Growing a Digital Business in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the new digital Wild West - with amazing opportunities. Traditionally most entrepreneurs had to go to the US to make their digital dreams come true - with Phil Libin (Evernote) or Andrej Naborgoj (Talking Tom) among the more prominent examples. Now a new crop of native startups is "making it" internationally - while staying rooted.
In this session some of this new crop of international entrepreneurs and a VC share how they do it, talk about some of the challenges and give advice for startups and digital professionals how to be successful in Eastern Europe.
Presenters
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Investment Director at Runa Capital. Work with seed-stage software startups, collaborate with incubators and accelerators, develop business of portfolio companies. Former Microsoft Seed Fund managing director, software developer and evangelist.
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I'm a Co-founder at Xyo.net, a next-generation mobile app search company, where I head all growth activities. Additionally I am a Berlin partner at dots'n'spaces, a collective of international technology professionals. I also mentor and invest in startups.
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CEO of talkbits (social voice service), mobile enthusiast and an accomplished social communicator, contributes to building Telco community. Springboard and Seedcamp mentor. Former VP of Mobile at Yandex (Nasdaq: YNDX), VP of Global Marketing at SPB Software (sold to Yander, Nov. 2011).
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Entrepreneur turned angel investor turned VC. Mentioned by Forbes.com as the only Russian woman on "The Top Women in Venture Capital and Angel Investing" list.