Scimus

Business Development Manager

My day-to-day tasks were: 
- researching industry trends, competitors, and market conditions to stay informed and adapt sales strategies accordingly
- establish, develop and maintain positive customer relationships
- develop and maintain outreach sales processes for LinkedIn, Mail and Upwork
- identifying customers' needs

My learning points:
- failures help you to think out-of-the-box
- persistence is a key
- first - listen, second - help (not sell)

Growth Manager

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• Conducting research and analyzing the business performance of business partners and fulfilling customers’ needs.
• Create, plan, and deliver presentations on company products.
• Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships.
• Coordinate with other team members and departments to optimize processes.

Sales Development Specialist

AIESEC

Leading 6 Team Leaders with regular O2Os (40+), department meetings (60 in general), MoSs & KPIs setting and tracking, membership onboarding
Servicing customers before and during their experiences and providing needed standards of quality(improved conversion of quality from 85% to 91%)
Updated servicing flow which helped to get more interaction with customers
Synergy within Sales and Customer Service teams
Sales strategy creation and execution

Head of Customer Experience and Sales

Key responsibilities:
Leading a team of 2 people
Conducting calls and meetings with current accounts(conversion from call to meeting improved from 10.7% to 16.5%)
Generation of leads and market segmentation(93 new leads)
Sales strategy plan execution

Key achievements:
New Sales - 3 new companies
Account management - 5 accounts
Access to the new region

Sales Manager

Business Development Manager at Scimus | Helping businesses to go from Good to Great through automation

Hey! I’m Nelia, your Business Development Manager from Scimus, where I'm dedicated to transforming businesses from good to great through innovative automation solutions. 

With a background in sales, project management, and strategic thinking, I'm swimming in environments that demand creativity and adaptability.

At Scimus, my role involves understanding the market needs, fostering customer relationships, and developing effective sales strategies. Over my 3 years in sales, my experience has honed my skills in identifying customer needs and tailoring solutions that align with their objectives.

I’m always open to discussing how me and Scimus can assist in your business's growth journey. Let’s connect and explore how we can take your business to the next level.

nelia.kaminska@thescimus.com

Nelia Kaminska

Cosmin Rusu

Transforming Visions into AI MVPs & Products | Founder @Duty Ventures | Ex {Google, Apple and Amazon}

Hi, I’m Cosmin, the Founder and Lead Engineer of Duty Ventures. 

After some experience as a software developer in companies such as Google, Apple, and Amazon, I decided to launch my project.

With several former colleagues and college friends, we launched our own startup specializing in software development for entrepreneurs and customers needing software development services. 

Duty Ventures is all about developing software products from start to finish, thanks to the experiences we have all acquired in the past years.

One of our most successful services is aimed at entrepreneurs and early-stage founders, for whom we provide an MVP-builder service getting their product from 0 to 1 within weeks!

However, our services are not limited to that. The teams we create do much more than just create MVPs and are able to adapt to the different technologies requested, all of this in an agile way.

Our most recurrent services are the following:
- MVP creation
- Custom Software Development
- Blockchain Development
- Mobile Development
- Checkout pages
- E-Commerce

And our most used technologies are:
- Ruby on Rails
- React
- React Native
- Java
- NodeJS


If you want to learn more about how we can help you, head over to: https://dutyventures.com


Phone: (+1) 669 200 9568 / (+40) 754 973 314
Email: cosmin@dutyventures.com

Founder & Lead software engineer

I'm leading a software development agency focused on fast iterations. Most of our clients are shipping more features, responding faster to support tickets, and have accelerated growth because of us.

We focused on HealthCare a lot lately due to the accelerated digitalization in this industry. I am a strong believer that we can make healthcare more technically advanced via pure software. 

In terms of technologies, our previous projects involved Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, Scala, Java, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS (ECS, RDS, AKS), Stripe Connect, HIPAA compliance.

