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Hello LinkedIn community, My name is Andrei Ivanou. I am a former Associated Partner of Civitta and former Co-founder of an IT company called Techvice. Former, because this is how Civitta company or its affiliated legal entities (Mediapark, Singleton and others) treat their M&As - just run down a business and get rid of competitors.  I can't have it all in just one post, so I've decided to make a series of articles revealing the way they work with ordinary people, treat minor shareholders, distribute budget, make decisions, cheating with clients and much more.  I am well aware of the fact that I will never recover what was stolen, so my goal is to shed light on the truth for the benefit of potential clients, current employees, and future prospects.  For current clients, employees and partners it is a perfect opportunity to stop, have a look around and rethink everything that is happening. Maybe you are dealing with the wrong company. If anyone is interested, please, feel free to DM me. I am absolutely sure I am not the only one, so If have had a similar experience feel free to send me a message, maybe together we have more chances for justice.  #BusinessEthics #Transparency #CorporateAccountability #IT #Advisory  #Innovation #Funding #Impact

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If you want to have a good talk over health tech, the future of pharma, and digital solutions in medicine and you also attend Latitude59 or you live in Tallinn drop a line here or in the event app! I'll be there representing our company, Targenta Ltd. But what is Targenta?... 👉 Our why In the last decade, medical services have diversified, involving both public and private sectors. However, this diversification has led to challenges due to the lack of integration and coordination among services, as patients often use a mix of private and public facilities, and communication between their different physicians and pharmacists is not guaranteed. The frequent failure to establish secure and seamless intra- and inter-organization communication channels has resulted in medical professionals unintentionally neglecting each other's insights. This lack of collaboration has given rise to conflicting treatment and medication plans, creating a complex web of challenges for patients. Prescribing medications without a shared understanding of a patient's case among different physicians can be highly dangerous. The widely prevalent fragmented healthcare raises the risk of adverse drug interactions, duplicate prescriptions, and conflicting treatment plans, posing serious health threats. Without a comprehensive view of the patient's medical history, there's a heightened potential for unintended side effects, compromised efficacy, and overall confusion in managing the patient's health. 👉 Our Solutions for Healthcare Challenges At Targenta, we've engineered a suite of innovative solutions to address the complex challenges facing medical professionals today. Our Tailored Treatment Options provide personalized diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations, streamlining decision-making and reducing case-specific research times by approximately 20%. With the Medical Team Dashboard System, healthcare providers gain secure, remote collaboration capabilities, enhancing overall patient care effectiveness and cutting administrative costs. Additionally, our PharmaSolv system ensures medication safety by analyzing and optimizing schedules, preventing potential drug interactions, and redundant prescriptions. Check out our services here: https://lnkd.in/d_d6vNDm #startup #tallinn #estonia #latitude59 #innovation #businessangels #venturecaptalists #MVP #preseed #healthtech #medtech #digitalhealth #targenta

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Looking forward to Digitoo AI & Business Conference tomorrow! What I am most looking forward to is pannel AI & Byznys with: Miroslav Uďan, Founder of Shoptet and CEO of Out of Dark Martin Cigler - Seyfor Tomas Havryluk - exAlza Ondrej Fryc - Reflex Capital Will summarize my learnings in the next post after the event Check out more great events in this Google Sheet: https://lnkd.in/ePK3_sa2

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Perfect but not done vs. not perfect but done - what do you choose? 🧐 Recently, I was a speaker at an online session from Top Rated Club - a place where entrepreneurs and freelancers grow and exchange experiences - and shared my thoughts on this topic. Do you spend all your time striving for perfection on tasks that never finish and try to do all by yourself? I understand you pretty well. I used to have the “I’d rather do it myself” type of thinking. But with the years of entrepreneurship, I have learned to delegate, and here is why it is so essential: 📍 Delegation is more effective than doing everything yourself. 📍 Delegating tasks enables your team members to become experts in their areas. 📍 A list of things to STOP doing will have a bigger impact on your success than a list of things to START doing. 📍 As you perform your assistant's tasks, consider whether you are currently earning the salary of a CEO or as an assistant and whether you need it. 📍 The CEO is about the vector of movement. The COO is about the daily work rhythm; these are different people. If you play both roles, you won't do either well. 📍 It is better to build a high-quality hiring process from the beginning than to spend more time-solving difficult issues later. Do you agree with these statements, or do they cause internal resistance? Let me know in the comments if you have any questions about delegation or how to implement these strategies in your own business. Thanks, Top Rated Club, for the opportunity to participate and discuss such an important topic ❤✨ #management #ceodiary #delegationrules #leadlikeapro

