I just read Brad's story from the time when he was an entrepreneur and was running Brad Technologies together with his partner. Great story, however it just stroke me that, besides the entrepreneurial lessons (vision and mission, team bonding, respect your customers, etc), ithere is more than that. The way they behave comes not from being entrepreneurs per se but from having a certain type of character that probably is also a result of education, family values and such. And of course those people are above-average individuals emerged from a certain environment or ecosystem (good school, great values, etc.) But, if I am to compare it to the Romanian peers - is it just me, or it is hard to find something like this around?

The Romanian ecosystem certainly has its unique labels and influences, but ever since I came back here 15 months ago, finding people thinking on a similar tune with me was the most difficult part. Now I consider myself just an ordinary guy, but whenever I am trying to play/preach the professionalism lesson ("be corporate" - I use to call it) with industry peers I get blank faces or people starring at me. In the best case scenarios they'd say: "yeah, it makes sense, but we just cannot do this here". Is it because of the people I meet or it comes from the ecosystem? Or perhaps I am just unlucky.