Caspar Lee is the co-founder of Influencer.com which pairs up businesses and content creators for paid content opportunities. His advice for content creators to build a successful social media following is to allocate enough time and effort into your actions. Creativity, consistency and collaboration are...
Malta has been recognized as the platform to launch through this panel with startups that Malta Enterprise has supported. Janos Barberis expressed that apart from favourable taxes, “Malta brings what certain ecosystems don’t have,” which refers to the peace that allows you to focus on...
In Instanbul, Deniz Tuncalp finds investors and startups and acts as an intermediary between them, connecting them to eliminate the barriers they may face to communicate or work effectively together. Throughout his presentation, he emphasizes the importance of scaling as without it investors will not...
55% of startups are failing during the first five years. Reihnold Karner addressed the difficulty in starting businesses due to lack of preparing business models and their entrepreneurship design. They limit their research which leads to misunderstanding the market and undermining their clients’ needs. These...
Before the pandemic, edtech companies went decades without raising financing due to lack of interest from generalist venture capitalists. Now, more than a year since COVID-19 began, the sector is showing signs of maturation, from first profits to unicorns, potential IPOs and a rush of...
Start Up Nations: The Quest to Attract the Best Startup Companies brought together a variety of professionals with different viewpoints to discuss Malta becoming a global hub for startup and technical talent including Kurt Farrugia- CEO Malta Enterprise, Charles Mizzi- CEO Malta Residency Agency, Nicolas...
Emilio Maciel is an entrepreneur with a wide-ranging experience in sales and software development, having worked with different startups in several countries. After a year-and-a-half at McKinsey Brazil, he was responsible for founding Groupon in Brazil and in China. During his time in Malta at the...
Bobby Johnson is an expert at fixing things. His job requires him to fix some of the most complex problems on some of the worlds most used platforms. He was Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he led the infrastructure engineering team for six years....
One of the many important subjects which was discussed at the Start Up Festival which took place in Malta on the 13th and 14th of October was the issues which companies are finding when it comes to recruiting and holding on to employees Employees are no...
Christoph Sollich, known as the Pitch Donor or Pitch Coach emphasised the importance of pitching during his presentation at the 2nd edition of the Startup Festival, stating that every startup founder is constantly pitching their ideas. During his presentation he outlined a variety of lessons to ensure effective pitching....