Are you looking into the opportunity to invest into the Balkans startup ecosystem?

It is my pleasure to present you our new podcast with another special guest, Sanja Mitrovska, founder of Networkers, & a key player in the rising Macedonian startup ecosystem & also the current holder of Guiness World Record for the Longest Pitch Marathon (why & how you can discover in the video teaser attached below 😊 ) Sanja is also a hidden growth queen!

Podcast topics:

• What are the needs of current rising startup ecosystem in the Balkans?
• Is the will to change the socio-economical future of Macedonia the biggest winning argument why Macedonians with their unstoppable drive will become the leading tech hub in the upcoming years?
• What stand in the way for local startups to receive foreign funding & what can be done?
• What value proposition is Macedonia as the future tech hub bringing to the global startup community?
• Who are the key players and what are current barriers for local startups and investors In Macedonia that need to be broken-down?
• How can the future of global startup ecosystems looks like with the global talents being accesible globally more then ever before?
• Shell we strive for competition or collaboration?
• How can emerging startup ecosystem become competitive faster then other mature ecosystem ?

Linkedin Sanja Mitrovska: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanja-mitrovska-60894a184

Website Networker: :https://www.networker.mk/

Website Longest Pitch Marathon: https://www.longestpitchmarathon.mk/

With Maja Voje, the globally recognized growth advisor and practitioner, we have created a very hands-on discussion on the topic of: “How Founders can adopt the mindset of growth hacker into product discovery process from day 1"

We have opened various barriers and unknowns startups go through and we have practically addressed best-practices on how to navigate through them through the eyes of growth hacker.

Key podcast topics:

• Why is customer research so important and how to applying growth hackers mindset to it, so you tactically navigate through question like: fear of missing out?, what market to target?, why is competition doing much better?
• Why & how founders should combine intuitive with a tactical process when exploring segments & verticals to find PMF: Why and what you should measure from get-go?
• And how to choose the right metrics for this phase & why not to fall into vanity metrics trap?
• Why there is a lot of nervousness about product launch and when is the right timing actually to launch a product?
• Why should startup give more focus from product development to research & analysis ? How to adopt it as companies DNA that will assure agile and flexible mindset in the team
• We also dive into the topic of why prolonging launch of your product is one of the biggest mistakes you should avoid.
• What makes a team to be high performance team? And how to hustle your execution even with limited resources.
• Other founder weaknesses that can challenge the growth of a company.
• Why it is good to put the ego aside when building. a startup?

As Maja puts it:  “Very little is known and a lot is unknown:)” so dive deep into our episode and share with us your feedback by rating our podcast and subscribing! We create new podcast every week!

Our first guest at Build to Scale podcast is Vit Horky, who is an experienced startup founder and investor. He is a Co-founder and General Partner at Czech Founders VC as well as a founder of Czech Founders, a non-profit helping to support the Czech startup ecosystem. In his previous role, he was a founder and CEO of Brand Embassy, a B2B technology startup. He led the company from inception to opening offices in San Francisco, London, Dubai and Boston, acquiring Fortune 500 customers in 30+ countries, hiring over 130 employees and raising $6M+ in venture capital....learn more about Vit's story in the podcast.

With Vit we covered valuable lessons on 3 main topics:

1) How to talk to investors during your ongoing investment round - building honest relations

2) What would Vit do different if he would build his next start-up

3) What business skills should founders arm themselves with if striving for global success

Connect with us...

Guest speaker: Vit on Linkedin

The host: Radana on Linkedin

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