Entrepreneurship is not an easy path. The top personal traits that make a successful entrepreneur include discipline, confidence, open-mindedness, proactive, competitive, creative, determined, excellent people skills, great work ethics, and, perhaps most importantly, passion. All these traits guide an entrepreneur as they face uncertainty about the value of their business, build a supportive and engaged team, get clear about what their customers want and need, and persevere through times of failure and learning. 

In this episode, I talk to seasoned entrepreneurs, Aleksandar Stamenić and Sven Rudolf Mumenthaler, about their entrepreneurial journeys and the challenges, joys, surprises, and learnings they encountered along the way. Aleks and Sven share their wisdom and offer guidance to entrepreneurs that are undoubtedly helpful to other entrepreneurs regardless of where they are on their entrepreneurial journey. Aleks and Sven clearly love technology and have focussed on developing products that make the lives of others better. Their passion for what they do comes across in this interview and they have good ideas that help entrepreneurs give back to their community.

About our guests

Aleksandar Stamenić is the Founder & CEO of ATG Innovations, a group of dedicated professionals working towards the common goal of creating cutting edge technology that will help protect our planet in the long run. ATG Innovations has designed and patented green energy technology in the form of highly efficient heat-exchangers that can be used in a variety of environments ranging from homes, offices, airplanes and automobile engines, and HVAC. Alex is a team leader with a strong passion for technology and the energy sector overall with many innovative ideas in development, some of which are currently patent pending. 

Sven Rudolf Mumenthaler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, software developer, and team leader. He's Co-founder and CEO of Swiss Innovation Pool AG (swip.world) and is very passionate about product innovations, development, and full market implementation. He's a certified project manager and also specializes in crowdsourcing and open innovation. He holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 

Links and resources mentioned in the interview