• Published:July 29th, 2008
• Comments:2 Comments
• Category:Awards, Video, Erepublik beta

Elevator Pitches is a video community project developed by TechCrunch that allows online entrepreneurs to pitch their startups to the general public in 60 seconds. A technology startup’s CEO or founder should use that time to explain the company’s products and how they are intended to make money. Once the video is posted posted, TechCrunch readers have the chance to comment and vote on the pitches they like the most or least.


Alexis took this opportunity to present Erepublik and cover the main points and gets the message across. After one month, the Erepublik pitch has the second highest ratio (141 ‘up’ vs 38 ‘down’ votes) out of 64 pitches.


Take a look at the presentation made by Alexis and if you like it, don’t forget to vote.

• Published:July 14th, 2008
• Comments:3 Comments
• Category:Erepublik beta

Today, on the 14th of July we’ve celebrated the national day of France and also the birthday of our geek dev member, Lucian ( the bald guy in the picture). He is now 23 years old and we gave him an Erepublik T-shirt and also some stickers… I cannot express in words how happy he was after unwrapping his present. Without the executives in the office, we manage to drink all the coke and ice-tea. Now lets get back to work!

• Published:July 12th, 2008
• Comments:2 Comments
• Category:Meetings, Erepublik beta

LIVE BLOGGING

We managed to meet the Erepublikans in Constanta a few minutes ago. I will do my best to describe the event in this post (local time).

18:00 - 10 people joined the meeting: Cristesco, George Lemnaru, Belea2008, Shoby, cryuf, petrica somalezu, danymith, shadow figure, RoLitoral and flory_zborostean

18:10 - after the first impressions shared, we started talking about v1

18:30 - the discussion about the future of eRomania started…. Romanians are about to attack… ooops… never mind

18:45 - first set of discussion ended. The next set of drinks will come soon and we will resume talking about v1 now

18:55 - near us, at 10 meters distance - there are some kids playing football on the beach… “keep it down guys, we are trying to talk about the country strategies here”

19:10 - A lot of feedback received about the Beta version.

19:20 - A few changes to the Media module are requested by the Erepublikans

19:30 - The Romanian president and George Lemnaru left the NON ALCOHOLIC drinks and started playing football… Lets go team… teach those 10 years old a football lesson

19:35 - Goooalll!

19:45 - Shared stickers with the ones who are not playing football on the beach

19:55 - The football team ( George) returned to the table…

20:10 - Third round of beer will come soon, good music and we are deciding on the football teams now

20:15 - The meeting paused and now … football!!! - my notebook battery is down so this could be it for today. See you later!

21:40 - Football is over… Shoby is like the god of football - a Ronaldihno between us.

21:45 - Now we will hav e dinner and after… party time!!! - Fatboy Slim concert

- Sorry for the quality of the pictures -

• Published:July 9th, 2008
• Comments:3 Comments
• Category:Internet, Erepublik beta

Erepublik.com has just reached the 9.700 rank in Alexa. With more that 24,000 daily visits, Erepublik maintained a steady traffic growth in the past months. And remember, we are still in Beta! The average time spend by an user on Erepublik is almost 13 minutes with 16 viewed page in average per visit.


Erepublik is also visited from more than 140 countries and the top 5 countries are: Spain, Romania, United States, Italy and Sweden.

• Published:June 17th, 2008
• Comments:6 Comments
• Category:Meetings, Erepublik beta

This weekend we had community meetings in two of the top 5 countries in Erepublik. Alexis was our representative member in Spain and me with Geo and Bogdan Adamut met with the Erepublikans in Romania on our monthly meeting. In Bucharest we broke all records with this event which lasted more than … 9 hours. Also in Madrid (see picture) several important Citizens could join, like Zhuge Lian. Meiko, Alyena, Charlie, Kane, vash and maeghith. They’ve talked about the next version of Erepublik (which will be an outstanding one) and Alexis received tremendous amount of feedback from them. Each one who could join this meeting received a “Citizen of The New World” T-shirt (available in online stores by the end of this year).

