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Send us Fan Mail Empowering consumers and producers to reduce through environmental footprint through business intelligence.  In a world in which we over-produce, over-consume, and dispose of things with ease, how can we empower consumers and producers to reduce their environmental footprint?  In this episode I chat with Eva Vucheva , founder of Impakt ID – a business intelligence tool that combin...

Send us Fan Mail She’s a mindset coach for top poker players throughout the world. She has been a meditation teacher for 7+ years, is an advisor to several tech startups, and has experience in corporate training having worked at companies such as IBM, Apple, Siemens, and AIG. Now, Karina Karagaeva’s startup, Mindset Design , is a platform that aims to help athletes incorporate science-based mental...

Send us Fan Mail No matter how talented a leader is, they aren’t going to go far if they don’t have a good team. This is the wisdom that Marian Temelkov , founder of Executive search firm Dynamis , shares with us in this conversation about the most powerful strengths a leader can have, and how to assess it. We discuss how he assesses a potential leader and what are the most important values a lead...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine you are the main character of your own movie. But not just the main actor. You’re also the producer and director of this movie. Close your eyes and visualize how you would tell this story. Will it be filled with adventure and suspense? Would your story be uplifting or depressing? Would your story have the power to change lives? This is the power that Stoyan Yankov instills...

Send us Fan Mail Is it possible for a charity to own a profitable software development company?  Well it is. The Bulgarian foundation ‘Give a Book’ owns 41% of the IT company Childish. It employs 30+ people and the company's focus is developing business and team-building web applications using the Python programming language. The model in which an IT company finances a foundation with its pro...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine you’re working as a driver in Bulgaria and one of your clients is an international business owner. After four days of chauffeuring him around, he invites you to lunch. After two hours of dialogue, he invites you to come to Vienna for a year and learn their business. So, you could come back to Bulgaria and open and manage their business in Bulgaria. Sounds like a fairy tale...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine if you could skip the hospital visit and use your phone to detect anomalies related to vascular conditions and oncology diseases. Sounds futuristic? Well, Bulgarian startup founder Georgi Kadrev is making this a reality with Kelvin Health. Kelvin Health is a clinical decision support tool that utilizes a mobile thermal imaging camera that captures the heat of the body, seg...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when you have a surplus of food? Do you just throw it out or is there a sustainable solution? Well today we’re chatting with Jane Dimitrova , a fascinating entrepreneur from Bulgaria who is helping tackle that problem by developing the first mobile app in Bulgaria to tackle food waste - Foodobox . Jane has a fascinating background having worked in Italy and Argentin...

Send us Fan Mail Remember when those guys who had slicked back hair and carried a bat paid you a visit about a debt you owed? You know debt collectors. Well times have changed and March Schillinger, founder of eCollect is transforming the way debt collection and account receivables takes place. eCollect is a fully digitalised receivables management FinTech startup with best-in-class AI and machine...

Send us Fan Mail I chatted with Boryana Levterova, co-founder of Infinity Toy Box. Infinity Toy Box is the first subscription service for kids where you can rent games, toys, and books. Prior to launching her startup, Boryana was working as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago. We dive into how she came up with Infinity Toy Box during maternity leave, what challenges they’ve fac...

Send us Fan Mail I chatted with French startup founder Alejandra Fernandez of Flywallet. Flywallet is an all-in-one digital wallet and flight aggregation tool that makes it easy for users to save monthly for future travel. But the platform does more than that. It keeps track of flights within your budget, and can help offset travel related carbon emissions when you book a flight. Alejandra is from...

Send us Fan Mail I knew very little about the field of AI data annotation until I chatted with Iva Gumnishka, co-founder of Humans in the Loop. Humans in the loop is a social enterprise that provides ethical human in the loop workforce solutions to power the AI industry.   Many companies that advertise their products as AI-driven are not entirely AI-driven. Some of them have real people working in...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine you’re in England and walk into a vegan restaurant. While looking at the menu, you notice that each dish shows its carbon footprint. You’re thinking about ordering a hamburger, but see that the beef burger’s carbon emissions are a whopping 3 kilos! Or, ten times the amount of the vegan alternative. Would you still order the beef burger? This episode isn’t about going vegan...

