Vlad Gozman is the CEO and Co-founder of involve.me, a next-generation user engagement & customer experience platform with a focus on digital marketers & e-commerce. Vlad builds B2B SaaS products at the intersection of AI & no-code. Involve.me is an AI-powered interactive form builder used by 3K+ businesses worldwide, including Salesforce, Boston C…

Michael Kamleitner is the CEO & Founder of walls.io, an all-in-one social wall solution that allows you to collect, curate, and display content in an easy-to-customize feed. Passionate about SaaS, tech and social media, Michael developed an easy-to-use social media tool which allows you to collect content from multiple social media platforms or let…

Zoltan Vardy is a startup mentor and speaker who helps B2B tech founders sell and market to enterprise clients by applying his sales and marketing blueprint called The Launch Code. The Launch Code is built on the principles, tools, and techniques Zoltan used to close $2 billion in sales over his 30-year global career as an executive, entrepreneur, …

PETER ĎURIŠ is the CEO and co-founder of Kickresume. Although his main focus nowadays is business development and product design, he used to do everything from customer support and revising resume samples, to working with HR experts and hiring. Peter is the original mind behind Kickresume and has been working with resumes for more than 7 years. Tog…

BrokerChooser was founded in 2016 by Gergely Korpos and Tibor Bedő, quickly becoming the leading European broker comparison site. BrokerChooser is the go-to site for uncomplicated and trustworthy online comparison of brokers. It helps independent investors and traders to find an online broker fitting to their needs. They compare online brokers, be …

Bjoern Wolff (Björn Wolff) is the Founder & Managing Director of mymoria GmbH, the pioneer of tech-enabled digital funeral services with a nationwide network of quality driven funeral homes. Björn is a digitalist, entrepreneur, mentor, Chief Undertaking Officer, founder and winemaker. His professional career includes Westerwelle Foundation (as me…

Mattia Franco is the founder and CEO of Xceed, a venture-backed startup that is taking over the information business by linking the B2B and B2C side of the nightlife industry, providing real-time analytics, and addressing the untapped Big Data space in the market. Mattia was one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2019, while its company has been classifi…

Simon Vestner grew up with elevators. He is the grandson of Wilhelm Vestner, who founded the elevator manufacturer of the same name in 1930. For several years, Simon ran the successful family business together with his father. Then he decided to build something of his own and reinterpret the role of the elevator in the building. He founded VESTNER.…

Johannes Stuhler is a Co-Founder of ListNRide, a digital company that provides booking platforms for bike rentals, test rides, and activities. Johannes is also the Managing Director of ListNRide. His previous experience includes HAWE Hydraulik SE (Head of Management Accounting and Head of IT) and Edmund Lutz Textil KG (assistant to the CEO). Johann…

Balazs Sandorfi is the CEO and founder of Bankmonitor Ltd., the market leader in banking products comparison in Hungary. Balazs is an enthusiastic start-up guy in the field of online financial services. His ultimate goal is to achieve everlasting #1 market position by applying very new business models. He is a passionate fan of finance. The word of…

Bogdan Badea is the CEO of eJobs Romania, the first recruitment platform launched in Romania. He is an experienced business leader with +16 years of working in the HR business services environment. Bogdan is proficient in Business Development, Strategy, Marketing, HR Software, Job Classifieds, HR Outsourcing and Recruitment. Throughout the years he…

Ioana Dragomir co-founded together with Larisa Burca a B2B marketplace for event management named TULIPR. Ioana leads global digital transformation projects in the corporate environment, while Larisa is familiar with the events industry where she works as an Event Planner. Ioana talks about automation, event services, customer experience, tools and…

Eva (Micheva) Vucheva has worked during her professional career in 12 companies, founding and co-founding some of them. In present time she is the Co-Founder and GM of CONTENTO.tech (7 yrs 5 mos) and Founder of Impakt_ID (2 yrs 5 mos). Her educational background includes Harvard Business School Online (other; CORe and Sustainable Business Strategie…

Chalid El Ashker is the Founder and CEO of Spacewise, a pioneering all-in-one solution for leasing of flexible spaces. He is also the founder of Ashker Ventures. He founded two other companies and has worked amongst others as lawyer and Head of Digital Unit for several companies. Spacewise is a digital platform that offers digital end-to-end soluti…

Bogdan Bocse has been working as an IT professional for 12 years, in organizations of varied size and industry, in roles such as solution architect, project manager and technology consultant. He is the managing partner of Knosis.ai, a marketplace for quality-controlled machine learning data sets, and Envisage.ai, a end-to-end solution for computer …

Co-Founder & CEO of Busuu, one of the world's leading mobile apps for language learning with more than 100m+ users. Their vision is to inspire the world to learn together! Bernhard is frequently invited to speak at international conferences about Edtech and entrepreneurship, such as DLD, Webit Congress, Noah Conference, SIME, SXSW Edtech, BETT, GET…