Some of our previous clients: 
- Spotify
- Colgate
- Go4Ellis (incl. HIPAA compliance)
- KindBody (+1 HIPAA)
- NXT Sports
- Noom (Healthcare)
- Mochila Fulfillment
- 3Step
- Mylk Guys (YCombinator)
- NLV Productions
- SH Technologies
- One Step Software (Techstars)
- Ergodic Labs
- Med Prep
- Testing Psych
- Abundance Digital
- Tookitaki

We just made a new hire. He doesn't have a proper name yet.

But he's already doing the work nobody wants to do: checking deadlines, scanning GitHub, pinging developers for updates, asking why that feature took 3x longer than expected, and giving our clients a clear picture of what's happening in their projects.

Basically, he runs Software Delivery ops for us.

The catch? He's not human. He's an AI agent.

And honestly, he's more consistent than most project managers I've worked with. No ego, no missed standups, no "I forgot to update the ticket."

If this works out (and so far it is), we're bringing in a few of his friends. He says he knows some agents who do marketing and business development.

I'll keep you posted on how the team grows.

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AI-forward engineers. Embedded fast. Delivering from day one. | Founder @Duty Ventures | Ex {Google, Apple and Amazon}

Anthropic just played the smartest marketing move in AI.

While OpenAI announced ads are coming to ChatGPT, Anthropic did the opposite - they ran a Super Bowl ad saying Claude will stay ad-free.

But that's not even the best part.

They started sponsoring Google search results for developer error messages and stack traces that return zero results.

Think about it: you're debugging at 2 AM, you paste an error into Google, nothing comes up - and right there is Claude offering to help.

That's not advertising. That's solving a real problem at the exact moment of frustration.

The marketing lesson here is massive:

Don't interrupt people. Show up where they already need you.

Most companies spend millions trying to grab attention from people who don't care. Anthropic spent it reaching developers at their most desperate moment - when no other solution exists.

This is the difference between push marketing and pull marketing done right.

What's the smartest developer-targeted ad you've seen?

Cosmin Ionut

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I didn't expect an AI to actually surprise me.

But Claude AI did.

Here's the thing. Most AI tools look good on paper, but break down fast when you push them. Claude is different. Not perfect, but actually useful. And that's rare.

I tried running complex code reviews, drafting technical architecture docs, even brainstorming product names. Tasks that suck hours from any founder or engineer. Claude cut through the mess.

What's different? It understands not just syntax, but context. It connects the dots. I threw it a messy requirements doc. Got back actionable user stories, tech stack suggestions, and edge case checks that would have taken my team half a day.

I used it to write test cases for a React component. Spotted bugs I'd missed. It's not replacing anyone on my team, but it's like running with an extra brain at the table.

You can call it "just a tool." Fine. But founders ignoring this are already falling behind. Speed matters.

Building an MVP? You can go from idea to working prototype in days, not weeks. Reviewing code or writing docs at 11pm? No longer a lonely job.

The ones who win aren't the ones afraid of AI. It's those who ask, What can this thing do for me?

Or better: What can I do now, that I couldn't do before?

WordPress is dead? That's wishful thinking from the new tool crowd.

Every week, someone claims WordPress is outdated. Meanwhile, I keep seeing founders and companies waste time on custom stacks or fancy page builders that sound innovative but end up costing more and breaking the basics.

Here's the reality nobody wants to admit: WordPress is, hands down, still one of the best options for landing pages and presentation sites.

Why? 

Setup takes minutes, not days. Anyone can manage content. No dev required. The UI is simple enough your intern or your grandma can update a headline.

The plugin ecosystem is a cheat code. Want to add forms, analytics, booking, e-commerce, CRM, SEO, or pretty much anything else? It's a few clicks away. Most alternatives don't even come close, or require you to glue together five different SaaS subscriptions.

SEO is baked in, not bolted on. Out of the box, you're ahead of most custom sites. Add Yoast or RankMath and you're miles ahead of the average "modern" landing page slapped together in Webflow or some VC-backed platform.

Cost is the final killer feature. You can launch a polished, fast, SEO-friendly site for pocket change. No designer or developer on retainer. No recurring fees that balloon over time.

The dirty secret: Most people don't need a custom stack or a shiny new no-code platform. They need something that works, right now, and keeps working for years.