• Published:June 10th, 2008
• Comments:4 Comments
• Category:Video, Erepublik beta

Erepublik managed to raise the funds that will allow our team to grow and have the right resources to continue building and launch the next version later this year.

Also, the angels investors internet know-how will be a great help for us, as we will continue to make the Citizens experience in Erepublik better and better.

George and Alexis managed to announce this before we did, so all I have to do now is to link to them.

So, here is their video announcement (recorded yesterday at midnight) and for more details please visit our press page.

• Published:May 30th, 2008
• Comments:7 Comments
• Category:Job opportunities

Marketing Executive: Erepublik
Location : Spain – Central Madrid

We are looking for a young, dynamic and entrepreneurial marketer that wants to join an exciting start up to help coordinate the marketing operations of Erepublik.com (leWeb3.com best European start up of 2007 special Jury prize).

Position Summary
Successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and executing the operational side of marketing initiatives (online, offline and PR) for Erepublik.com. To do so he or she will have to collaborate with our various agencies and partners as well as our dev centre in
Bucharest.

Reporting
The successful candidate will report directly to the Erepublik.com CEO, Alexis Bonte a well know entrepreneur with extensive Internet experience: http://fon.gs/alexis

Responsibilities
- Erepublik.com: Help coordinate the marketing and PR effort to support the international launch of Erepublik. We will also expect the candidate to help in other areas of the company as required.

Requirements:

• Fluent Spanish and English. GWK of Portuguese, French, Romanian or any other language is a plus.
• At least 2 years operational experience in online marketing
• Passion for the web and willing to go beyond the call of duty
• College degree
• Basic design skills are a plus as well as blogging, vblogging and / or video editing experience.

Potential development:

• Erepublik.com is growing fast so there are good opportunities to grow with the company.

Applicant must be eligible to work in Spain.

To apply, please send us an updated CV to ncorral (at) erepublik (dot) com

• Published:May 26th, 2008
• Comments:No Comment
• Category:Meetings, Erepublik beta

In the past three months we have organized several meetings with Erepublik citizens from Romania, especially from Bucharest. We meet in the last Saturday of each month in a local pub. Everyone has a great time, they ask us (me and George) what great features will be in the next Erepublik version and we try to get as much feedback as possible from them. After this kind of discussions the main subject is about Romania in Erepublik. Defense strategies, political partnerships, economical agreements between company owners and so on. Here are photos from our previous meetings.
French Citizens from Erepublik took our example and they are organizing a meeting on May 29th, in Paris.

In what photo can you find three presidents siting toghether and enjoying a drink? From left to right: IMSilviu, Bogdan Adamutz, Cristeco (ex-President of Romania), Titu Maiorescu (ex-President of Romania), Alex Craciun ( President of Romania.

• Published:May 15th, 2008
• Comments:12 Comments
• Category:Meetings, Erepublik beta

Today all members of the Erepublik team went for a walk in a park. We also took this opportunity to take some pictures.

Here all the geeks of Erepublik from left to right:
Top:
Alexis and George L – Just like in the office, in the park also they were bossing us around.
Medium:
George P – The sun glare is so annoying.
Ileana – Look how happy she is because she had a 15 minutes break from all those bugs.
Alex L – Hey why do I have to be at the back?
Geo – Our banner supporter.
Cristi – The guy who wrote this silly post.
Alex S – He really sees everything in HTML code (even trees, grass).
Bogdan – I want to hug one of the trees.
Irina – What a look!
Bottom:
Andru – This is all very nice but I have V1 to deliver.
Silviu – Nice jeans!
Radu – Last time I took this pose I was 6 years old and holding a football.
Marius – Such a happy happy guy.
Gabi – That belly isn’t really his belly, thanks photoshop.

• Published:May 9th, 2008
• Comments:3 Comments
• Category:In the press, Erepublik beta

An article about Erepublik in one of the most read newspapers in Spain, El Pais was published these days. An interesting fact is that you can find quotes in the article from active users of Erepublik such as Meiko, the ex-president of eSpain and MGR the Commander of the eSpanish Army. Read the article here.