1. Learning to fly: building tech
startups in CEE
Spark.me, 26 september

2. The fabulous me
• Small time tech entrepreneur
• Founded of How to Web & Startup Spotlight
• Also founded Tech Hub Bucharest, Tech Angels
and others
• Mentor at Seedcamp, Springboard / Tech
Stars, Eleven, LAUNCHub, Rockstart, HackFWD
and others
• @bogdaniordache

3. Who are we?

4. The h4ck3rs

5. Engineering + lack of resources =
the hacking culture

6. #1 Engineers build good tools for
engineers

7. Market disconnection

8. Does it worth it?

9. Local product companies

10. Service oriented companies

11. 40 developers x 8 hours x 22 days
x 12 months x 50 USD / hour

12. Evernote?

13. #2 Building innovative products
for the global web

14. Look for models

15. Nordeus, LogMeIn, Bitdefender, Ava
ngate, Prezi, Telerik, Ubervu, 123Con
tactForm, Codeanywhere, Mavenhut
….

16. SaaS or gaming

17. MVP costs, later monetization?

18. #3 Evaluate SaaS and gaming first

19. Tons of learning resources

20. Stanford, MIT, Harvard

21. TechCrunch, PandoDaily, TheNex
tWeb

22. Tens of blogs

23. Meet your local community

24. #4 Connect to your local community
& to global knowledge

25. Money & learning

26. Early stage money? Ha!

27. Tens of accelerators

28. #5 Reach out to accelerators

29. Building a startup is a learning
process

30. Meet mentors, decrypt
message, repeat

31. Mentors are biased

32. Mentors are not necessarelly
clients

33. Skin in the game?

34. #6 Figure out not what mentors
are saying, but why

35. Hope you enjoyed it 

36. Best time to start.

37. You’ve got no excuse.

38. Start it now.

39. Thank you!