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New Project: Resurrect TV
Working on a new project is exciting. It’s especially exciting when the project is a result of the vision you had a long time ago but only NOW is the time it can actually come true. It’s exciting to...
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Startup Conference Guide – Get The Most Of The Events You Attend!
Conferences are tricky for a startup. Unless you are an AirBNB or Reddit founder, a hot chick or the organizer, no one is going to look for you there. This is because (hardly) no one knows you. Yeah,...
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From Startup Sprint to Entrepreneur For Life
This weekend I was mentoring at Startup Sprint, an event organized by Poznan-based investor, LMS Invest and startup accelerator, Huge Thing. It’s a bit like Startup Weekend but focused on a specific...
View ArticleGeek’s Guide to Networking [video]
Remember my post Startup Conference Guide – Get The Most Of The Events You Attend? I recently gave a follow-up presentation on the same topic at HackFwd‘s Build 1.0 event in Berlin. I called it “Geek’s...
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I went to Europe’s coolest startup conference. It’s called European Pirate...
I just came back from Cologne, Germany where I spent two amazing days with Europe’s top Internet entrepreneurs and investors at European Pirate Summit, an invite-only startup conference like no other,...
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I Wish I Were Incubated
Last week I attended Google For Entrepreneurs event in Wroclaw where I had a fireside chat on stage with Asier Rios about my career as an entrepreneur. I think I let Asier down as instead of bragging...
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In Search Of A Business Model
“Sounds good, but… how are you going to make money?” If you’ve ever pitched your business, asked for funding or applied to a startup contest, you’ve heard this question more than once. And unless...
View ArticleBackup Your GMail, You Might Just Lose It (Due to Google Absurd Policies And...
This is a story about how I lost access to my GMail account and never got it back, losing all the data. Hope it serves as a warning prompting you to backup your emails. It started early this month when...
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Life And Death of An Entrepreneur
If entrepreneurship is a state of mind that forces you to follow your dreams no matter what, Roman Kala was a true entrepreneur, probably the biggest I know. The story begins 84 years ago, in a small...
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Top 5 OpenReaktor Talks of 2012
OpenReaktor, once a small monthly tech meetup held in a Warsaw-based mansion, gradually came out as a major IT event in Central & Eastern Europe gathering a crowd of startups, investors, IT...
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Driving Cinema Attendance Through Personalization — a few words about my...
Last week I gave the most important talk of my life. I was lucky enough to present on stage at CinemaCon 2013 in Las Vegas to hundreds of cinema officials. The presentation was a huge success and we’ve...
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Matcha and the Failure of Consumer Movie Discovery Startups
Matcha.TV just got bought by Apple for $1.5m. Never heard of them? Not surprising. It is (was) one of the many TV and movie discovery startups which planned to secretly take over the second screen by...
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3 Lessons Learned From Selling Tech To Corporate Customers
TL;DR: Don’t sell tech to corporate customers. *** Getting proper traction for a b2b solution is way different from growth hacking a consumer service. After a year and a half of struggling to sell our...
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5 Best OpenReaktor Talks of 2013
Just as I did in 2012, I prepared a list of 5 best talks of 2013 from OpenReaktor, monthly event I organize in our startup mansion in Warsaw. Enjoy! 5. Running Global But Keeping It Small—8 Lessons...
View ArticleThe Rise Of Polish Startups
When we raised a seed round for Filmaster from a German fund HackFwd in Spring of 2011, we were one of the first Polish startups to work with a foreign investor. Traditionally, Web companies in Poland...
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5 Best OpenReaktor Talks of 2014
Just as I did in 2012 and again in 2013, I have prepared a list of 5 best talks of 2014 from OpenReaktor monthly meetups I organize together with Karolina in our startup mansion in Warsaw. Enjoy! 5....
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Hustle
Call me a conspiracy theory maniac, but I always felt like everyone is watching me. I imagined people waiting for my failure, so that they can proclaim their personal little victory and say “I knew...
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5 Best OpenReaktor Talks of 2015
As some of you know, I’ve been organizing tech meetups called OpenReaktor in the Warsaw-based startup mansion I co-founded since June 2011. It’s already become a tradition that in December I’m listing...
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Why Polish Startups Fail?
I made a lot of mistakes when running my startup. I also meet hundreds of Polish entrepreneurs each year and listen to their stories. Based on those insights I wrote an article about why (Polish)...
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Are you a technical co-founder looking to pivot? Read this.
A great technical team comes up with amazing technology. The original business model fails. They immediately start looking for another application. Stop. Don’t do it. Read this instead: The Single...
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