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E-commerce: The digital space with (un)limited opportunities
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E-commerce: The digital space with (un)limited opportunities
“Who sells and buys online in Southeast Europe?” Is a question that […]
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Emil Shekerdzhiiski, Founder of Premium Coworking Spaces: Bulgarian Startup Ecosystem
Meet Emil Shekerdzhiiski, the founder of Premium Coworking Spaces and a driving […]
PODCAST ZEBRAS & UNICORNS
Podcast: Women and the challenges to start a Startup
Asetila Köstinger is a mentor for female entrepreneurs, an entrepreneur herself, and […]
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Space Odyssey
“New Shepard”: Jeff Bezos on jaunts into space
It won’t be long before the richest man in the world will […]
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BRAIN GAIN
From brain drain to brain gain: What is it that lures young SEE professionals back home?
Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic are forcing many SEE students and young […]
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NFT HYPE
Baywatch star Carmen Electra jumps on NFT bandwagon
It’s nothing new when Hollywood stars dabble in business and technology […]
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Life Sciences
Martin Shiderov: SEE will never be another ‘Golden Triangle’, but can build its own identity and offer differentiation to investors
There should be more focused efforts on technology transfer and venture build […]
DIASPORA
The Bulgarian Trace: Meet Kristina Angeulova Who Builds Bridges between CEE and Singapore Investors
Bulgarian-born Kristina Anguelova is Advisor to the Board and Founder of the […]
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Act Now: EU’s Maria Gabriel Urges Innovation Investment in post-COVID recovery
Research and innovation (R&I) in our post-Covid recovery strategies is a […]
Article
EU Industry Days 2021: The Curious Case of Bulgaria’s Energy Heart and Its Road to Zero-Carbon
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EU Industry Days 2021: The Curious Case of Bulgaria’s Energy Heart and Its Road to Zero-Carbon
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria’s sixth-largest city, is one of the heaviest coal-dependent […]
Bill Gates: Reforestation Projects for CO2 Compensation Make Little Sense
In recent months, Bill Gates’ name has made headlines in all sorts […]
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Are You the Only One Who Can Do the Job? Tips and Tricks on Delegation for Startup Owners
Svetoslava Stoyanova is a personal growth coach who enjoys supporting entrepreneurs […]
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Interviews
Stephen Fluin, Angular DevRel Lead: Why Аre Developer Advocates Important and How to Build a Strong Dev Community
Stephen Fluin is a developer relations lead on the Angular team at […]
@BioNTech
Тhe Story of BioNTech SE, the Company with Turkish Origin that Мade a Breakthrough with a COVID-19 Vaccine
After the official press release of the pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer Inc. and […]
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🧪”Science meets Entrepreneurship”👔
Aneliya Karadzhinova-Ferrer: the Physicist that Aims to Recreate the Spirit of CERN in Bulgaria
“Sci-Novator of the Week” is our brand new series of short stories […]
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🖩 Accounting Innovation 🖩
Payhawk Launches a Corporate Card to Enable Easier Management of Employee Spending
Payhawk, the expense management startup that has been an active player in […]
interview
The New Rules of Post-Pandemic Employer Branding: “It Will Expand and Acquire Hybrid Characteristics”
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The New Rules of Post-Pandemic Employer Branding: “It Will Expand and Acquire Hybrid Characteristics”
Changed office environment, different hiring priorities, a shift in the traditional […]
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Interview
Daniel Roth: The Thing I love Most About Blazor Is How It Empowers Every .NET Developer To Be Productive
Several weeks ago, the 2020 edition of the DevReach developer conference brought […]
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guest article
How We Restarted Our Business After COVID-19 Put It To Sleep
Elina Zheleva is CEO of launchlabs Sofia., a business design studio that helps […]
interview
Hristo Hristov: If Your Core Product Is Hit By The Crisis Cut Its Marketing And Invest In A Niche Segment With A Growth Opportunity
The COVID-19 related situation caught us all as businesses far less prepared […]
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👩🎓 👨🎓First day of school
Darin Madzharov: On Entrepreneurship in School and the Importance of a Problem-Solving Mindset
Ucha.se is an interesting case in the Bulgarian startup ecosystem. It’s a […]
Community readsourcing
Books For Entrepreneurial Spirits 3: The Art Of Negotiations, The 10K Hours That Create Superstars, And Masters Of None
Since we see so many book covers and recommendations posted on social […]
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guest article
