Victor Balasa

Victor is a writer for Hongkiat.com. He has a blog at victorstuff.com and is currently involved in his latest startup, Redraw.io, a web-based automation platform for creating, publishing and analyzing mobile apps.

Latest posts

20 Design Tools for Startups on Budget

In the beginning, there was you and your laptop. As entrepreneurs, we’ve all been there – nurturing a larger-than-life vision of what our app/prod…

20+ Highly Addictive Mobile Games to Try

Every day we wake up to a gamescape that’s teeming with new entries, which makes that perfect-match game more and more elusive. If you haven’t tri…

How to Deal With Failing In Your First Startup Business

So you’ve decided to finally apply the advice you keep hearing and reading about. You’re determined to build your own business. No more freelancin…

Facebook Hashtags – How It Works, How to Use It Right

Here’s a weird story for you. Say you’re an innovator, a UX designer for Google+, you sit on the boards of various Web Foundations and often spend…

Practical Tips to Cure a Creative Block

Working as a freelance designer, writer, video editor is hard. There’s usually no support — it’s a lonely road. The most annoying thing about do…

Why Freelancers Are Saving The Internet

The freelancer is the job archetype for the new millennium. Much like artists were to the Renaissance and engineers to the mechanical revolution, the …

7 Tips For A Successful Crowdfunding Project

Learn the secrets to running a successful crowdfunding campaign with these tips and tricks. Boost your chances of reaching your funding goals.

Why Business Plans Don’t Work For Entrepreneurs

Every great entrepreneur is, at heart, a man of action. In his mind, he sees himself to be like Superman or Iron Man, making him pretty blind to your …

8 Ways to Launch A Startup

These are great times to work as a freelancer. The freelancing industry is catching on like wildfire, with more and more money being poured into the m…

Historic Freelancers Who Changed The World, Vol. 2

We’ve already talked about the likes of Ray Kroc, Walt Disney, Alfred Nobel, Ernest Hemmingway, and Charles Dickens and how they were some of the hi…

Historic Freelancers Who Changed The World, Vol. 1

Freelancing is just a word used to describe a state of mind, a state of independence and responsibility for oneself. It requires the same skills and s…

7 Principles Every Startup Entrepreneur Should Follow

Are you a real entrepreneur? Everybody dreams of being an entrepreneur, owning a successful business, working on their own terms and not having to ans…