“Build It and They Will Come”: The Myth That’s Keeping Regional Startups Small
For a long time, the startup dream in Central and Eastern Europe followed a dangerously […]
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“Build It and They Will Come”: The Myth That’s Keeping Regional Startups Small
For a long time, the startup dream in Central and Eastern Europe followed a dangerously simple script: build a clever product with your college friends, raise some local cash, and then (by some miracle of the internet) become a global unicorn. But as the venture capital climate cools and ‘growth at all costs’ proved nonsensical in the long run, the flaws in that script are becoming quite obvious. In a...
Real Equity vs Virtual Shares in Bulgaria: A Corporate Governance Playbook for Employee Incentives
By Viktor Mitev
Viktor Mitev Viktor is a partner at EY Bulgaria dealing with tax planning of deals, […]
Founders, Stop Dumping Money on Your Go-To-Market Strategy
If you’re a founder, at least once you’ve googled “go-to-market strategy.” You’ve asked ChatGPT, and […]
Real Equity vs Virtual Shares in Bulgaria: A Corporate Governance Playbook for Employee Incentives
Viktor Mitev Viktor is a partner at EY Bulgaria dealing with tax planning of deals, […]
Founders, Stop Dumping Money on Your Go-To-Market Strategy
If you’re a founder, at least once you’ve googled “go-to-market strategy.” You’ve asked ChatGPT, and […]
Ukrainian Preply: How a Regional EdTech Reached Unicorn Status?
Although the COVID period was fruitful for a lot of EdTech startups, the story of […]
CEE Founders, Stop Hiring “Fundraising Consultants.”
I’ve noticed a new trend in the CEE ecosystem: first-time founders outsourcing one of their […]
Identity After the Merger: A Case Study on Turning the Strengths of Seven Companies Into One Coherent Story
Brand is often treated as surface. An afterthought added after direction, structure, and strategy are […]
What Agency Founders Should Know Before Building Their First Product
Most CEE startup founders start their entrepreneurial journey by building an agency, like Omnisend, which […]
What CEE Startups Need More Than Money
The Central and Eastern European (CEE) has grown remarkably over the past decade, yet despite […]
Financing the Frontier: Inside CFO Insights’ Blueprint for Europe’s Scaleups in Deep Tech, Climate, and Defense
Europe’s most ambitious founders are building at the edge of innovation — from AI and […]
Founder Red Flags: Behaviors That Shut Investors Out
At Infobip Shift’s Startup stage in Zadar, Croatia – a small crowd of founders, investors, […]
Why Brilliant Products Still Fail to Raise Capital
Attracting Investors: Practical Legal Advice for Startups and Scale-ups Founders in CEE are sitting on […]
How to Know Which People Your Business Can’t Survive Without
A practical framework to identify key people, assess risks, and decide what to do next. […]
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