5 Reasons Why Recruiters In Tech Are So Annoying … [Written By A Recruiter]
You are probably sick and tired of us! No, seriously, we don’t […]
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guest article
Hero, Prisoner Or Phoenix: The Leaders’ Response To A Pandemic
Velina Getova is an organizational psychologist, performance coach and founder […]
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#digitalconference
SHEleader in a Shell: Why We Need Female Leadership More Than Ever In Times Of Fundamental Change
According to a report published by McKinsey Global Institute last year, automation […]
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Remote Work: Tips & Tricks From Startups Who Have Been Mastering It For Years
It’s been around ten days since a large part of the business […]
#powerwomen
Female Entrepreneurs In Tech And Beyond Vol. 1: What Ventures Are They Running And What Are Their Challenges
We often limit the stories we tell to female startup founders, CEOs […]
#powerwomen
Female Entrepreneurs In Tech And Beyond Vol. 2: What Ventures Are They Running And What Are Their Challenges
We often limit the stories we tell to female startup founders, CEOs […]
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Romanian-born Investor Luciana Lixandru Leaves Accel Partners To Run Sequoia Capital In Europe
Romanian-born investor Luciana Lixandru will join Sequoia Capital as head of the […]
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Interview SHEleader@digital
Borina Andrieu About Female Leadership, Innovation In Architecture And Turning A Historical Building In The Biggest Startup Incubator In The World
Currently, Managing Director of Wilmotte & Associés, Borina Andrieu has […]
Vladimir Danailov, Deputy Mayor of Sofia for Digital Transformation, Innovation and Economic Development, showing 100, the number of startups the municipality has worked with. ©TrendingTopics
interview
Mr. Deputy Mayor, How Many Startups Has Sofia Municipality Worked With?
Тhe municipality of the Bulgarian capital city Sofia features a new department […]
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Love is in the app
Feeld: The Dating App Pushing The Limits Of Relationship And Sexuality Concepts… And Its Bulgarian Roots
“People try to simplify what we do a little bit and they […]
AtScale’s VP of R&D Momchil Michailov
interview
Inside The Bulgarian Cloud Storage History, Two Exits And A $25M Investment
The story in brief: Last year, a US company that has attracted […]
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new platform
A New Digital Guide To Bulgaria Helps People Who Want To Move To The Country With Practical Information
Half of the Bulgarians abroad consider moving back to the country, a […]
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interview
CEO Of SMSbump About The Biggest Recent Exit in Bulgaria: If You Choose Investors, Never Go For The Money. We’ve Turned Down 15 VCs
SMSbump, a two-years-old SMS marketing automation company from Bulgaria, just got […]
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resolutions
Goal Setting (Im)possible? Productivity Startupers Share How They Stay Focused On New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions are a lot like startups. Both start with a […]
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RE:TURN
Nikola Kaludov: The Scientist Entrepreneur And His Contribution To Healing Hereditary Blindness
Nikola Kaludov lives in Washington D.C. and prefers to introduce himself as […]
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interview
Emotional Intelligence Coach: People Are Often Afraid Of Listening Closely Because They Fear Of Losing Sight Of Their Own Agenda
David Ryback, Ph.D. is an adviser to corporate presidents and introduces executives […]
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entrepreneurial journey
Panos Kesisis: From Customer Support Officer At 22 To Co-Founder Of A Venture Acquired By GoDaddy In Just Six Years
After finishing his studies in Computer Sciences in Greece, Panos Kesisis moved […]
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RE:TURN
Rumen Hristov: From The Informatics Olympiads To An MIT Spin-Off For Preventive Healthcare
Rumen Hristov comes from the small Bulgarian town Shumen. In the seventh […]
Mihail Stefanov
guest article
Leading Lions: 9 Principles On Building And Managing Teams Of Superstars
Misho Stefanov is a leading Bulgarian communications advisor, trainer and speaker. […]
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recommendation
New Book: Who Are The People Who Drive The Economic And Societal Change In Bulgaria
Who are the people who dare to put effort, fail, stand up, […]
Teodosy Teodosiev, the founder of Kinetik © Trending Topics
entrepreneurial journey
Who Is Actually Behind Kinetik, The First Bulgarian Electric Sports Car
Three weeks ago, hundreds of people rushed into a hall in the […]
Georgi Nenov, the creator of The Superhuman Podcast ©TrendingTopics
portrait
The Superhuman: How Georgi Nenov Turned His Side Hustle Podcast Into A Sustainable Business
“At one point, while I was down and struggling to find my […]
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future of media
Hristo Hristov’s New Endeavors: From CEO Of The Biggest Digital Media Group To A Startup Publisher
