Entrepreneurship

The lack of previous experience, the competition and the skills (soft and hard ones) that companies look for are the biggest concerns of the new generation, which is trying to combine the passion for what they study with the needs as well as the high labor market requirements, the Entrepreneurship and Careers Panorama heard on Friday at the Athens Concert Hall.

Vestbee published the 'VC Transactions In CEE Report - 2022', revealing that VC investments in the CEE region exceeded €5.9B in total funding across more than 1100 transactions. 

Approximately one in two Cypriots considers it easy to start a business in Cyprus, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Cyprus Report 2021/2022.

BELGRADE - The number of startups operating in Serbia was up by over 20 pct in 2022, and they employed over 2,000 people in total, according to Startup Scanner 2023, an annual report released by the Digital Serbia initiative.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation Jelena Begovic said on Tuesday it was very important that the Digital Serbia initiative had made Serbian startups visible on the international Dealroom platform, with around 250 Serbian startups registered there to date.

Turkish technology startups drew a total investment of $1.8 billion in 2022 despite a 35 percent decrease in global startup investments, increasing expectations for 2023.

According to a report by StartupCentrum, 322 Turkish startups received an investment of $1.8 billion in 2022, slightly up from $1.6 billion the previous year.

The current economic climate poses obvious challenges for any business, and especially for new small businesses. The country entered a technical recession with two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP, and more than 80 percent of small business owners anticipate a recision. This is in the midst of 40-year high inflation rates that are impacting business.

Amazon Web Services has launched AWS FinTech Accelerator, an equity-free program that aims to identify, engage, and support the growth of high-potential FinTech startups.

Based on interviews with Kosovo women entrepreneurs, the five key challenges faced during the pandemic included a fall in customer purchases, the need to remodel the business, the threat to existence, and decreased business size.

Ljubljana – The investment agency Spirit has announced that over 12,000 companies had been launched through its SPOT support programme for entrepreneurs since 2018, while more than 1,400 startups were incubated by its SIO programme between 2019 and 2021.