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This week’s podcast episode is very special to us because it features Blendrit Elezaj, co-founder of Tactica and GIG Education. Tactica has been our digital marketing partner for quite some time now, and our cooperation has been outstanding. In this episode, we discuss global teams, remote work, sales, and job market trends, focusing on the Balkans and Kosovo. Blendrit told us about his company’s journey. It originated from a small country and later successfully expanded to the point that it now has 75 U.S. clients. Their work is done remotely, and they even set up an in-house academy to train new employees. We all agreed that working with global partners is the absolute best solution. The price is fair, and the service quality is high. Take it from me: I’ve been partnering with Tactica from Kosovo, developers in India, and AI developers in Ukraine, and their work matches, if not surpasses, the quality found anywhere else in the world. However, we also took a critical approach to job market trends. With such globalized work, employee job hopping is on the rise, posing a significant challenge for business owners. Listen to the full episode to hear more about investing opportunities and the diaspora’s effects in Kosovo, a hidden gem of entrepreneurship in the Balkans.

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Every new and not so new PR person needs to read this piece by Cate Lawrence, then they need to read it again and share with all their tech clients and founders. For real, when the people who decide what gets published provide detailed instructions and feedback, it’s best to take it seriously. TLDR: Stop word 🥗s, show don’t tell, provide sufficient lead time for interviews, limit self aggrandizing and over quoting, and have a useful logo or image for quick sharing.

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🚀 We are part of Silo Teams 1,16M Pre Seed Round! 🚀 It is difficult to find and attract highly qualified tech talent. Retaining them is an even bigger challenge. Silo Team solves the problem of high turnover among developers and facilitates the onboarding, offboarding and retention of developers to manage the entire lifecycle of a software developer on a single platform. That's why I'm thrilled about Silo Team's recent round. Founded by Rasmus Stjernström and Ida Stjernström, Silo Team has just received a huge boost to drive its growth with an 1,16M investment. Here's why this matters: ➡ Developer turnover costs companies big time, anywhere from $67,000 to $180,000 per developer! ➡ Silo Team is tackling this with an advanced onboarding tool, aiming to cut those costs dramatically. ➡ Looking ahead: Silo Team aims to evolve into a comprehensive platform that enhances the entire developer lifecycle by leveraging AI to streamline knowledge management and automate key workflows. The round was co-led by Pitchdrive | Early-stage VC 🚀 and Fuel Ventures 🚀 and futher backed by Genesis Ventures, StartupIst Ventures and further Angels like Michael Proszynski, Ferdinand Dietrich and us! We are very excited to be part of the mission to significantly reduce developer turnover and play a pivotal role in tech development. Marco Raggl | Patrick Funke | Laura Raggl | Julian Sachs #investments #venturecapital #startups ___ ROI VENTURES 

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Today I had the pleasure to meet with one of our long-term collaborators, MP Aura Salla. Thank you for the good points you raised about the importance of seeing the European talent gap in a more holistic way! Coders are of course important, but also the whole society must support acquiring and keeping talents - and their families. I would like to add also the importance of building competences for developing and applying technologies in new emerging fields of research and business, to increase the impact of research, to transform business models and to boost innovation. So: technology isn't only about technology, but about how the whole society organises its structures and systems. #technology #competencedevelopment #RDI #digitaltransformation

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Karol Wieteska, many thanks for demystifying the plug-and-play approach when it comes to loyalty software integrations! 🔥 (the link to the full webinar recording in the first comment). The statement, "Let's choose the loyalty software with out-of-the-box integrations and plugins; this will speed up implementation," is one of the most common misleading assumptions made by teams who want to implement a loyalty program in larger organizations. Plugins usually work if you have a small organization, a small tech stack, and a simple use case. They will not work with an omnichannel stack based on a complex system architecture. Be wiser than your competitors. Use API-first pieces and composable architecture to make your loyalty tech stack future-proof. Deliver faster. Create a smoother customer experience.

