Jure Cuhalev

25 Sep, 2009

On Leaving Zemanta

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: everyday life

Bible writing machine

As you’ve probably heard, I’ve left my job as a community manager and UX expert at Zemanta. It has been an incredible ride these two years and I can say that I’m now fully sold at the idea of startup business lifestyle.

Last three months in San Francisco were a great finish of this adventure, giving me time to think and reflect on how I want to expand my professional career. I realized that lately I wasn’t doing much of the things I love most: product development in every form – from designing, user experience, coding and of course interacting with users once we can get it to them.

With this in mind, the decision was simple. It’s time to find the next startup that I can help or found a new one, using some of the prototypes and ideas that are floating around.

I don’t have any concrete plans as of yet, as I plan to first help some friends with their projects and clean my backlog of things that I volunteered for and never got a chance to get around to. There will also be a lot of running as I prepare for my half-marathon.

If you have an interesting project, lets talk. I can’t wait to see to which city and continent the future will take me.

16 Responses to "On Leaving Zemanta"

1 | gorgeoux

September 25th, 2009 at 12:22 pm

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You sure make it sound exciting :) Chris and I would love to buy you a coffee next time you’re in London.

2 | Chris Charabaruk

September 25th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

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I wish my Taskerrific had some funding so I could entice you to check out Canada.

4 | Jo Jordan

September 25th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

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We will miss you – a lot. Do tell us when you are next in London.

6 | mrbrdo

September 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

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Good luck:-)

7 | Marc A-J

September 25th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

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Good luck Jure – all the best
Marc

8 | Darren Waters

September 25th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

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All the best in the next venture.

9 | Nicolas Toper

September 25th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

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Come join us, we re hiring :)

10 | Andraz Tori

September 26th, 2009 at 2:54 am

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Jure, lots of luck with your future endeavours!

It was great working with you!

Andraz Tori, Zemanta

11 | Alex

September 26th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

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Good to see the creator in you wasn’t that easy to tame :)

Happy running! and if you’re ever in A’dam again: coffee + ideas are on me!

12 | John pereira

October 1st, 2009 at 10:12 am

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Please get in contact with me about some exciting research projects looking for start-up energy

13 | Tomasz

October 27th, 2009 at 8:19 am

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So, what are you planning to do now? Stay in the US or so? Also, a bit off-topic, could you tell me a bit more about the machine in the picture above? It looks mighty interesting.

Best regards

-Tomasz

14 | Jure Cuhalev

October 27th, 2009 at 11:23 am

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Actually I’m back in Slovenia. I’m working on a couple of personal projects while contributing to different open source and volunteer organizations. The plan is to learn even more new things during this period, while I’m looking for next “commercial” project.

15 | Ante

November 30th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

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Jure, why you have left Zemanta? You sold company (or your part) or boss fired you :) or…?

16 | Jure Cuhalev

December 1st, 2009 at 6:57 pm

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It was time to move on :)