TETRA Scale-up Bootcamp#2

Day 1

• Introduction & Motivation (from NGI to successful business) – Evolveum
• Initial pitching – introduction of the projects
• Self-audit your business – Andrej Petrus, ZAKA
• Innovative business models - Zuzanna Mikołajczyk, Know.How.Match
• Market & Competition

Day 2

• Proposition validation before entering new market – Slavo Tuleja, ZAKA
• Sales on new markets and Growth hacking – Slavo Tuleja, ZAKA
• How to scale with growth - Patrick Flesner, LeadX Capital
• Collaborate to grow: how to approach a corporate – Adèle Yaroulina, ESN

Day 3

• Financing – CIVITTA Estonia
• Managing IP around Free Software for Socially Responsible Businesses - Gabriel Ku Wei Bin, FSFE
• Final pitching event – 3 minute pitch + 2 minutes Q&As for attractive prizes

Adam Brocka is head of Customer Experience at Kiuub. He is a team coach and design thinking enthusiast who is helping teams and individuals to improve their innovation skills thanks to better understanding of their customers. At Kiuub, he manages the customer journey in order to bring its clients better customer experience and high quality services. At the same time he focuses on the marketing strategy and scouting for talented & highly skilled people to the team.

Adèle Yaroulina studied International Trade and Investment at the Brussels Diplomatic Academy, a joint program by Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Solvay Business School. She has a 10-years experience in business development, strategic partnerships within private & public sectors, and is a pan-European co-innovation facilitator since 2016. Adèle has acquired significant knowledge of digital innovation and is fascinated by the impact of new technologies on business activities. She is convinced that a cohesive European startup ecosystem is the key to empowerment and scaling up. Adèle's LinkedIn profile

Gabriel Ku Wei Bin is the Legal Coordinator at the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), a non-profit based in Berlin that advocates users to control technology through the use of Free Software. Gabriel has a background in corporate and commercial legal practice, and has also worked as a legal researcher for various issues in human rights law. He currently manages all of the FSFE's legal projects, including administering the FSFE's Legal Network of free software legal professionals, as well as the FSFE's involvement as a consortium member of NGI Zero.

Patrick Flesner is a growth capital investor and a partner at the investment firm LeadX Capital Partners.Each year, he looks at hundreds of tech companies that want to raise capital in order to accelerate growth. He sees patterns in companies that fail and companies that succeed. His respective growth expertise and his knowledge deriving from more than 16 years in Private Equity and Venture Capital have gone into his latest book FastScaling. Patrick Flesner received a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cologne and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from INSEAD Business School.

Slavo TULEYA is a "Generation Y" expert on Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship. In the past, he gained experience by helping launch Innovation labs such as the SKODA AUTO DigiLab and its related offices in Tel Aviv and Beijing. Slavo lived in 7 countries in the last 7 years and accumulated his experience from Real-Estate, Utilities, and Automotive. He is a Certified Design Sprint Master and founder of the Czechoslovak Service Design Community. Today he continues building new ventures in the field of Digital Native Vertical Brands and Service Design. Companies usually get in touch with Slavo for advice on how to set up internal innovation labs, methodologies, and keynotes on Intrapreneurship.

Andrej Petrus is investment manager at ZAKA.vc, an early stage, private fund operating in the CEE region. ZAKA invests in scalable early stage startups with validated product-market fit with ambition to scale beyond our region. Prior to ZAKA, he worked in M&A and strategy consultancy for PwC in Prague and in venture building for CEAi. Andrej has a degree in business administration and finance from University of Economics in Prague and from Humboldt University in Berlin.

Zuzanna Mikołajczyk is a former marketing director and board member with more than 10 years international experience. Currently founder of Know.How.Match. and she works as independent advisor supporting companies to prepare for competing in the future. She combines her practical experience, proven theories and easy-to-use tools and adapts them to the specific situation of a business. Author of quarterly Subjective Innovation Review and weekly Know.How.Match. Podcast. Privately mum of two girls and currently living in Italy.

Lance Leverette, MBA is a Brussels-based expert, bringing over 15 years of experience in business to business (B2B) market research, analysis and strategy. He is an Innovation Manager conducting market research and analysis as well as market strategy, business plans, commercial due diligence, and market reports for universities, start-ups, grant consortiums, and companies in Europe for new product development and growth expansion strategies (research grants, investment risk assessment, and strategic planning). He serves as an expert coach for the European Innovation Council with the European Commission and has worked on 10 market research and economic impact assessments for the Malta Council Science and Technology (MCST) FUSION voucher scheme.

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