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Two interesting days at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit (#CDS2024) just ended, where innovators, activists and world leaders - past and current - gathered to discuss threats to democracies and solutions for preserving them. Some takeaways: There were great pitches by six tech entrepreneurs from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, creating solutions of both national and global relevance. It was excellent to see Ukraine's Anton Tarasyuk win a prize for Mantis Analytics, which blends clients' proprietary data (e.g. office/asset locations) with real-time, open-source intelligence and AI to strengthen their resilience and growth. Mantis Analytics is already keeping people in Ukraine safer, born strong from its unfortunate "experiential advantage" of Russia's invasion. The launch of this year's Democracy Perception Index (https://lnkd.in/dXDptc-M), which measures the perceived importance and performance of democracy in 54 countries, showed the significant differences in perception of global powers China, the EU, UN and US. The Media Viability Accelerator (MVA) team will explore integrating these national democracy perceptions into the platform to chart them against *performance* indicators such as the RSF World Press Freedom Index, INFORM Risk Index and some of the World Bank indicators. It could add perspective to independent media's understanding of what creates enabling environments for them to thrive. It was great to talk with Ginny Badanes from Democracy Forward at Microsoft - our valued partners in the MVA - about their work to fight disinformation and deepfakes through the C2PA initiative (https://c2pa.org/), which creates content 'nutrition' labels embedded in metadata. Something to explore connecting to our work at Internews, including our Ads for News inclusion lists of trusted, local news media. Thanks to the Alliance of Democracies Foundation for these excellent perspectives and discussions.

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Are you going to #freshortrash next monday in Bratislava? If so, here are some insights about attendees that I found while preparing for the event. If not, maybe you should - the panel discussion will be packed with insights about bootstrapping your startup with inspiring founders. And if you want to know who is who when the networking starts and, like me, prefer to work with spreadsheet over attendees list on LinkedIn, let me know and I'll send you the complete list including 👉 breakdown of areas of expertise/interest per attendee to filter by 👉 summaries of posts and engagements 👉 possible ice breakers to start a conversation and more..

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Summary: Impact CEE 2024 As the curtains close on this year’s thrilling Impact CEE event in Poznań, it’s time to reflect on the groundbreaking discussions and the remarkable surge in networking that has undoubtedly left a lasting impression. This year, Impact CEE has been a crucible for ideas, driving forward discussions on the ever-evolving role of #AI across various sectors — from governmental insights to its implications across diverse industries. Artificial Intelligence was the leitmotif of the conference, touching on how AI’s integration into everyday tools — through text, image, and sound — enhances our capability to solve complex problems multimodally. The latest iteration, OpenAI GPT-4o or Google Gemini, was a focal point, showcasing its ability to foster multimodal learning and problem-solving that transcends traditional boundaries. Amidst these technological advancements, the conversation inevitably turned towards the AI Act or eIDAS in Europe, raising critical questions about regulatory frameworks' timing and sufficiency as AI intertwines deeply with global economies and productivity landscapes. Is it too late for regulations? Or is the global economy poised to leverage AI, potentially consuming the market as we know it? As AI promises to expand the job market, the conference underscored the pressing need for robust educational frameworks and business support to harness AI’s potential responsibly while mitigating risks such as demographic shifts and climate change. The conference also spotlighted emerging trends in healthtech and sporttech, where hybrid solutions and AI-enhanced mobile apps are poised to significantly improve quality of life for next generations. The event was a testament to the power of connectivity, with a multitude of new contacts and future topics emerging from intense networking sessions. The last two days have indeed marked a pivotal moment for many attendees, now proudly reflected in the flurry of LinkedIn connections celebrating new opportunities and collaborations. As we move forward, let's continue to explore how technology can help us navigate and shape the world, ensuring we make a substantial #impact. Daria Auguscik Katarzyna Jakubowska Justyna Grzyl Lukasz Gąsiorowski Daniel Blumczynski Joanna Pieńkowska-Olczak Tomasz Batko Patrick Trinkler Renata Żukowska Marcin Gortat Tomasz Wozniak Bartłomiej Nocoń Michał Macierzyński, PhD Pawel Placzke Anne Applebaum

