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06/27/05

Permalink 05:17:32 pm, by Bruno Email , 34 words, 153 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements

New email address

As of today, I'm starting to use my new "official" email address: bruno at fruxant dot com. Slowly I will be trying to move my conversations from the old one to the new one.

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06/17/05

Permalink 07:56:39 pm, by Bruno Email , 127 words, 96 views   English (US)
Categories: Philosophy

Putting a bet on 43things

I’m fully aware that the mere thought of “enhancing my life” is as abstract and vague as it is attractive, mesmerizing.

The usual problem to turn this purpose into a reality is, for me, the lack of organization I’ve been able to put into my own mind, together with the poor discipline I have built-in.

That’s why I believe 43things can be of real use for me in that endeavour: it allows me to remember what is important. I promotes a disciplined tackle on my own life. It gives some sort of “permanence” to the effort making it real: reminding me that there are a lot of people out there, with the same objectives, the same achievements, and a lot of experience to share.

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06/16/05

Permalink 06:59:19 pm, by Bruno Email , 195 words, 139 views   English (US)
Categories: Philosophy, Politics

The effect of caring for others

I had an argument with Mabel today in the morning. A stressing, difficult one. It was related to the way each one of us lets the day-to-day events affect how we react, how we behave. How we let the tough events turn ourselves into ugly monsters.

I went to my job with a handful of thoughts, and decided I was being too proud of myself to apologize. And I decided my pride was in the middle of something important. So, I decided to call her and apologize. To no avail, since her phone was off-duty.

At any rate, she called me, and I did what I wanted to do. We have a good time dinning, and she even surprised me with a gift (a very nice Topo Gigio, which can speak)! It is like having read each other's mind. Amazing.

The bottom line seems to be that there are social mechanisms that don't require the intervention of hard, rigid logic, and that for sure have nothing to do with the participation of pride and other not-so-useful feelings. Nonetheless, those mechanisms involve some sort of "communication". I think I'll have to give it a deeper thought.

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06/15/05

Permalink 06:50:23 pm, by Bruno Email , 82 words, 106 views   English (US)
Categories: Computing, Philosophy

43 things

I've just discovered one of the most innovative and -IMHO- useful things (at least from a personal point of view) in a long, long while.

It is called 43 things. I got there because I'm learning Ruby on Rails and this site is a success story.

I believe that using 43 things pushes up effectively one's personal organization, providing a good support for what is commonly called "happiness". I will try to use in a day to day basis. My name there is "unna".

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06/02/05

Permalink 12:39:36 pm, by Bruno Email , 33 words, 99 views   English (US)
Categories: Announcements

My jury has been designated

Daniel Rodríguez (ceneval) says that the jury has been designated, and that next Monday they can tell me the date for the interview.

At least, at last, some change is taking place.

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    México tiene al menos tres oportunidades para ascender del 7° lugar del mercado offshore outsourcing de TIC: Select

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    Programa de Secretaría de Economía administrado por la Fundación México-Estados Unidos para la Ciencia para dar apoyo a Empresas Mexicanas de Alta Tecnología.

    Proximamente: Inauguración TechBA Austin el día 5 de diciembre, 2005

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  • Valley-Mexico mentoring grooms firms for growth

    By Matt Marshall
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    When Alberto Herrera started his own tech company in Tijuana two years ago, he was confident he had the knowledge to take on the risk.

    His team had worked at Panasonic's office in the Mexican border city and had the technical expertise to craft a new kind of wireless sensor network -- one that can be used for hotel room key cards and turn on the heating system once a customer has entered his or her room.

    But Herrera didn't have contacts with venture capitalists and didn't know how to spiff up a business plan.

    That changed last year, once his company, Medida, started working with the Mexico-Silicon Valley Technology Business Accelerator (TechBA for short) in San Jose, funded by an annual $6 million grant from the Mexican government.