WordPress still delivers. Ignore the hype.

Stop paying for ngrok. There's a better alternative.

Meet zrok - an open-source tunneling tool built on zero-trust networking principles.

Why I switched:

1. Free subdomains - no paying for stable URLs
2. Open source - self-host it or use their free SaaS tier
3. Built on OpenZiti - actual zero-trust security, not just marketing buzzwords
4. Supports public AND private shares
5. Auto HTTPS/TLS out of the box
6. Custom domains supported

If you're a developer who regularly needs to expose local services (demos, webhooks, testing) - ngrok's free tier feels increasingly restrictive.

zrok gives you what you actually need without hitting a paywall every 5 minutes.

The setup is straightforward. The docs are solid. And because it's open source, you can inspect every line of code handling your traffic.

In a world where we're tunneling more and more traffic for dev and testing, having a free and secure option matters.

Check it out:

Open article: Home - zrok by NetFoundry by zrok.io

Hot take on vibe coding:

If frontend is mostly about calling APIs, and those APIs should be secure by default - does vibe coding make the most sense on the frontend?

Think about it. The frontend is essentially a curl wrapper. A UI layer. Less security risk.

Here's where I think things are heading:

Senior engineers will migrate towards building secure backends. Modular, composable backend "components" that can easily interact with each other.

Open-source microservices you can plug and play.

Need auth? Spin up your own Auth0-like instance. Need user-generated content? Spin up a UGC microservice - posts, comments, likes, replies, threads. The same patterns we use on LinkedIn, Facebook, X.

You reuse what exists. Then you generate your own microservice for what's specific to your product.

And once you become big enough? You open source it.

The frontend becomes the place where AI can truly shine - generating UIs, connecting to secure APIs, iterating on design fast.

The backend stays the domain of engineers who understand security, data, and system design.

Vibe coding isn't replacing developers. It's splitting the role in two.

A friend of mine had his first meeting with a potential client in Germany.

He didn't prepare a pitch deck. Didn't try to "understand the project." Didn't walk through his company's services.

Instead, he asked one question:

"If I fly from Romania to Germany on Friday, can we meet face to face?"

They said yes instantly.

That was 5 years ago. They're still working together.

Here's what most agencies get wrong: they lead with capabilities. "We do React, we do mobile, we do cloud."

Nobody cares.

What founders actually want to know is: will this person show up when it matters?

The best business relationships I've seen didn't start with a scope of work. They started with someone proving they gave a damn before the contract was signed.

If you're choosing between a partner with a perfect proposal and one who'll get on a plane for you — pick the plane.

I run a tech company.

And I just updated my MacOS for the first time in 2 years.

Here's my confession:

I'm not an early adopter.

Never have been. Never will be.

While everyone rushes to install the latest update on day one, I wait.

Why?

Because I've learned something painful:

Being first doesn't mean being smart.

Every major OS update comes with:
→ Broken apps
→ Battery drain issues
→ Compatibility nightmares
→ Hours of troubleshooting

My team can't afford that downtime.

Neither can yours.

The best founders I know share this trait:

They separate "exciting" from "essential."

New and shiny != Better for business.

I'll let others beta test with their productivity.

I'll upgrade when it's stable.

Call it boring. Call it cautious.

I call it protecting what matters.

This is the future! 🧑‍💻 + 💻👾💻👾💻👾 = 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

We were used to 10x engineers - now we'll likely see a lot of 20x engineers building 20x companies in a few months. Suddenly, whenever you have an idea, you don't need to spend a lot of time building it, then selling it... You can jump straight into selling it while the AI agents are busy building the product, improving it based on user feedback, and implementing all the custom features that a client needs - it's really mind-blowing...

Product-minded Devs | Founder @Duty Ventures | Ex {Google, Apple and Amazon}

I closed the loop.

I now have a full AI dev pipeline running end-to-end:

→ Claude Code: ideates features + writes exact specs
→ Linear: receives those specs automatically (clean, structured tickets)
→ Me: reviews and prioritizes inside Linear
→ Cursor Agent: implements the ticket and pushes code to GitHub
→ Cubic.dev + Qodo.ai + custom Claude Code PR Reviewer: review the PRs before merge

No chaos.
No “AI wrote it so ship it.”
No regressions flying under the radar.

