It's been an awesome year since May 2011 until now. Since last year, the user base grew really well. You guys joined us in great numbers. We went from 300 users last May, to 10,000 users this May and we had no ads running and such.
We presented the idea of a Smart Web at a TED Meet in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, our hometown and the people from the web loved it. Since then, we've made all Cif2.net websites really smart. We had #devsummer, when we developed the new posting methods and the Easy Editor, which so many of you have loved.
Then we appeared in the press a bit, got selected to pitch at Venture Connect, met awesome people at How To Web 2011, attended the Fabrica de Antreprenori bootcamp for entrepreneurs, received great feedback from our customers and finally focused on the MVP. Seeing how much you loved the MVP, we pushed on. It was interesting to see how much the user base grew from 5,000 in February 2012 to 10,000 in May 2012.
Our CEO, Florin Muresan, was present at Startup Weekend Cluj, where he formed an awesome team to promote literature, met great mentors and had discussions with interesting people. Then we were one of the few selected startups to present at the Balkan Venture Forum in Skopje, Macedonia (we were the only startup from Romania). Had an amazing time at the conference and met awesome people. Then our CEO found out that out of a total of 475 people who applied for an MBA bootcamp, he was accepted into the programme along with 26 other executives. He got a Diploma from ESCP European School of Business, the first ever business school in Europe.
During this year, our CTO, Calin Vingan, became well known in Romania for his skills and people have tried to poach him away for some really nice pays. But he stays true to building the Game that gets you Noticed! Nothing compares to building Zynga Meets Website Builders.
It's our core competence to build awesome websites and get them noticed. That's what our baby, Cif2.net, does and what it teaches each of the 10,000 users. The value of it all is that you build a smart website and it motivates you to get it noticed, while also teaching you how to do it all. Some people who've really played it well, got to the second position in Google in just 2 months. Pretty neat, right? You won't get this result on a wordpress.com blog.
We know that you don't really want to build websites or blogs. What you want is to get Noticed and people to get to know about you, with respect to your profession or passion.
We humans never do things that we aren't motivated to do. Well, we sometimes do, but it never works out well, does it? That's why we need to find motivation to do the things that we have to do. Our best shot is to find our passions, if we want to be better at something.
The team of Cif2.net started a Cause on Facebook that aims to get people noticed based on the things they love. We're forming a tribe of people in search for their passions and people who can lead others to their passions. Our belief is that we all follow these 5 Pillars of Passion:
1) The things we Love define us.
2) Talking about the things we Love makes us happy.
3) Meeting with people who Love the same things as we do is always time well spent.
4) Becoming better at the things we Love is what we strive to do.
5) Reading and Learning about the things we Love is something that we're passionate about.
If you are looking for SEO India, you've got to the right place. SEO experts from all over the world use Cif2.net for it's great SEO features provided by the free sites and the free blogs.
Having a full "army" of automatic SEO features, sites in Cif2.net perform all the SEO sites need to be extremly searchable and indexable by search engines. Experts use sites made here to provide their clients with the most valuable work possible in optimizing sites for search engines. SEO India became a nice part of our community, so we suggest you make an account, follow our SEO leaders and ask them to do some nice work for you. Some of them, you can see in the Cif2 Community page, without having to register for an account.
Use Cif2.net for SEO India and gain some peace for your mind.
The classic way of blogging is to go somewhere and get a blog. You change a theme. Now you feel like it reflects you as a person. Or that it reflects the idea you're trying to shape through your blog. After you change the theme, you post your first article. There would be so much to write on your subject, that it would take you years to get everything out. So you hardly sketch up a few thoughts, melt them into words and post those words in an article on your new blog.
You feel good about this. And that's that. That's the only result you get. The happy feeling that you've made "your own thing". You just leave it be afterwards.
I don't blog this way. Just like you, I used to blog by this classic way described above. And it did not help me too much. Plus, it was costy. Read about the costs here. Classic platforms say you get a Free Blog, but that's just a lie.
So when I'm asked: "How do you blog?", I usually say: "the Cif2.net way!". Yes, we've even started a Cause on Facebook that will help thousands of people get notticed by playing a game. Anyone can join in and either follow the development or contribute to the development of the game that gets you noticed.
Google X is responsible for some pretty nice things, among which is this car that drives itself. In the following clip you'll be able to see a blind man "driving". [...]
What do you think about this innovation? How do you think the future will be if cars drive themselves?
It seems that shy people find it much easier to enjoy a tea with a cat, when in a tea house. 79 Cat-Cafes have popped out in Japan over the last 5 years. Some might think this is turning into serious cat domination. What we do know is: there are kilograms of furry cuteness there.
If we go to Japan, we should seriously give this idea a try. You can read more about this idea right here.
We've been selected to present at the Balkan Venture Forum!
Cif2.net in Skopje, Macedonia!
Cif2.net has been selected to present at the event! The Balkan Venture Forum is a great conference for startups from the South Eastern Europe region. It has been our pleasure to see that we have been selected to present there.
"The Balkan Venture Forum is showcasing Balkans' best high-tech entrepreneurs to an audience of international venture capital and corporate investors." - from their site.
Cif2.net is all about innovation and it's also a change-maker. Our CEO is happy to go there and present the game that gets you noticed! Because this startup is changing the way people build websites and get their sites noticed. With Cif2.net you play the game that gets you noticed.
Will we see you there? If so, drop us a line at florinmuresan@cif2.net
Bring joy to your Facebook! We're serious about your social media. You get a lot of updates on your Home page on facebook and we get that. That is why we only post stuff that you will love to see. Something to bring a smile on your face, some food for thought and even a 180 degree turn-around if your day was going bad.
You can also view our Youtube Videos, with the How To Do a Blog series, podcasts from our CEO and there's a section that will show you why people Love Cif2.net
And as a bonus because you rock, after you like the page, you can browse down the whole timeline of Cif2.net and see our milestones, see when we started and what we did to build the Game that gets you noticed by building a website.
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