    TechBA assigned a special adviser to Medida, to mentor it in Silicon Valley's arcane ways.

    The help is part of an effort by the Mexican government to jump-start its technology economy -- in part through better connections to leading tech centers like Silicon Valley and their entrepreneurial cultures and practices.

    Mexico's domestic information technology and software market totals more than $3 billion a year and has 2,095 companies, according to its economics ministry.

    Mexico exports about $400 million in technology services each year to the United States, about half in business process outsourcing, half in software outsourcing. But Mexico wants to do more than supply its northern neighbor with a cheap source of labor, says Jorge Zavala, chief executive of TechBA. ``The question is, how do we switch from low value-added services and move into information technology?''

    The goal of TechBA, he said, is to help create Mexican companies that own their own technology, and to export $5 billion in technology and other services by 2012.

    In Herrara's case, TechBA appointed a mentor -- Adolpho Nemirosky, an Argentine entrepreneur who has worked in the valley's semiconductor and telecom industries for 13 years. He had co-founded a venture-backed company, Xtreme Logic, and was eager to help others. He is paid a stipend by TechBA.

    His help has already gone a long way. Nemirosky taught Herrera how to make an elevator pitch -- that is, a two- to five-minute synopsis of his company, tailored for impatient investors. He advised him to focus on specific areas, such as sensor systems for hotels and for entertainment software. And he took Herrera to meet with some professors at the University of California-Berkeley, where Herrera was able to secure a technology adviser.

    To top it off, Nemirosky groomed Herrera to present to venture capitalists Tuesday evening at an event hosted by TechBA and an angel group called Silicom Ventures. Besides the investors, a live audience of more than 200 people looked on. And Herrara performed well enough that three of four venture capitalists invited him to talk with them further. ``I'm very pleased with him,'' Nemirosky said of his protege.

    Currently, 40 companies participate in the TechBA program, and the group recently announced its first tangible success: Mexican company JackBe. The company, which has created Web sites for Sears and Citigroup's Mexico operations, raised $6.5 million in venture capital funding in November -- the first Mexican tech company to raise venture capital from the United States, according to TechBA's Zavala.

    There are other signs of late that the U.S. venture capital market is waking to not only to Mexico, the world's ninth largest economy, but also to the fast-growing Hispanic market in this country.

    Sausalito venture firm Sienna Ventures is now raising $100 million for its newest fund to focus on the Hispanic market.

    Herrera's company, Medida, meanwhile, is expanding in the United States. It has $1 million in revenue after a year's work, 10 employees and an office in San Jose, where employees can drop in from Tijuana. Silicon Valley is a good place to develop contacts for customers, said Herrera.

    ``We've gained visibility that would otherwise be very hard to get,'' he said.

    One of his customers is XaviX, which makes interactive sports games and also has offices in San Jose. Medida provides XaviX wireless sensors for its newest fly-fishing game -- where the sensor detects when game players flick their wrists and feeds information back to the game.

    Mexico is just the latest country trying to develop a network here in Silicon Valley.

    Gadi Behar, managing director of Israeli-focused Silicom Ventures, has reached out to groups from Canada, Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands and Hawaii, offering help such as crash courses on Silicon Valley's business culture. ``They all want access to Silicon Valley,'' agreed Michelle Messina, a public relations professional who has also helped companies in these groups.
    Contact Matt Marshall at 408-920-5920 or via his blog at www.SiliconBeat.com

    © 2006 MercuryNews.com and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
    http://www.siliconvalley.com

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    Digg, Memeorandum, Findory, Blogniscient, and other startups promise to manage news overload on the Web.

    Few would dispute that we live in an age of information overload. In the last few years alone, blogs have increased the torrent of information each day to unmanageable levels.
    This would explain, then, why a corresponding torrent of startups has surfaced recently to help us filter, manage, and control this flood of information. Some rely on insightful algorithms that understand popularity to filter the news, while others rely on the preferences of readers.

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