to make an American one. Not a Slovene one.

No biggie right, go to the iStore, make an account.

Well no, you can’t choose where you’re from.

So let’s change the language/locale to US and voila, american store. HEY even paypal is available now (yes we’ve got PayPal in Slovenia but Apple is an idiot and doesn’t aknowledge this fact).

Yay, choose paypal, make account. Nope, says I’m not from the US. Fine, I’ll give you my credit card info … well fuck you mister Swizec, credit card says you’re not american. Fail.

This is the process I had to go through to have a valid US Apple ID and iStore account.

1. Find a free App.
2. Download App.
3. Create account
4. Choose without CreditCard (they can’t demand payment info for free downloads, some legal stuff afaik)
5. Enter some US address found on google maps (I used M5 Industries because Mythbusters is made there and I love Mythbusters). Btw this isn’t identity theft because you use your own name.
6. Rejoice, you have a valid US iStore account

Great! I can now download FREE stuff that is, for some strange and utterly absurd reason, only available in the US. Why have region restricted copyright when the content is bloody free is … can anyone explain this at all?

Tags: Apple, Business, life, United States

Last week’s trip to London was governed by the laws of Murphy, or Sod as Londoners would call ‘im. It was a fun and interesting trip, don’t get me wrong, and I still love London almost as much as I did after my last trip there two years ago. It’s just that pretty much everything imaginable that could go wrong actually done gone wrong and the culmination of this was that we didn’t advance to Seedcamp week.

But let me start from the beginning. Day one went great, we finished the linear algebra exam (flunked it yet again btw) and set of to Munich for the flight. The ride went spectacularly smooth and we got to our flight on time. And that’s when the trouble started.

During the day I got some more ideas on how to polish our presentation and decided to do them at the airport. There wasn’t enough time. Alright, I’ll do them on the aeorplane. Oh crap, aeroplanes don’t have internets, no go. Very well, can’t do the presentation, can’t do the polishing on the demo. Fine.

So then we got to Gatwick and paid through the nose to get to Victoria station. Now what? Well after a brief search for somewhere to stay, we took a ride off to Pimlico where the fucking shoebox was ready to take us in. It was a twin bed

Tags: Business, life, Linear algebra, London, Seedcamp

Seedcamp, as many probably know, is a bit like America’s Next Top Model, but for entrepreneurs and their ideas. Therefore, apply I must, yes. Well the deadline was last night and we’ve done the best we can and now we wait for the gods of innovation to smile down upon us and smite us with their blessings.

The whole process went a little bit like this:

• work on a project with a vague idea of what you actually want (for a year)
• get so involved with the details of the project that you forget to even consider the master vision
• suddenly snap out of it and realise you’ve been approaching the problem all wrong
• boil away all the cruft and come back to a naked master vision
• decide to give it a new wrapping and rework the whole thing with help from some awesome people
• realise something like this would do great on seedcamp with the right pitch
• suddenly remember the deadline is in a week

After that it was just a mad dash to the finish line, which ultimately culminated in a rather lovely pitch (a full 20 hours before deadline, lovely), a quite well working proof of concept prototype demo, which I’m not going to show you guys, and a video, which you’re about to see.

The whole week was packed chock full of twelve and more hour workdays, especially because I also had

Tags: Business, Information, life, Prototype, Seedcamp