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I built and sold the most epic companies without going insane 🤯
I helped a whole country fight COVID-19 🦠 with Machine Learning
I created a wealth management company from scratch and kicked Wall Street's ass
I ran the first arbitrage algorithms on blockchain, made and lost everything (and then made them back) [...]
Invested in a unicorn🦄 by being annoying

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Five steps to get an amazing domain name for your Startup

You know what takes the most time when building a Startup? Finding the freaking name and an available domain.

A year ago, I hired some amazing designers and engineers and we brainstormed around a financial product with the code name HelloFire. Fire stands for Financial Independence - Retire …

Projects

I managed a fund that gave no money, took no equity and had an exit

It was 2013 and I was in San Francisco reading the news about a European program that was going to "fund" new VCs. This would have been the beginning of the Startup community in Greece.

The issue is that most of these "VCs", were cookie-cutters: no Entrepreneurial background, no investing …

Projects

I organized my own conference like Gary Vee in 30 days

This year (2021 for the visitors from the future), I run my first own conference: "V as in Metaverse". It didn't have thousands of attendees (because there is a thing called COVID-19) but it had NFTs as tickets, tons of sponsors and happened in the best place you can be …

Trading

I bought this image for $1500 (and I sold it for +50% in two weeks)

If a year ago someone told me that they bought an image, a simple file that is trivial to download for $1500, I would think that they are idiots. But as it happens with all new opportunities, the line between idiots and informed investors is blurred.

In January 2021 I …

Trading

Trading Ethereum: Making 10% every 20 minutes

This is more of a "How to build your own algotrading strategy - the Ethereum edition" and not a "make money fast" blog post.

It is also a real example with real returns (and real production errors that cost me money) where you can see how to identify opportunities, why algotrading …

Trading

Machine Beats Human: Using Machine Learning in Forex

This is the another post of the series: How to build your own algotrading platform.

Machine learning and trading is a very interesting subject. It is also a subject where you can spend tons of time writing code and reading papers and then a kid can beat you while playing …

Projects

Five steps to get an amazing domain name for your Startup

You know what takes the most time when building a Startup? Finding the freaking name and an available domain.

A year ago, I hired some amazing designers and engineers and we brainstormed around a financial product with the code name HelloFire. Fire stands for Financial Independence - Retire …

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My goals for 2023

Whoa! Another year! Congrats to everyone!

I hope you managed to crush your goals and if you didn't, maybe those weren't really your goals? Just saying.

I was thinking to do a recap of 2022 (I even gathered photos with the highlights) but this is a the last Friday of …

Projects

I managed a fund that gave no money, took no equity and had an exit

It was 2013 and I was in San Francisco reading the news about a European program that was going to "fund" new VCs. This would have been the beginning of the Startup community in Greece.

The issue is that most of these "VCs", were cookie-cutters: no Entrepreneurial background, no investing …