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📍 Two exciting days of 0100 Conference CEE 2024 in Prague Zero One Hundred Conferences (PE & VC Platform) came to an end: 💥 2024 & 2025 vintages will be very good for investors - Marco Natoli European Investment Fund (EIF) 💥 Talent, #technology, #innovation - the fundamentals of the coming growth of the CEE region - Edgar Kolesnik Abris Capital Partners 💥 A 🍌-shaped (J-curve, reversed direction should have been, but couldn't find it 😉 ) future for the region in terms of LPs coming in - David Schäfer Munich Private Equity Partners 💥 Play your strengths (relations, being closer to founders...) when dealing with the competition from outside the region - Roland Dennert Cipio Partners 💥 #Technology is horizontal & it's the most lucky sector - Krzysztof Konopinski, FRM Spire Capital 🎯 Ask yourself a question: do I have enough #technology (...and #CEE) in my investment portfolio? Michal Wojdyla Innova Capital - thanks for moderating our panel on Technology Focus in CEE: Growing Opportunities in ICT. Questions to the point‼️ And for sharing a great perspective on #technology from Innova Capital that raised the biggest fund ever👏

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🚀 Are you a Ukrainian startup or scale-up developing cutting-edge solutions, services, or products? Check out funding opportunities from the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) #standwithukraine #UkrainianTech #Innovation #Startups #Scaleups #TechSolutions #TechProducts #TechServices #TechInnovation #TechDisruption #TechPioneers

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TAKE OFF YOUR SCARF! DISCRIMINATION AGAINST VISITING FANS! I’m glad that our topic “scarves in visiting stadiums” with Tomáš Martinec hasn’t been forgotten. Recently, a major Czech sport’s newspaper Deník Sport has taken interest in it, inspired and based on our article. Their journalistic investigation revealed that although many clubs officially ban visiting fans, regardless of whether they are families with children, pensioners, or hooligans, from entering the main stands with symbols of the visiting team in their visitor rules, in practice, they are more lenient during non-risk matches. However, this approach is legally wrong and discriminatory. Clubs should revise their visitor rules so that in exceptional cases, they can, mainly for security reasons, deny entry to certain fans, either completely or with certain symbols. They must be able to properly explain and justify their decision if such a fan disagrees. Will the visitor rules of Czech clubs change in this direction? And will fans of the visiting team, who do not fall into risky groups, be allowed to normally and decently support their team with a scarf around their necks on the main stands, if they are not sold out to season ticket holders or otherwise occupied by home fans? 🏟️🙏⚽️ #football #law #stadiums #discrimination

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🎯 We just Reached our Goal with our Fundraising Campaign on Dealflow–with still one day left to the close- 🎉 ⌛ Now, the Real Work Begins 🚀🛠️ It's been a tough few weeks. Running a startup is no easy task, and let me tell you, fundraising is even tougher. But, despite the ups and downs, our belief in what we're building at Tørn makes all the hard work worth it. Yes, the world is unpredictable, and yes, it can be scary sometimes. But we've got a team here that meets every challenge head-on. We put our hearts and minds together to find ways through any hurdle. I’m proud of how far we've come. Over the past four years, we've done a lot right at Tørn, and we've made our share of mistakes too. But we talk about these openly, learn from them, and use them to get better at what we do. We would keep setting big goals, trying out new ideas quickly, and learning fast from both successes and failures. We will hold each other accountable, but most importantly, we will continue to learn from every experience. Our fundraising campaign closes tomorrow. If you are interested, then there is still some space left for new investors. It’s been hard, but the real work starts now. We're excited about what’s next and we'd love for you to be a part of this journey. https://lnkd.in/di2gy4AS Thanks for all the support. We're ready to keep pushing forward, no matter what comes our way. #StartupLife #Fundraising #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #TechStartup #BusinessGrowth #StartupChallenges

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1 mln. EUR in 2 days – not a bad result for a new platform 😉 We are very happy with the results actually and are overwhelmed with the share number of clients who were interested to participate. For the ones who missed the opportunity – please be patient with us, as we plan to present more interesting projects in the near future. So what’s next? First, some well deserved rest for the team and the service providers – everyone put their best efforts this week 😊 Then we will help the issuer EIKA grupė and their financial representative to register the bonds with the central depository to receive the ISIN code and to put the bonds in the clients’ personal securities accounts for custody. In the meantime, there is plenty of things to be fixed / improve in terms of system infrastructure, as well as banking counterparties, who apparently withheld larger instant SEPA payments for some of our clients. We will also do some statistical analysis of Užupio PERSONOS bond issue and present it to our newsletter subscribers next week – I love data and transparency and I think that investors will also be very interested to learn more about the statistics. So far I can say that 166 investors invested in total, with an average ticket being 6024 EUR 🙂 Thanks again everyone and here’s to more fun in the future 🥂

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