European Bootstrapping Champions

New podcast out! Today’s interviewee is Kristofs Blaus, Co-founder of  Nutrameg and Science22.com, an e-health startup that employs nutritionists & data scientists to develop AI/ML technology to personalize diet plans. Kristofs won “The Best Business Idea”, twice, in 2007, and appeared in Forbes Latvia with his app. Listen to his podcast here:

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 A new entrepreneur has joined our #EuropeanBootstrappingChampions podcast: Till Schmid. He is the founder of Consultport, an online consulting platform that takes on board top-tier, highly experienced consultants and digital experts to advance successful projects. Their portfolio includes companies of all sizes, from multinational large companies to start-ups, in more than 53 countries.

Till Schimd is passionate about digitalization and entrepreneurship, always eager to connect with people who are interested in these fields and also in consulting. 

In 2004, Till was awarded the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program, an annual international competition, through which are identified and rewarded “the academic achievement and leadership potential of 100 of the most accomplished students at 54 designated top-ranked universities in 16 countries and regions.” As stated on his Linkedin profile, he was offered an educational scholarship, being also awarded for academic excellence, leadership potential and exemplary service.

After working as a strategy consultant at BCG for six years and helping to build BCG Digital Ventures, he founded Consultport in 2017 to disrupt the consulting industry.

Listen in to find out his story, but also his advice to entrepreneurs.

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Stefano Pavignano is the Chief Executive Officer of Bakeca.it, one of the main classifieds sites in Italy. Bakeca.it users can not only publish their ads for free, but they can also find jobs, accommodation, courses, pets and other products and services. The ads are divided into 110 cities (all Italian provincial capitals) and 87 categories. To continue a growth path, the company management is strengthened and renewed with appointing Stefano Pavignano as CEO. 

In this episode Eugen B. Russ talks to Stefano about his career path, about how to grow a business , how the pandemic affected his portal, but also what advice he has for tech entrepreneurs.

Listen to this great talk and learn from his years of experience.

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In this epidode of the European Bootstrapping Champions Eugen B Russ invited Mathias Mathias Ockenfels  from Speedinvest to talk about the differences in the investment approach in a VC and a private equity firm, what advice he has in entrepreneurs looking for funding, but also about the Marketplace Conference 2021.

Mathias Ockenfels is a partner at Speedinvest, one of Europe’s leading Venture Capital funds, with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Investment professional working in Startups, Venture Capital & Corporate M&A since 2008; strong focus on tech-companies in particular online marketplaces, classifieds, platforms, SaaS, SaaS enabled marketplaces and any other digital business benefiting from solid network effects. Serving on several boards of portfolio companies, significant deal making experience buy- & sell-side.

“I ❤ Network Effects. Our team will elevate your startup to the next level! Seeing businesses flourish when Network Effects unfold is what drives me (…and, let’s be honest, dark chocolate and espresso, too).”

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Rado Daradan is one of the 2 founders of Hooray Studios, a company that creates personalized children’s books. He played a crucial role in growing the company from a team of four people to 120 team members and establishing it as a market leader in 6 countries around the world. In 2018 alone, the company sold almost half a million unique books and achieved a turnover of 12 million euros. And Khloe Kardiashian knows them…

In this episode Nicola Szekely, RMEP managing director will be talking to Rado about how he founded the company together with Mic Melanšek, what were the challenges how they made most of the opportunities and how they managed to grow a fantastic team and a successful business.

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Marius Donhauser is the founder and CEO of hotelkit GmbH, an All-in-One Hotel Operations Platform as the ultimate solution for hotels.
In this episode Eugen B. Russ is talking to Marius about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur during a pandemic and what it takes to build a tech company from scratch.

hotelkit´s solution for collaboration & service optimization makes handovers smoother, communication simpler, and guests happier. With hotelkit housekeeping, hotels benefit from digitized processes, seamless interfaces to PMS, and real-time updates of the room status. Delivering outstanding service has never been easier and now hoteliers can spend more time doing what they do best: making their guests happy.

Father of two daughters and enthusiastic hobby athlete – the everyday life of Marius Donhauser is many things but certainly not monotonous, and the story behind it is just as exciting.

Listen to our newest episode of the #EuropeanBootstrappingChampions podcast, where Marius shares with us his entrepreneurial journey.

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Reinhold Baudisch is the founder and managing director of Austria's largest independent tariff comparison portal, Durchblicker.at, since 2009. The company is Austria's largest comparison platform

Durchblicker currently offers 28 tariff comparisons for insurance, telecommunications, electricity and gas, as well as traditional financial products such as loans, current accounts and savings interest. With the user-friendly comparison calculators, consumers can find top offers in these areas without haggling, they can conclude online deals quickly and easily and thus save several thousand euros a year. In addition, durchblicker offers free advice and supports you when switching to a cheaper provider.

The Vienna-based start-up currently employs over 80 people. 

In this Talk, Eugen B. Russ talks to Reinhold about his early career, how he came up with the idea of this business, but also what advice he has for young entrepreneurs.

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Karriere.at is Austria's largest career portal. The opportunities of the market leader in online recruiting connect suitable candidates with the best employers. Since the company was founded in 2004, two things have driven us above all: service and innovation. 

Klaus Hofbauer is co-founder and co-managing director of karriere.at. Due to his orientation in the company, he has his very special opinions on the subject of HR and technology, online marketing, SEO and many more. His comments are sometimes not very serious, but always thoroughly researched and give insights behind the scenes of a large online portal.

In This Episode Eugen B. Russ is talking to Klaus about how he built his company, what drives him as an entrepreneur and what are the next steps in his career.

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Eugen B. Russ, Managing Director of Russmedia Equity Partners, welcomes you  to the European Bootstrapping Champions podcast. A show with and for bootstrappers to discuss ideas, opportunities, and to learn from tech entrepreneurs about what drives them and what is their key to success. 

In this episode we'll learn from Martin Lenz, Jobiqo CEO about his journey as an "entrepreneurial executive".: how he left a well paying job in a large corporation to join a 5 employee startup, but than shortly together with the team managed to quadruple the revenues and position Jobiqo as a major player on the recruitment solutions market.

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In this webinar Bergfex CEO Alexander Katzmaier talks about his experience building a cost-efficient data analytics setup from scratch.
During the one hour conversation, Alexander gives you practical insights into building an automated reporting solution with a limited budget that is easy to manage and will share the main learnings for entrepreneurs from this experience.


Dos and don’ts, tips and an insightful Q&A session.

This session is dedicated to all entrepreneurs and CTOs that are interested in learning more about building a cost-efficient data analytics setup from scratch.

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