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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
Great demonstration of what can be achieved... I am still looking/searching/racking the brain whatever you may call it, for that big idea! Maybe one day I will get there. "This time next year............" - Del Boy Trotters become millionaires[^]
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
Daniel Turini wrote:
vote us here[^
I would, if I knew what the company was called :) Congrats on your success!
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Daniel Turini wrote:
vote us here[^
I would, if I knew what the company was called :) Congrats on your success!
:doh: Sorry, it's Crivo! (Crivo is a Portuguese word for a tool that Jewerly Makers uses to separate their best perls). Edited the post.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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:doh: Sorry, it's Crivo! (Crivo is a Portuguese word for a tool that Jewerly Makers uses to separate their best perls). Edited the post.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
Daniel Turini wrote:
(Crivo is a Portuguese word for a tool that Jewerly Makers uses to separate their best perls)
That is a very specialised term then. I couldn't use one in the kitchen to seperate good beans from bad ones for example.
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:doh: Sorry, it's Crivo! (Crivo is a Portuguese word for a tool that Jewerly Makers uses to separate their best perls). Edited the post.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
Daniel Turini wrote:
Sorry, it's Crivo!
I did find it eventually on the TC post (after several attempts, TC somehow wants me to login and gives me some silly Invalid key error 4 out of 5 times I visit the site).
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
Way to go. Well done to you and the rest of Crivo. I hope that we soon hear how you've become the number 1 "Best international technology company".
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
I'm happy to have heard this a few weeks back ;) still, feels good to read it again. Good for you, Daniel, congrats, and best wishes for the future!
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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Daniel Turini wrote:
(Crivo is a Portuguese word for a tool that Jewerly Makers uses to separate their best perls)
That is a very specialised term then. I couldn't use one in the kitchen to seperate good beans from bad ones for example.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
That is a very specialised term then.
People often use it here in the context where you apply some rigid criteria or rule for approval. Even the "Sieve of Eratosthenes" algorithm is known as "Crivo de Eratóstenes". For a software that takes credit and risk decisions, we thought that the name could be good.
Dalek Dave wrote:
I couldn't use one in the kitchen to seperate good beans from bad ones for example.
Crivos comes in sets, each one with a different size. With a little time, probably you could find one that could be applied to that. Here's a picture of one: http://www.reacel.pt/catalogo/detalhes_produto.php?id=1654[^]
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
That is a very specialised term then.
People often use it here in the context where you apply some rigid criteria or rule for approval. Even the "Sieve of Eratosthenes" algorithm is known as "Crivo de Eratóstenes". For a software that takes credit and risk decisions, we thought that the name could be good.
Dalek Dave wrote:
I couldn't use one in the kitchen to seperate good beans from bad ones for example.
Crivos comes in sets, each one with a different size. With a little time, probably you could find one that could be applied to that. Here's a picture of one: http://www.reacel.pt/catalogo/detalhes_produto.php?id=1654[^]
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
That's incredible, Daniel. You've been with us almost from the start and I remember you talking about your company and your work. I'm going to pass this along to the team. We're not the slickest, nor the loudest, nor the best looking, but we love what we do, and love that every day we help developers (like us, like you, like everyone here) in their every day work, and it's fantastic to think we've made a difference. Thanks for sharing that Daniel, and congratulations. You've made my day!
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
Cheers to you, your idea and your effort in making that idea a success. I know it's an amazing feeling to be there. :thumbsup: I am part of this wonderful community since a few years now and feel blessed to have found it. Cheers again to the wonderful people here. And let me have a beer on your success today! :Beer: Cheers!
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
Thank You for sharing your wonderful experience with us. I wish you Good Luck for the future. :)
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
Wow, good for you. It's heartening to know that there are such stories around. Here's to your continued success :beer: (No Champagne Icon :-))
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That's incredible, Daniel. You've been with us almost from the start and I remember you talking about your company and your work. I'm going to pass this along to the team. We're not the slickest, nor the loudest, nor the best looking, but we love what we do, and love that every day we help developers (like us, like you, like everyone here) in their every day work, and it's fantastic to think we've made a difference. Thanks for sharing that Daniel, and congratulations. You've made my day!
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
We're not the slickest, nor the loudest, nor the best looking, but we love what we do, and love that every day we help developers (like us, like you, like everyone here) in their every day work, and it's fantastic to think we've made a difference.
:thumbsup:
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
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This post is meant as a huge “Thank You” to all the CP community, and specially to Chris, which built it. I believe that many of you will find the story I'll tell here interesting, although a bit long. I’ve been away from posting on the Lounge for the past 5 years, so some of you may not know me at all, but I still read it almost daily. In the 2002 and 2003 the Lounge almost became an addiction to me, and then suddenly, I needed to dedicate more time to my company. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, and things were pretty slow until 2004. “Pretty Slow” means no VC believed in the company and the sales were very slow, and, in the process I lost my economies, my house, my car, everything I built during my whole life just because I and my 2 partners believed a lot in that idea. In 2004 I decided to stop programming (only do it now for fun), and became the salesman of my company. It was a hard change, I needed to change my life a lot, but I managed to make the company grow a lot (we double our sales each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!). As such, we are receiving a lot of attention recently and this year we were interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch![^] We have now over 100 employees, and also the 120 biggest companies in Brazil are our customers. Our sales in 2010 were around US$20 million. In the past few years, we were considered the 5th fastest growing company in Brazil by a major Brazilian business magazine, Exame. Still, we intend to keep doubling the company in the next few years. And today, I just noticed that we are one of the 5 finalists on “The Crunchies” as one of the 5 “Best International” technology companies in 2010. We are competing with companies I admire as Soluto! You can see us here[^] and vote us here (Crivo)[^]; if you feel compelled to it (this is not a “vote me!” post, please). All of this could not be built if it weren’t for CP. In this Lounge and in the technical articles I learned a lot about programming, and this was fundamental when building the software that powers my company.
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That's incredible, Daniel. You've been with us almost from the start and I remember you talking about your company and your work. I'm going to pass this along to the team. We're not the slickest, nor the loudest, nor the best looking, but we love what we do, and love that every day we help developers (like us, like you, like everyone here) in their every day work, and it's fantastic to think we've made a difference. Thanks for sharing that Daniel, and congratulations. You've made my day!
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I thnk *I'm* good looking (as you all can tell from my avatar on my profile page).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997modified on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:48 AM
