International Entrepreneurs

This month I had a chat with Nadiia Dvoinos, co-founder and managing partner at Q28. Nadiia spends her time between Kiev and Dubai and is just the right person to give us some intel on how to market effectively in an era of short attention spams! Click play.

How much should a founder pay themselves? That's the big question that I'll be ending the year with, here on International Entrepreneurs. Click play!

This month I chatted to Dasha Runic, a Serbian entrepreneur who completed her studies across different continents and went on to found her own digital marketing agency, The Social Formula, after getting rejected from a corporate job. Click play to find out why sometimes rejection is a blessing in disguise!

In this month's podcast I give you my personal experience on managing investors: how to assure transparency with them and a beneficial relationship to both parties. Click play!

This month I chatted to Elena Nikolova, co-founder of Escreo! Her startup produces a special paint which can turn any old wall into a whiteboard, allowing startups to easily and spontaneously jot down their ideas and plan their tasks. Click the image above to hear about Elena's struggle with perfectionism and also her thoughts on startup success.

Operating a business is hard enough on its own, but it's damn near impossible if you can't manage your own life as a founder, first! There's a huge variety of factors when it comes to your well-being: from sleep, to diet and exercise, to socialization, to self-reflection, to organization... the list is a rather long one. But thankfully I've made a summary of it! Click the image above to listen to it.

This month I got to chat with Simon Litvinov, co-founder and CEO at Precision Navigation Systems. All the way from Siberia, Simon runs the startup that's bringing us GPS navigating and positioning with up to 1cm precision. Click play to find out what it's like!

This month I gave my take on how a startup should operate at an early stage -you know, the basics: perfecting your product, establishing company culture, staying solvent and financed... I also talk about the E.O. framework, the key to having quick, effective team meetings! Click play to listen to all this and more.

This month I spoke with Nina Nikolikj, an Eco-System Facilitator at Swisscontact. Born and raised in Macedonia, Nina is a rather busy bee: from startup community developer, to startup storyteller, to "superconnector" and "intrapreneur" - Nina has done (and is doing) it all! Learn all about her tight schedule and her dream of visiting America on a business trip by clicking play.

This month I approached the topic of fundraising. Having gone through several financing rounds of business angels (though never venture capitalists) myself, I know a thing or two about talking to investors.