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biggest hackathon in the Balkans: $10,000 + we take one team to SF, all expenses paid.
@GarazaCommunity has been crushing it this year; our startups made it into @ycombinator, @a16z @speedrun and some went on to raise from top VCs, including Sequoia Capital.
tl;dr
→ 7-8 November, in person, in Belgrade
→ Teams from across the Balkans and SEE
→ Teams of 2–4, all members 26 or younger
→ No fixed challenge go frontier
→ $10,000 cash prize pool for the winners
→ One team gets a week in European Startup Embassy in SF
two things on this video:
1. def future of work in some way or form
2. this ride was so comforting in a way
this comes from one of the best mixes youtube.com/watch?v=mFZ7Rcx8…
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The greatest of all time is here to support the team as they kick off the new @EuroLeague season! 🐐❤️🤍
#kkcz #WeAreTheTeam
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Kada sam se preselio u SF, prvu normalnu kafu popio sam u kafiću koji se zvao Trst.
Ako mi je kafa na sekund vratila osećaj doma, "Trst je naš" na vratima WC-a zagrlio me je kao rođak iz tuđine i zacementirao ovo mesto kao jedno od onih kojima ću se rado vraćati.
Ispostaviće se da je u pitanju kultno mesto, u kome su sedeli neki od najznačajnijih kulturnih stvaralaca prošlog veka. Kopola, verovatno najpoznatiji među njima, upravo je u ovom kafiću radio na scenariju za Kuma.
Četrnaest godina kasnije saznajem da je Caffè Trieste pokrenuo imigrant, renesansni ribar iz Rovinja, koji je napustio Istru nakon njenog pripajanja Jugoslaviji.
Priča koja počinje imigracijom, radom u luci, pranjem prozora i pevanjem opere, a završava osnivanjem prvog espreso bara u San Francisku, esencijalno je američka. Ali, kao i mnoge priče iz tog perioda, govori i o tome kako se američki san etablirao u globalnoj kulturi.
Meni je, ipak, draža jedna druga stvar. Sledeći put kada budete gledali Kuma, setite se da se negde između stranica tog scenarija vešto krio i jedan mali pozdrav iz Rovinja. Pozdrav za koji nisam znao kada sam pre 14 godina prvi put ušao u kafe Trst.
if you are in north beach, make the stop at caffe trieste, the closest thing to time travel san francisco has.
in 1947, istria stopped being italy. the peninsula was handed to communist yugoslavia, italian homes were nationalized, and 300,000 italians packed up and left. giovanni giotta, a fisherman from rovigno, was one of them.
he ended up in san francisco - the one city in america where an italian fisherman wasn't a stranger. north beach spoke italian, the wharf was full of italian fishing boats, and saints peter and paul church took his family in.
later on giovanni washed windows for a living, and sang opera while he worked. they called him "the singing window washer." in 1956 he opened caffe trieste, named for the port city of the coast he'd lost. it was the first espresso bar on the west coast. their jukebox still plays opera, and they still accept cash only.
then the world came to him. coppola wrote the godfather at the back table. kerouac, ginsberg, ferlinghetti were regulars. every saturday since 1971 the family hosts a free three-hour concert. the nobel poet joseph brodsky wrote about it: "nothing has changed here. neither the furniture nor the weather." 70 years on, that was always the point.
trieste on 35mm, i've shot last year:
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Alright apparently people want SF Chinese food takes lol so here goes the long list:
S Tier
Four Kings ($$) – absolute goat right now with S tier service too
J & X Bistro ($$) – new and underrated more trad spot
A Tier
Yuanbao jiaozi ($) – beef noodle soup is better than the dumplings
Palette teahouse ($$) – upscale dragon beaux / koi palace
Hon's Wun-Tun House sunset location ($) – new location has expanded menu of trad canto fare
Mr Jiu’s ($$$) – was great, fell off a bit. still good!
B Tier
Z&Y ($) – best sichuan
Oodle Noodle ($) – good and fun rice noodles. uncommon here
Noodle Panda ($) – it’s just fine as far as hand pulled noodles go, but they’re the only ones who do it in the city!
Overrated spots i'd avoid
China Live ($$) – just terribly mid white food media darling
San Tung ($) – respect og status, but no reason to go here anymore.
