Thread: Intro and some story from Poland

Hello everyone,


My name is Andrew and I am from Poland (Europe).


My biggest dream is to move to San Jose CA, because I have similar problem as MJ. I need warm place to live, and I need sun. I do not like winters in my country when everything is frozen and there is no sun. So it is my main goal - I need visa to USA and I figured it out I can get it in 3 ways:
- I can get green card in visa lotery - which I participated, but results will be known in May 2012
- I have to get to Stanford MBA studies - to get students visa
- I have to have 1 million of dollars - to get investors visa
For sure I will get visa somehow, because I want to be part of Silicon Valley. I am computer science hothead, and I have big willingness to make millions in IT industry, and I know I am enough talented to make that dream live.


But at the beggining I want to tell my little story:


My young part of life was not always good. I think maybe because of the weather. I hated school, teachers always was saying: I am smart but lazy. But always my intuition was saying me: I will be rich, and my life will be very different, and that I will drive Lambo some day, not only look at that in the movies, like others. But that was only feeling all the time, I didn't do much to get that dream. When I was 17 I started partying, very much. My brain was toxicated very often by that time.
Because of that at 20 I didn't get to the best CS (because I didn't mentioned - when I was 14 I fell in love in computers) school in my town which is Poznan University of Technology. I went to some worse collage, which didn't teach me much. I wasn't interested in getting knowledge. I wanted only diploma, because I thought I will have good job with good salary thanks to that. I didn't know what I want to do in life. I get job where I was "working" from 7am to 3pm, but I was working for 20 minutes every 3 days max. I had my office, big palm there which obscured me when I was slepping and when someone get in to the office didn't see that. Remaining time I was in the internet and search for women… After dates I was with my best friends and I was intoxicated all evening everyday. That was my sad life.
I thought I lost my life, I ended some crappy school, I have boring job, every day I am on drugs, and searching for happiness in ladies beds… I didn't want live any more.


But in some easter day I found myself in the church somehow, where I wasn't for many many years. I realized my life is full of sins, thats why I'm unhappy. And promised to God my life will be based on Bible and 10 commandments, because I realized that is only way to achieve happiness.


And fortunately in some evening, when I was sitting with my mates in the fumes of weed (because in that early days I thought weed is not a bad thing) I realized that is not the end of my life, I am 25 and I have all my life before me, I can do whatever I want. I promised to myself I will go to bed only with my future wife. Immediately I sold everything, and snatched the whole full of drugs environment, and went to London with intention to work for 6 months, save as much money as I can, get back, and go to my dreamed University. And I did that. First days I was working on car wash for 11 hours a day, when I didn't have time even for food. Non-stop cars. Next I get better paid job in big fridge where I was packing fishes for 12 hours a day, after wchich I went to gym and trained almost everyday, because I am passionate bodybuilder too, and I couldnt live without trainings. But after some time I get job, where I was mounting high end car-audio stuff which is my passion. There was the place, where I was siitting in Ferrari for the first time. That was good job because owner of that firm was simply the angel. Very good man, and it was pleasure to work for him.

In that time I founded out some grants grom Europenian Union for starting business, so I tried and get this grant. I was also very passionate about mobile device programming, and I started learnning J2ME, but in that time iPhone was appeared. Immadietaly I fell in love in that. I started do apps for that, but my problem was, I was always kind of perfectionist. I started 2 big project, one was 3d race game. Second was some stuff for trainings, which I was doing with my studies mate, but after some time he resigned, because he wanted to 100% focus on his other startup. That project was big, and I lost my energy on doin it by myself only. I had no money, and lack of energy. What I only had was willingness to get as much knowledge from mu CS studies as I could. But I had no money, and my projects was in very alpha mode, and realized I need some web-app knowledge to get this training app done. So I founded job as PHP Symfony programmer to get this knowledge, and get some money, I was working there for 5 months. Yesterday I quited, because I knew I need more time of my business things, and I learned enough. I also saved a lot of money at that time. And what is more important I founded out some better ideas for business there. Quitting that job was not so easy for me, because, there was really good atmosphere, and peaple was great. I miss them. And some might say I am stupid, I had big salary, good job… but I was listening to my intuition. I simply need more time to make my dreams come true, and somehow know that path is better.

Now I starting my graduate studies, and starting the iOS scientific circle in the university where I want to collect the most talented programmers, and do the contracts for Silicon Valley and my own projects with them. This Silicon Valley contracts is one of my options, that might be good to fund my startups. Because what I have is very high programming level in my country, especially at my best of the country University of Technology (Polish teams win most of the world coding contests), and what is more important, salary in here is at very low level in comparison to US salaries. That is why I hope I can get this deals.

Except that I have some big business startup idea and I am trying to interest some VCs in that, because I know I need a team of different skills programmers, which I have, but I need money for them. I'm after e-mail my idea to the first VC (where I had very limited space for description), and they reply, that they does not believe in need that I want to solve, but they invited me for the meeting to put more arguments on it. I am trying get Europenian Union 200 000 € grant also. I am gonna attack even California VC's with it. That is big business, which will make even hundreds of millions a year if everything will go good. And I believe it will.
Even when getting money on it will spend some time I will work on some different small mobile app project, which will make about few millions a year.

I do not know why, but i have a problem with posting the rest of the story, only short sentence passes. Otherwise is blank screen and nothing else when I am trying to submit. Chrome gives me Error HTTP 403 (Forbidden)

Nice story im in similar sutiation at the moment