Let's begin.

Well, first of all let me introduce myself.

I'm Egor Lavrov, 27, was born in Moscow, Russia. I'm quite famous among russian IT crowd due to several projects I had. I never got to learn english very well, so I'm sorry about it, I hope it is quite understandable. :-)

When I was 16 I've managed to convince my parents to invest US$30,000 into my business plan and I came up with the first printed magazine about the Internet in Russia. It was called "Planet Internet". It was not very popular, because not too many people knew about the Internet yet, so I had difficulties in finding advertisers.

I had to give ads almost for free or in exchange for favors to different companies in Russia and the only real customers I had was Internet Service Providers. So once I met with the owner of one of them, who also used to be a young Russian banker. That was a time of almost no regulations in Russian financial sector, so being a banker back then was something similar to being a gangster, lot's of easy money and short lives.

So this guy offered me good money to sell him the business and I accepted the offer. This is how I got my first serious profit in my life. :-)

Later I created a scandalous alternative project in Russian Internet called as simple as "fuck.ru", but it had nothing to do with porn. It was a first place in Russia where anyone can write anything, without any censorship what's so ever. It became extremely popular really quick.

I even created new form of Russian slang and sub-culture there that still exists and develops, but I don't participate in it anymore and most of the new generation Internet users in Russia don't even know that I was the one who came up with an idea of such sub-culture.

I had to shut down this website once I was hired by one of the presidential candidate to run his campaign in Russia. I also had several threats to shut it down from people who were saying they are from Russian cyber police, but it's not clear for me if it was really a police or just someone jealous to my success. I'm not even sure that cyber police existed in Russia back then.

Apart from running a campaign I opened up the biggest portal in Russian Internet that was called "obozrenie.ru" (means review in russian).  Website was designed by famous Art Lebedev designer, the guy who is now know for the first OLED keyboard.

I was also making annual "internet" parties for the IT crowd in Russia and thanks to me most of this people met in person for the first time. Now most of them are running huge internet companies and are not the same nerds that were there on that party many years ago...

I didn't have other online projects other then a couple of blogs in russian. My blogs are in TOP20 of all blogs in Russia, unfortunately I can't write in english the same way I do it in russian, because I don't know the language on the same level, it's not my native language, so my texts in english are less interesting to read. :-(

My wife is Dominican. We setup business with her to distribute Apple, Bang & Olufsen and Vertu in this Latin American region. Business goes quite well, you can read about it in the article that was published recently in "100 Thousand Club" magazine. I set it up, but it is basically managed by my wife, so I felt a little bit depressed and bored past year, so that's one of the reasons I decided to start the "tattoolizator.com" project, but I will tell you about it in next post here.

Thank you for coming!