Just a system that turns:
idea → spec → execution → review

This isn’t “one AI tool”.

It’s an orchestra of AIs.
And I’m the maestro.

Want to see exactly how I run it?

Comment DEV and I’ll send you a walkthrough of my dev process.

(We have to be connected)

Heroku just entered "maintenance mode."

Except this time, it's not your app - it's the entire platform.

Salesforce announced Heroku is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model." Translation: no new features, no new enterprise contracts, just keeping the lights on.

If you've been a developer long enough, you know what this means. Standing still in tech is the same as moving backward.

Here's the thing though - Heroku's ideas won.

Every git push deploy. Every platform that "just works." Vercel, Render, Railway, Fly - they all carry Heroku's DNA.

The lesson for anyone building software products:

Your product can pioneer a category and still lose if the parent company stops investing. Innovation without sustained commitment is just a head start for your competitors.

If you're still running on Heroku - your apps are fine for now. But start planning your next move.

The platform that taught us what great developer experience looks like deserved better stewardship.

For years, I thought the best way to create more value for clients was to charge less.

Lower rate = more value for their money. Simple math, right?

Wrong.

Here's what actually happened when I charged less:

→ Clients treated the work as disposable
→ My team felt undervalued, so they gave B-level effort
→ I attracted price-shoppers who churned the fastest
→ We couldn't invest in better processes, tooling, or talent

The moment I started charging what the work was actually worth, everything changed.

Clients were more engaged. More committed. More respectful of timelines.

My team felt ownership because the stakes matched the effort.

And the clients who stayed? They became long-term partners, not one-off projects.

If you're a founder evaluating dev partners and your main filter is "who's cheapest" — you're optimizing for the wrong thing.

The most expensive mistake isn't paying too much. It's paying too little for a team that doesn't care enough to get it right.

Palantir is no longer just “another AI stock”, but the perfect example of how technology, geopolitics, and investor greed intersect in 2026.

In a world where stock markets are two steps away from all-time highs and everyone is hunting for “the next Nvidia”, Palantir has just reported its best results of the last decade: 25 cents per share and 1.3 billion USD in quarterly revenues, with the stock up 11% on the day.
More interesting than the numbers, however, is Alex Karp’s message: “the results are pure and unmanipulated” – a sentence that says more about the fear in the market than about investor peace of mind.

Palantir is growing in a very uncomfortable place: at the intersection of government money, security, and near-total surveillance. Around 500 million of its quarterly revenues come directly from the state – military, agencies, ICE – in a context where “more geopolitical chaos” paradoxically means “more Palantir”.
If it manages to replicate this model in as many governments as possible, a single man (Peter Thiel) could end up knowing in real time what millions of people are doing, from their taxes to their personal lives.

At the same time, we see a familiar pattern: investors are selling the healthy winners and buying “the rest”, exactly as happened in crypto – Bitcoin stayed high, but many altcoins disappeared or crashed from hundreds of dollars to just a few.
The AI boom is starting to look more and more like a desperate race “not to miss the train”: companies over-investing, CEOs justifying spending with “paper money”, and a market that hopes the story will last long enough.

In conclusion, this feels like the essence of this moment: Palantir wins if the world becomes more chaotic, because it is the company that promises to bring order and to say “who is good and who is bad”.
The question for us, as investors and as people working in technology, is not just “how much more can Palantir grow?”, but “how comfortable are we with a future where AI becomes the moral, economic, and geopolitical arbiter?”

Funny how much attention still goes to glossy web design.

You'd think every important detail in your product boils down to some Pantone color code or hero graphic above the fold.

I know founders who obsess about the shade of a PNG, but haven't checked if their signup actually works.

It takes five seconds to make a slick mockup. Less to copy a homepage from any trendy open-source kit. 

Looks impressive in a deck. Zero use in production with half-baked onboarding and buggy forms.

