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Sem categoria 12/04/11

Irony: The major icon of USA space race found its rest at the week of the 50th anniversary of first man in space

NASA just announced the final home for the space shuttles, and Endeavour will rest at the California Science Center, in Los Angeles. It is a bit ironic that this week we were celebrating the 50 ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 08/04/10

Software Patents not worth the effort?

This week I read an article from Erik J. Heels, where he states that patents are not always worth a try for startups, mainly when it comes to software patents. Well, it happens that I have being ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 13/01/10

Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

I may have been the first person who bought Crush It! before knowing who Gary Vaynerchuk was and having never seen the Wine Library TV. The latter being of no surprise, since I don’t drink. ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 20/11/08

Perhaps a Starting Point?

Last post I wondered a little bit about how could a company give enough freedom to their employees so they can create their creative environment and do a better job. After posting, I began ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 09/11/08

First thoughts about the event…

I went through the first morning of the event, and it was very inspiring. The speakers quality is very ok, and the event very well organized, but the catering service… Ok, we’re ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 15/12/07

Umit at “The Bourne Ultimatum”

Look mom! Umit has featured “The Bourne Ultimatum” movie! Movie Directors are going to love UmitMapper and the NetworkInventory for their high-tech movies when we get it integrated ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 16/07/07

Game Theory and Summer of Code

During my last year at University, I spent about the whole year studying economics game theory, in order to make my thesis about friend-to-friend networks and best practices for overlay and ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 10/07/07

Software is not about code, but people and their desires

Thinking that with a really optimized, organized and structured code you’ll make your software the newest killer app ever? Been fast and stable is just a couple of the requisites users look ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 16/05/07

The Secret?

Yes… That’s the name of that almost best seller book (I said best seller, but I didn’t mean best book), and I used it as this post’s title. Actually, I don’t mean to ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 12/04/07

The Awaited Result

Finally I could release the list of selected students for this Summer of Code. Unfortunately, I couldn’t select everyone I wanted, and I had to let go many talented students. I hope that ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

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