Send us Fan Mail Can branding and design create a deep emotional connection with an audience? Well according to Lucie Baratte, designer and co-founder of Logology, the answer is yes. Logology is a website where in 10 minutes, you can get a logo that you love all based on a brand discovery questionnaire to help figure out what you need. If you’re wanting to get a better understanding of how powerfu...

Send us Fan Mail “Introverts can be perfect sales people and better marketers, but the problem is that we get overwhelmed when socializing, but not because we can’t read social queues. But that we read too much of them.” This is from my conversation with Ana Bibikova, startup consultant and aspiring founder. If you’re on Twitter and in the startup community, chances are, you know Ana. But if you d...

Send us Fan Mail This is a rebroadcast of one of our most popular episodes - a chat with Andrius Rimkunas. Andrius is co-founder and Business Developer at Monimoto - a super easy to use anti-theft GPS tracker for motorcycles. Andrius entrepreneurial journey is quite remarkable as he has a background in IT, radio, marketing, and project management. He describes himself as a bit of a crazy person (a...

Send us Fan Mail This is a rebroadcast of one of our most popular episodes - a conversation with Dr. Monika Paule. Dr. Paule is a High-tech company founder of two innovative startups and is an Associated Professor & Technology Transfer expert in Academia. When not acting as the CEO at CasZyme, a company which aims to to develop innovative applications in the field of CRISPR based Molecular Too...

Send us Fan Mail Hey ICL fans. Today we’re chatting with Loic Alix-Brown, co-founder of Flick. Flick is an all-in-one Instagram scheduling, hashtag, and analytics tool. The journey of Flick is quite interesting as the initial MVP was created in two weeks and 2 weeks later they had 200 paying customers. If you think that is impressive, wait till you hear what the platform can do from a hashtag stan...

Send us Fan Mail Hey ICL fans. Today we’re chatting with Yannick Veys, co-founder of Hypefury. Hypefury is a powerful scheduling tool for social media, particularly Twitter. But before Yannick began growing Hypefury, he co-created a Dutch startup that was the Uber for service professionals and sold it. He also has successfully created multiple websites that bring in streams of Adsense income from...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s talk about social selling, specifically on LinkedIn with Laura Erdem from dreamdata.io. Laura is an Account Executive / B2B marketing influencer who grew her LinkedIn followers by 400% last year through social selling. And it all started with her sharing a customer story on a LinkedIn post. Well, someone by the name of Chris Walker commented on that post and it went viral. I...

Send us Fan Mail I chatted with Tzvete Doncheva, International Investor Relations for VC firm PropTech1. PropTech1 targets founders who are building innovative businesses in the real estate industry. Tzvete’s path to VC is a little different than most. Her career first started in media before breaking into VC. During our chat, we discuss barriers one has to overcome to get into a VC and why female...

Send us Fan Mail I chatted with Nicole Caba, the founder of Avvinue – the first pet travel booking engine. That’s right, a booking website for pet travel. With so many pet owners worldwide and each airline having its own set of restrictions when it comes to traveling with pets, Avvinue is bound for takeoff! If you’re a pet owner or just want to hear an interesting story about a wonderful idea that...

Send us Fan Mail I chat with Indiehacker Robert Balazsi who has built a no-code web scraping tool that has really taken off since he started building in public. Robert and I dive into juggling work and indiehacking, the importance of being your own customer, and leveraging building in public. If you’re trying to juggle work and building something on the side, then this episode is for you. Show hig...

Send us Fan Mail I chatted with Vidmantas Šiugždinis who is a very talented serial entrepreneur, investor, and lecturer. In a previous role as CEO of Lemon Fitness club, he grew a health company from 8 clubs in Lithuania to more than 30 clubs in 3 Baltic countries. Now he is creating MELP - a personalized employee benefits platform that provides a wide variety of choices for employees. In this cha...

Send us Fan Mail I chatted with bootstrap founders Daniel and Markus from Storyark. Storyark is a digital memory album for you and your family. It allows you to securely store photos, videos, audio, and text and share them with your family and close friends. They got this idea at Oktoberfest and, as you probably guessed, are also dads with small kids. In this chat, we learn about how they are boot...