Sérgio Santos

Founder and developer at Bloco.
Technician at Rádio Baixa. Host of Posto.
Member of Coimbr'a Pedal.

What I Learned Bootstrapping Folyo in 2011

🔗 What I Learned Bootstrapping Folyo in 2011

Tags: startups

Of course the story is the same when the company “runs off a cliff without leaving skidmarks,” never having extracted a single dime from a single person. The same struggle, same uncertainty, same near-impossibility.


So how do you tell the difference between the chaos that leads to unthinkable success and that which leads nowhere at all?


I’m not sure you can.

It’s a torturous chaos until it isn’t

Tags: startups

We live in a highly individualistic culture. When we’re shopping for a vacation we’re primarily thinking about Where. The travel companies offer brochures showing private beaches and phenomenal sights. But when you come back from vacation, you primarily treasure the memories of Who — the people you met from faraway places, and the lives you came in contact with.

Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

Tags: tips

After some more months of work, we just released Bundlr’s premium plans and a new homepage under the new URL: http://bundlr.com.

Tags: bundlr

5. Learn to fear not shipping

Seth Godin attributes much of his success not to producing better than others, but to shipping more than others. I’ve learned that the main reason we don’t ship as much as they could or should, is that we fear shipping for so many reasons. In this post I attempt to turn the fear on its head and highlight why we should really fear not shipping instead of shipping.

10 lessons from my startup journey so far

Tags: startups