“How are you?” – This is one of the question that lately has become really difficult to answer. I usually say “Working“, “Busy“, or my favourite, “I don’t even have the time to think how I am” .

As you already know, GlobePinners.com’s launch is imminent. Within less than 30 days the first release will be available to a selected number of beta-testers friends for a couple of week and then the site will be available for every one. For this reason 99% of my awake time is  in front of my notebook, writing and debugging code in Visual Studio (OMG I like C# so much!) and I don’t have time to think about anything else.

By the way, I have a big news. A big friend of us co-founders, Wil, is starting a round-the-world trip tomorrow. He’ll be traveling for six months, covering 5 continents. He’s also planning to do some PR for us, but stay tuned for that. If you speak Italian, you definitely want to read his blog at http://www.globepinners.com/wil/

Well, it’s 3.35 am here in Italy. Time for me to go to bed. I’m really confident that all the code I’m writing will become a very successful and usefull site

Just a couple of  “motivators”:

Author: Nicola Cassolato

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When you are a startup entrepreneur you are on a rollercoaster. Sometimes you have eaten heavy the night before. Everyone, sooner or later, have a bad day.  If you are focused on your job, on all its variables, and then some problem happens, it’s very hard to be calm like a Buddha (to be honest in these moments it’s hard also to be calm like Charles Manson).

There is a thing that makes us even angrier: an angry entrepreneur who hides his feelings trying to look like a saint. Having a bad day is not a problem. You need to keep a contact also with your bad feelings. The important thing is let adrenaline in veins becoming good energy. There are some ways to get it. For example many women go shopping (it isn’t just a stereotype, it’s the truth) and over a bag they go into the same raptures of an Emo goes watching “Twilight”. Instead there are other people who love to kill Nazis (by this we don’t mean the famous Inglorious Basterds’ quote).

Today one of the two co-founder had a very fucking shitty day. He played “Return to Castle Wolfenstein” for two hours, speaking like a longshoreman. Plus he booked 81 fights as birthday and Christmas presents for his friends. We’re talking about the Ryanair promotion for free seats so he spent a good 81cents for all of them! After this he was calm and full of energy. We give you this advice, young entrepreneurs: enjoy your anger!

p.s.: hey people, we don’t want to boost any form of violence here. But, if you’ve got some videos in which  you went crazy and for example you’ve beaten your room mate with a mace, send it to us. We’ll remunerate you for that.

Author: Alex Contarin

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We hate you, Matt. And we hate your genius. Your great idea has been  very important for us; we watched “Where the Hell is Matt?” thousands of times (in some of them we started to dance with bad results). But now is the time to find our Matt, because we can’t clone you: our endorser is Wil. You’ll meet him soon.

Currently, we are creating an “ad hoc” campaign for his travel, which will start from San Francisco, passing through South America,  Australia, Asia and it will conclude in Japan.  We are defining the last details and partnerships. This initiative will support the release online of GlobePinners.com on November.

So, wait for the official news! For now it’s only a blog rumor. However, we are going to have our attention whore, too! Hurray! We are also thinking about some challenges for our pleasure…and yours. If you have any idea (without going too much against human rights), send us an email and we’ll see if we can do.

Well, welcome Wil (it isn’t a tongue twister!).

p.s.: The next time we will imitate Matt, I’ll update the video on youtube, so you can see how bad Nicola dances. (just kiddin’…LOL).

Author: Alex Contarin

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How many hours we’ve spent looking for the best flight deal on Tuesday’s promo, the best hotel according to your needs (also doing some betting eventually), always checking the ratings and memorizing that almost every noob who’s been to Paris or London has complained of the small room (paying only 80$ per night you could never have a wing of the palace of Versailles!).

When you are the co-founder of a travel planning website sometimes, between meetings with investors and product development, you risk forgetting all the frustration you felt when you started. That frustration was the reason you began this start-up. And it’s wonderful to sense the adrenaline running through your veins while you’re clicking on “book” and then you go directly to your mail account to check if the confirmation mail is arrived. This is the spirit everyone should keep: the pleasure, the thrill of doing the best we can. Because it’s true that travel is business but it is also true that our primary reason was that surge of adrenaline.

p.s. I have the doubt I said nothing (or better I’m fucking sure …this article is useless), but I strongly felt this feeling…and feeling is business…

Author: Alex Contarin

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Let’s admit it: we’ve never been under such a pressure, not even during the Football World Cup final match in 2006. We didn’t pass the selection. Now I know how the French have felt that time. Or how Materazzi has felt after Zidane’s headbutt! Anyway it has been a bad knock out, we must say it. But you know what? It’s been great, to say the least! Without being hypocrites, it hurts but these are the things which can give a new push to find your motivations, to increase the running, to try new ways! As a matter of fact we’re having collaboration requests and appointments for some magazine interview. Could it be better than this? Of course it could! But we’re on the right way…

p.s. If someone of the Seedcamp’s guys is going to Venice, please send us an e-mail: we’ll offer a coffe. Not in San Marco though…otherwise we’ll have to find investors for that too!

Author: Alex Contarin

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