He was relieved of duty as CEO of Netinfo, the largest digital […]
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Community Voting
These Are The Bulgarian Nominees For The Central European Startup Awards
The local innovation community is growing. The number of Bulgarian players that […]
VIDEO INTERVIEW
Antony Christov: Today, Without Technologies, Artists Would Have No Tongue To Express Themselves
Before recently coming back to Bulgaria, Antony Christov spent 30 years in […]
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guest article
The Failure Anxiety Of Entrepreneurs And High Achievers And How To Overcome It
Velina Getova is an organizational psychologist, performance coach and founder of […]
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interview
Milen Radkov: On The Journey Of Shifting To Blockchain Developer And The Future Of The Technology
Milen Radkov is founder and CEO of hack, a blockchain development, and […]
Milin Djalaliev
video interview
A Brand Is A Projection Of Everyone On Your Team
There’s one word that describes his career path, he says. Chance. Anything […]
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face of the week
Zlatina Petrova: Economist, Startupper, Creative And Winner Of One Of Most Prestigious Design Competitions In The World
Zlatina Petrova is an economist by education and worked in corporate financing […]
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guest post
Do Stand The Temptation Of Hiring A Workaholic
Plama Hristova, PhD, is an organizational psychologist, a clinical psychologist, and […]
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guest post
8 Ways My Tennis Obsession Made Me A Better Manager And Entrepreneur
Ivaylo Ivanov is known as fintech entrepreneur and the CEO of P2P […]
Liselotte Munk, digital transformation thought leader and CEO of Fadata ©Fadata
Interview
Insurtech Thought Leader: It Might Get Relevant For Google, Amazon and Facebook To Enter The Sector
Liselotte Munk has been working in the technology sector for more than […]
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#decisions #personal story
Bulgarian Founder: His Company Became Part Of Amazon, He Decided To Leave
Marin Petrov lives near Sofia, at the foot of the mountains, meditates, […]
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lessons learned
How To Fail, Learn To Separate Business From Your Personality And Move On To The Next Big Thing
Leslie Spiro is a hard-working son of an immigrant in the UK […]
Rositsa Zaimova, co-dounder of Dalberg Data Insights ©TEDxAUBG
Face of the week
Rositsa Zaimova and Her Data Contribution To A Better World
It’s been around a month since Rositsa Zaimova landed in Uganda where […]
interview
Larry Biehl: In 10 Years AI Will Take Over Everything Cognitive, So Invest In Soft Skills
Larry Biehl, the founder of the Bulgarian Entrepreneurship Center, has spent decades […]
Cait O'Riordan, Chief Product and Information Officer at Financial Times ©Ivan Kolazov
interview
Financial Times: AI and Machine Learning Will Disrupt the People Who Read Us
Some 131 years ago Financial Times was a four-page journal distributed in […]
Elina Zheleva,© launchlabs
face of the week
Elina Zheleva Who Brought Design Thinking to Bulgaria and Now Takes it to The Next Level
Elina Zheleva holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and started her […]
Hristo Georgiev, Atanas Simeonov and Veli Pehlivanov are starting a whole new company and aim to be a factor on the IT services market very soon - Resolute Software © Jordan Mihajlov, TrendingTopics.bg
new player
Resolute Software: The Three Entrepreneurs Who Want to Change the Face of IT Services
We rarely talk about IT service and consultancy companies with excitement, but […]
Alex Shopski (in the middle) is a digital entrepreneur and cybersec consultant who's been trying to work with the government for quite some time and has found a formula © Odyssey
face of the week
Alex Shopski and His Idea of How Business to Government Startups Could Enter the Game
“Several weeks ago there was a murder in Utrecht. And because the […]
interview
The Pitch Doctor: Founders Believe They Need To Address The Investors’ Brain First. That’s a Mistake
Christoph Sollich is known as The Pitch Doctor in the Berlin startup […]
Victor Penev was one of the panelists during RE:TURN, the initiative that aims to bridge the Bulgarian startup ecosystem with the diaspora in the USA ©BVCA
Face of the week
Victor Penev and Edamam: On the Intersection between Tech Entrepreneurship, Healthy Food, and Yoga
Victor Penev, who in the 90s, together with schoolmate Lyuben Belov, co-founded […]
No, that's not a stock picture. Unlike their wedding photo, Kremena and Ned Dervenkovi, have never competed in real life, they do start a lot of initiatives together, but not businesses. ©Vassil Nikolov
entrepreneurial couples
My Venture. Your Venture. Our Adventure.
In her book from 1998, Dr. Kathy Marshack examines the traps entrepreneurial […]
Max is a visionary, Elina brings him back on Earth. She taught him to love people, he taught her optimism. Both work hard, but not together. ©Misho Novakov
ENTREPRENEURIAL COUPLES
Elina & Max: My Venture. Your Venture. Our Adventure.