Ugly websites can be clunky and dodgy. Seen plenty. Usually e-commerce scams or legacy hospital portals.

But there’s this myth in tech circles: appearances trump everything under the hood.

Ask someone burned by conversion dropoffs from a UI update how useful design awards feel at 2am cleaning up a backend meltdown.

People cheat metrics chasing aesthetics.

The peak irony? More leads bounce because of slow loading times, dead links, or convoluted account flows than mediocre typography. Anyone checking real funnel metrics gets this.

Solid products keep the real unspectacular gears *moving authorization, payments, workflows*. Peace of mind in operation mode beats pretty-color dopamine hits.

Seen too many falling for shimmer over function.

Distraction never fixes fundamentals.

AI made me do it! Built in ~15 minutes 🤯

This is scary: GeoSpy AI tracks your exact location from a social media photo in 2 seconds.

The process can't be simpler:

1. Upload any photo.
2. Get precise GPS coordinates.
3. Displayed in 3D Street View

No metadata needed. No EXIF data. Just pixels.

You can track down the location using ChatGPT too.
But GeoSpy takes it 10 steps further:

☑ It reads architecture, vegetation & lighting.
☑ It narrows from country → city → street in secs.
☑ The advanced model claims ~1-meter accuracy.

We are entering a new era of visual surveillance:

☑ A selfie can expose your exact home address.
☑ AI analyzes pixels you didn't know carried cues.
☑ Street-level 3D accuracy. In under 2 minutes.

Think twice before posting a "casual" photo.

Amazon just sent me an email recommending stuff I didn't even know I needed yet.

I have Alexa integrated into my smart home setup. They basically know every device I own. So when they email me with a product recommendation, it's weirdly accurate.

This is signal-based selling in its purest form. And the best part? It works. I ordered the thing within 2 minutes.

Here's what most people miss about this: it's not about having the cheapest price. A lot of times, simplicity and peace of mind beats the cheapest offer on the market.

I would gladly pay a bit extra just to hit that "Buy Now" button on Amazon. Because what's the alternative? Find something cheaper on a random website, create a new account, add my credit card, fill in the delivery address, billing address, come up with a strong password?

No thanks. I'll pay the Amazon tax.

If you're a founder thinking about retention and conversion, this is the lesson: make buying from you so easy that going elsewhere feels like work.

Marc Andreessen on how to get people to join your 3-person startup:

You have exactly 2 tools - stock options and vision.

Stock options they'll tell you aren't worth anything. So it really comes down to vision.

The best founders can explain how the world is going to look in a way that's so compelling, people leave Google and Microsoft to build it with them.

It's essentially sales. Selling to employees.

But here's the part most founders miss:

Hiring is also a self-selection process. The best companies are polarizing on purpose. They give a stark picture of what they are and what they aren't.

"We work 18-hour days - if that's not you, don't come."
"We go home at 5 every day - if that frustrates you, don't come."
"We do yoga as a company - if that's weird to you, don't come."

The founders who try to be everything to everyone end up hiring people who leave in 3 months.

The ones who are radically honest about their culture? They attract true believers.

Running a staff augmentation agency, I see this daily. The clients who know exactly what culture they're building find the right talent 10x faster.

Someone replicated Monday.com's core features in 60 minutes using AI.

Cost: $15.

Monday's stock took a hit. People panicked.

But here's the thing nobody's talking about:

Code has been getting cheaper for 20 years. AI just made the trend impossible to ignore.

If your entire business defensibility is "we built an app," you were already vulnerable. AI just made it obvious.

The real moat was never the code. It's:

→ Deep understanding of a specific customer problem
→ Product decisions that reflect real usage, not assumptions
→ An architecture that actually scales when users show up
→ A team that iterates based on data, not vibes

I see founders still spending months planning features that an AI tool could scaffold in an afternoon. And I see Silicon Valley founders shipping AI-generated MVPs that fall apart the moment real users touch them.

Both are missing the point.

The winners will be the ones who combine fast tooling with sharp product thinking.

Code is a commodity. Product judgment is not.

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