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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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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. :)
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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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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"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
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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.
Well done in creating a sucessful company, it's one of the goals I'd love to achieve in life. :thumbsup:
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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
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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.
Well done to you and your partners.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
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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.
Welcome back, Daniel, however briefly! And Congratulations! :-D That's awesome news, and a job well done! :beer:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Rage wrote:
By the way, no crivo web site in English
The English web site version is scheduled for after the Latin version. DD, when do you think we will know enough to make the Latin version go live?
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
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Rage wrote:
By the way, no crivo web site in English
The English web site version is scheduled for after the Latin version. DD, when do you think we will know enough to make the Latin version go live?
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
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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 amazing story Daniel!
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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:
And your post was one of the reasons I've posted this, I thought "hey, what if more people still remembers me after all this time?"
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Rage wrote:
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Now is the time for elbows??? Shows you how much I need the refresher
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
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Rage wrote:
By the way, no crivo web site in English ? Really ?
I understand your frustration. But, as of today, we're still targeting only Brazilian customers, and I believe that, more than an English Web Site, one should have some decent content to offer. Our website is very dynamic with new content about credit and risk almost every day. As soon as we start offering our services abroad, we'll have and English web site.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Rage wrote:
By the way, no crivo web site in English ? Really ?
I understand your frustration. But, as of today, we're still targeting only Brazilian customers, and I believe that, more than an English Web Site, one should have some decent content to offer. Our website is very dynamic with new content about credit and risk almost every day. As soon as we start offering our services abroad, we'll have and English web site.
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.
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I see this as a huge business possibility loss, especially with the advertisement you're getting just now. But then again, I am no expert... What is Crivo doing ? Seems an interface between some LAN and the hostile web, from the flash animation...
Rage wrote:
What is Crivo doing ? Seems an interface between some LAN and the hostile web, from the flash animation...
LOL. It's an automated credit and risk decision software. Crivo collects data from over 300 different information sources (internal databases and external ones), standardizes this data (since it's coming from all over the place you need, for instance, to correct typos in names and addresses), applies a credit policy that our customers put in our software (with a formula language similar to Excel, and with a visual interface that allows a business user do that). All of this takes 3 seconds and allows banks, insurance companies and telco companies to take millions of decisions per month. In the US you have a pervasive credit score, like a FICO score, so things are very different, but in Brazil and in most of other countries, there's not such a thing. What we did essentially was to build a P2P infrastructure that allows our customers to achieve the same results or better. I hope that the drawing makes more sense now.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Rage wrote:
What is Crivo doing ? Seems an interface between some LAN and the hostile web, from the flash animation...
LOL. It's an automated credit and risk decision software. Crivo collects data from over 300 different information sources (internal databases and external ones), standardizes this data (since it's coming from all over the place you need, for instance, to correct typos in names and addresses), applies a credit policy that our customers put in our software (with a formula language similar to Excel, and with a visual interface that allows a business user do that). All of this takes 3 seconds and allows banks, insurance companies and telco companies to take millions of decisions per month. In the US you have a pervasive credit score, like a FICO score, so things are very different, but in Brazil and in most of other countries, there's not such a thing. What we did essentially was to build a P2P infrastructure that allows our customers to achieve the same results or better. I hope that the drawing makes more sense now.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