Elina Zheleva, the founder of DesignThinking.bg – the first design-thinking […]
Tatyana and Alex wanted to found a startup together while they were students, then learned what it means to run a businesses and are happy they are not doing it together now. ©private
entrepreneurial couples
Tatyana & Alex: My Venture. Your Venture. Our Adventure.
Tatyana Mitkova and Alex Naydenov have been together for seven years. They […]
No, that's not a stock picture. Unlike their wedding photo, Kremena and Ned Dervenkovi, have never competed in real life, they do start a lot of initiatives together, but not businesses. ©Vassil Nikolov
entrepreneurial couples
Kremena & Ned: My Venture. Your Venture. Our Adventure.
Kremena and Ned Dervenkovi met during the Summer Entrepreneurship Program in the […]
Vassil Terziev is currently partner at early stage investment fund Eleven ©Eleven Ventures
Interview
Vassil Terziev: Any Angel Investment Should Be Seen as a Write-Off
Vassil Terziev is probably the most active and well-known angel investor in […]
Momchil Kyukrchiev, CEO of Leanplum
Video story
US-Bulgarian Leanplum: The Two Engineers Who Built a Global Mobile Marketing Business
The mobile marketing engagement startup Leanplum, one of the fastest growing […]
Julian Hosp, a medical graduate and professional kite surfer, became one of the most famous faces of the European blockchain industry. ©Zsolt Marton
TenX Ex-President
Julian Hosp: Critics See Him as a Scammer. He Believes He’s a Scapegoat.
In 2017, he flew high with TenX and collected around $80M from […]
Jordanova believes in the business approach even when it comes to environmental causes. © Jack Mitchell
interview
Environmental Entrepreneur: The Fight Against Climate Change Needs to be Driven by Facts and Data
Lubomila Jordanova is a female entrepreneur who chose to tackle the complex […]
Ivan Iliev, founder of Eden Tech Labs, left the family construction business to develop applications ©Eden Tech Labs
Face of the week
Ivan Iliev who Made it to Apple’s “Best of 2018” List
Every year Apple publishes an editorial list of what the company sees […]
The Bulgarian Tech & Digital Diaspora has many faces and not all of them appear in the media stream ©BVCA
Faces of the week
Who is Out There: Stories From The Tech & Digital Diaspora
As media, we often publish stories because there are new announcements about […]
Bogomil Balkansky is a well-known name in the Bulgarian but also US tech ecosystem and is also involved in the creation of a new Bulgarian center for entrepreneurship and innovation in the Valley ©Digitalk
Face of the week
Bogomil Balkansky – Bulgaria’s First Honorary Consul in the Silicon Valley
The discussion whether Bulgaria needs and could have a formal representative such […]
Lubomila Jordanova, founder of Plan A, a data driven platform that aims to channel capital to environmental causes
Face of the Week
Lubomila Jordanova Who Does Not Believe in Plan B for the Planet
Lubomila Jordanova has just won an important recognition – her venture called […]
Wilfried Durand is also the co-founder of The French Tech Sofia community©Trending Topics
face of the week
Wilfried Who Chose Sofia Over His €17M Startup in Paris and Started Investing in the Local Ecosystem
In 2010 the French entrepreneur Wilfried Durand together with some friends, started […]
Sasha Bezuhanova, local angel investor, a former senior executive at HP and co-founder of non-governmental organization MOVE.BG is the first Bulgarian board member in EIT ©MOVE.BG
Face of the Week
Sasha Bezuhanova has Entered the Board of European Institute of Innovation & Technology
Since the beginning of 2018 six new board members of the European […]
Maria is a selfmade entrepreneur. Prior to founding a PR agency, one of the leading ones in Bulgaria indeed, she graduated as an engineer. ©United Partners
Face of the Week
Maria Gergova-Bengtsson has Started a South Eastern European Chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization
The South East Europe chapter of the global Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) was […]
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INTERVIEW
How Romanian Metabeta will transform the startup investment market
There has never been a better time to be a startup founder […]
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CRISIS
Airbnb will provide free accommodation to 20,000 Afghanistan refugees
The US booking portal Airbnb, one of the most popular tourism platforms, […]
Andreas Nemeth from Uniqa Ventures. © Uniqa
Uniqa Ventures to focus on more Series A investments in the future
In June Uniqa Ventures, the venture capital subsidiary of the insurance company […]
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INTERVIEW🎙️
The Story of Martin Stoyanov- a Y Combinator Participant with a Mission to Disrupt the Way we Use Email
Imagine what it feels like to receive over 200 emails every day! […]
Ivo Totev, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at SUSE ©Private Archive
Interview
Ivo Totev: Independent Research Showed that Bulgaria Is The Best Possible Location for SUSE’s New Innovation Hub
Last week, SUSE, the world’s largest independent organization developing open-source […]
