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Techtalk
By Stefan KoritarBusiness
Techtalk episodes
- Episode 2: Bogdan Oros On His Experience In The Hardware Market and How Consumers Think
Bogdan has experience in developing markets from scratch in the software sector and the ability to understand the way customers use and want to use products.
He has experience working with big names like IBM, Microsoft, and renown middle eastern banks.
He holds a degree in computer science from the Technical University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and has been selling security software in different countries and creating markets for the past years. Bogdan is a startup founder, passionate in helping great products scale, a husband and a father.
This is a conversation full of quality information. Bogdan went knee-deep into how the hardware market can be improved, what kept promising projects back, and how you can market yourself to work with the big names.
What you'll hear about in this episode:
- What Onyx Beacon was and the huge potential for market disruption it had
- Why everything didn't go exactly as planned
- How Bogdan was able to build on a trend set by Apple
- The importance of infrastructure when launching a new technology
- Moving from developing software to developing hardware products
- A smart strategy for competing in the hardware market
- One of the big mistakes Bogdan did as CEO
- How to market yourself to work with the big names in your industry
- Managing a hardware company
- Dealing with burnout
- Assessing the market you're in
- The Government's involvement in the startup scene
- Fun facts about the hardware market's history
- Our economy after the CoVid crisis
- Bogdan's future projects
Enjoy our talk and make sure you subscribe to the podcast.
1 hr 21 min - Episode 1: Andrei Dudoiu And The Future Of Equity Crowdfunding in Eastern Europe
Andrei Dudoiu is the CEO of SeedBlink and the Co-Founder of Human Finance. He used to be a banker for the last 20 years and his past roles include Deputy CEO, Corporate & SME banking at Banca Transilvania and CEO of Volksbank Romania.
In 2018 Andrei started a new life journey, willing to build new experiences, find new perspectives and purpose by helping. All for the greater good of the communities, he is designing the organizational culture of companies but also developing his skills and autonomy as an entrepreneur. He became a member of various social or charity organizations but also started his entrepreneurial Fintech & education venture.
Andrei, along with Ionuț Pătrăhău, another former top executive banker, co-founded in 2018 Human Finance. A platform that provides knowledge digital tools and aggregates the investment readiness rating for the early stage innovative startups. Human Finance connects the innovative, ethical and well prepared entrepreneurs with the appropriate investors and lenders.
In 2019 they made a spin-off and launched SeedBlink, the first equity crowdfunding platform developed in Romania that already helped more than 7 innovative startups to get funding.
What you'll hear about in this episode:
- What SeedBlink is, and how they help startups get a head start
- The complexities of the legal framework in Romania and Eastern Europe regarding startups
- How SeedBlink’s first equity crowdfunding campaigns went
- What the investors network in Romania looks like
- What equity crowdfunding is, and how it can help you
- What it takes to have a successful crowdfunding campaign
- Financing in the digital world
- Crowdfunding for NGOs
- How to get financed on SeedBlink
- Some lessons from the banking world
Enjoy this conversation and make sure you subscribe to our podcast.
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Techtalk is a conversation platform about the CEE tech startup ecosystem, with a focus on Romanian technology entrepreneurs, innovators, and experts and their exciting journey of how they got to where…
they are today.