CEO & Founder Expertwired.com. Reinier Huisman is a disruptive tech enthusiast & experienced (+15 yrs) strategy consultant and entrepreneur. In-depth marketplaces experience (ex-eBay corpdev). Reinier Huisman studied Econometrics and Business Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Reinier Huisman said: “Strategy is making choices today which wil…

Andreas Millonig is the Chief Operating Officer of IMMOunited GmbH. Born in Carinthia, he successfully completed his studies in applied business administration at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt in 2009 and started his professional career as a key account manager in the Immounited sales team. In June 2012 he took over the business developmen…

Sander Van de Rijdt is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of construction documentation and task management platform PlanRadar, being responsible for the corporate and growth strategy at PlanRadar, but the Finance, HR, Legal and Administration departments also report to him. Sander studied at the Vienna University of Technology and Vienna University of Econ…

New podcast out! Today’s interviewee is Kristofs Blaus, Co-founder of Nutrameg and Science22.com, an e-health startup that employs nutritionists & data scientists to develop AI/ML technology to personalize diet plans. Kristofs won “The Best Business Idea”, twice, in 2007, and appeared in Forbes Latvia with his app. Listen to his podcast here: Check…

A new entrepreneur has joined our #EuropeanBootstrappingChampions podcast: Till Schmid. He is the founder of Consultport, an online consulting platform that takes on board top-tier, highly experienced consultants and digital experts to advance successful projects. Their portfolio includes companies of all sizes, from multinational large companies t…

Stefano Pavignano is the Chief Executive Officer of Bakeca.it, one of the main classifieds sites in Italy. Bakeca.it users can not only publish their ads for free, but they can also find jobs, accommodation, courses, pets and other products and services. The ads are divided into 110 cities (all Italian provincial capitals) and 87 categories. To con…

In this epidode of the European Bootstrapping Champions Eugen B Russ invited Mathias Mathias Ockenfels from Speedinvest to talk about the differences in the investment approach in a VC and a private equity firm, what advice he has in entrepreneurs looking for funding, but also about the Marketplace Conference 2021. Mathias Ockenfels is a partner at…

Rado Daradan is one of the 2 founders of Hooray Studios, a company that creates personalized children’s books. He played a crucial role in growing the company from a team of four people to 120 team members and establishing it as a market leader in 6 countries around the world. In 2018 alone, the company sold almost half a million unique books and a…

Marius Donhauser is the founder and CEO of hotelkit GmbH, an All-in-One Hotel Operations Platform as the ultimate solution for hotels. In this episode Eugen B. Russ is talking to Marius about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur during a pandemic and what it takes to build a tech company from scratch. hotelkit´s solution for collaboration …

Reinhold Baudisch is the founder and managing director of Austria's largest independent tariff comparison portal, Durchblicker.at, since 2009. The company is Austria's largest comparison platform Durchblicker currently offers 28 tariff comparisons for insurance, telecommunications, electricity and gas, as well as traditional financial products such…

Karriere.at is Austria's largest career portal. The opportunities of the market leader in online recruiting connect suitable candidates with the best employers. Since the company was founded in 2004, two things have driven us above all: service and innovation. Klaus Hofbauer is co-founder and co-managing director of karriere.at. Due to his orientat…

Eugen B. Russ, Managing Director of Russmedia Equity Partners, welcomes you to the European Bootstrapping Champions podcast. A show with and for bootstrappers to discuss ideas, opportunities, and to learn from tech entrepreneurs about what drives them and what is their key to success. In this episode we'll learn from Martin Lenz, Jobiqo CEO about h…

In this webinar Bergfex CEO Alexander Katzmaier talks about his experience building a cost-efficient data analytics setup from scratch. During the one hour conversation, Alexander gives you practical insights into building an automated reporting solution with a limited budget that is easy to manage and will share the main learnings for entrepreneur…

Russmedia Equity Partners (RMEP) invites you to join this talk where you can learn from the speakers‘ experience about what it means to sell a company. Dos and don’ts, tips and an insightful Q&A session. Who are the speakers? Markus Kümmel is managing director and co-founder of Bergfex, the leading online company for outdoor enthusiasts in Europe. …

Acquire your competitors to accelerate growth Russmedia Equity Partners (RMEP) invites you to listen to the webinar on how you can consolidate your market share with M&A activities. This is the recording of the online webinar that took place on zoom on March 25th and is dedicated to all tech companies that are interested in learning the ins and out…

Martin Lenz, CEO at Jobiqo describes the cooperation with Russmedia Equity Partners At the end of 2019, Russmedia Equity Partners (RMEP) acquired a majority stake from Jobiqo founder Klaus Furtmüller, who is still on board as minority shareholder and director. Martin Lenz, shareholder and CEO at Jobiqo also stayed to continue and support the growth…

Peter Weiler is the managing director and founder of Dating Central Europe, Hungary’s leading online dating company.He started his career as a graphic and web designer in 1995 and was involved in launching Hungary’s leading news portal Origo for Hungarian Telekom in 1998. He started his own company Habostorta with a group of co-investors in the yea…