Happy Crane ($$) – can’t take them seriously when the chinese character of their logo is mangled af
Empress by Boon ($$$) – only reason to come here is to entertain clients
Any two word dumpling restaurant ($) – some are dece but the whole category is cursed
In general, SF chinese food is not that good! but having lived here 10 years, these are our go-tos! Not counting spots outside of SF. I know the scene is better in south and east bay, but can’t always go out of the city!
Also, inb4 “who are you to...” 老子在三番的美食沙漠熬了十年总的有有点发言权了吧
Also, everyone I trust says Fu Hui Hua is excellent,but I haven’t been yet!
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Roddick on people telling Djokovic to retire: Shut up
“I know there’s going to be an article tomorrow somewhere where some jackass is going to say, ‘He should stop’. Shut up, he’s so much better than you currently than you will ever be at your job. That’s ridiculous.” ✔️
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Places to drink and dance in SF!
Bars:
Butter
Balboa Cafe
Persona
Harper & Rye
Bar Darling
Jaxon
The Devils Acre
Last Rites
Smugglers Cove
Tonga Room
Cold Drinks Bar
Li Po Lounge
Novela
Key Club
True Laurel (hard to walk in)
Clubs/Dancing:
Long Weekend
Bar Part Time
Monroe’s (crowd will be younger)
Raven Bar
Rick & Roxy’s
Madarae
Temple
DNA Lounge
Hawthorne
The Valencia Room
Westwood
White Rabbit
Wine bars:
Amalie
Arcana
Bodega
Roaming Goat
Union Larder
Bar Gemini
Etcetera
Speakeasies:
The Pawn Shop (bring something to trade for entry!)
Blind Pig (need password from insta)
Bourbon & Branch
Local Edition
Lore
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My first introductions to Naruto were through those summer 2005 Toonami promos voiced by Peter Cullen. RIP legend.
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Coming out of stealth today, I’m building Sugar (@usesugar) which solves fintech’s biggest pain point: liquidity for pre-funding and reserves.
Fintech’s biggest secret is: in order for customers to move money, the fintech they use needs to pre-fund payments so that their payments go through.
Sugar solves that pain by providing liquidity in an API, or as a line of credit in USD, USDC, USDT.
Some popular cases we help solve in fiat and stables:
- Pre funding payments on/off chain
- Collateral requirements and escrow
- Sponsor bank requirements
- Credit reserves
The problem:
While most SMB segments are well served for credit, fintechs are deeply underserved as there isn’t a credit product designed for fintech’s pre-funding and reserve capital needs, because they did not exist at this scale until a few years ago.
Sugar helps finance those fintechs so that they can scale their payments or credit business, while diluting less and not having to face delays in growth or interruptions of service.
Sugar doesn’t require you to change your payment processor, bank sponsor, payout provider, or on/off ramp infrastructure.
We want to unlock your liquidity to help increase scale.
How do we do it: volume based underwriting.
We’ve pioneered what we call Volume Based Underwriting, where we underwrite fintechs based on their volumes enabling us to understand a fintech’s growth, volatility, and fraud in order to offer them liquidity.
Why now.
Fintech's first two waves.
- Wave one moved banking online through mobile and desktop apps, digital KYC, and payments. The neobanks launching in 2026 still do the same.
- Wave two is payments plus credit. Neobanks have to differentiate, and credit is how the hundreds launching today will win customers.
- All of them will need liquidity for pre-funding, reserves, collateral, and warehouse lending.
We want to be that lender.
Our master plan:
- Customer experience: Make getting liquidity an easy experience for fintechs. Who provides the best experience wins.
- Cost of capital: Develop a loan book and re-finance with each balance sheet milestone with lower cost lenders, from banks, M&A, and DeFi. The lowest cost of capital wins.
- Going vertical: Launch verticals that compliment and strengthen the core credit thesis. Rinse and repeat.
If you’re a fintech founder, CFO, or someone in finance and you’re looking to solve your pre-funding or reserve needs, send me a DM.
Thanks to the team at @WhiteStarCap and @alliance for supporting us early in our journey.
PS,
For friends that knew of us before today, we are rebranding away from Superbank.
