Jacek Perkowski

With the support of the European Edtech Alliance, we are launching the EdTech Ukraine Association, a public association of educational technology companies in Ukraine. The goal of the Association is to create a common space for cooperation and exchange of experience between Ukrainian and international EdTech companies. It also provides access to international grant and investment resources, educational and acceleration programmes. We invite you to the presentation of Edtech Ukraine Associate! WHEN: 17.10.24  Start at 14.00 for registration, networking and time to take a photo WHERE? Kooperativ, 4th floor The presentation will be an important platform for networking, sharing ideas and finding new opportunities for cooperation. The presence of key industry players and international partners will open new perspectives for the EdTech sector in Ukraine. The event will feature a presentation of the Association and speeches by special guests, including speakers from Denmark and Estonia, the Chairperson of the European EdTech Alliance, and the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine for digital development, digital transformations and digitalization, which emphasizes the importance of government support for the development of the industry. The event will conclude with a discussion with representatives of EdTech Estonia and EdTech Ukraine, and then informal networking. WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN THE EDTECH UKRAINE CO-CREATION PROCESS. Registration for the event is required.  Registration: https://lnkd.in/d9guz37g #EdtechUkraine #cooperation #EEA #partnership #launch

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Hello! Congratulations on start of the business season, summer is behind us. Let me take you back to my summer. I had a lot to be proud of in August. Ovkuse, starting from !ZERO audience, reached 1/3 of the Monthly Audience of closed Cookpad Russia business in a short time. New businesses are bringing profits. For instance, Online School is giving increasing sales: - We reached milestone a large, round number of Paying clients. - We added more value and features over the summer: AI assistant, folders for bookmarks - Time on site is steadily growing, it was above the market, and it's taking off even further each month. Retaining customers' attention is an important metric - Based on customer development, we launched a new format - video recipes, something like Stories, Shorts. An additional bonus is that we're increasing the share of young audience. - Improvements on the recipe page have increased the engagement of less active users and newcomers. Now an interesting, challenging time is coming! Requiring me as an experienced ship captain to navigate an ocean of issues: - High season - Maintain team spirit - Complete Roadmap 2024. The low-hanging fruit is long gone. Lack of time - the most valuable resource. - Control expenses! (High local inflation rate) → Reach break-even point As an overall result, not to fall into the valley of disappointment. If you're interested, support me with a reaction, write any relevant advice in comments. Thank you in advance

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Planning to enter the Polish market or already operating here? Join this upcoming webinar to learn how to leverage digital tools and tailor your strategy for success in Poland's media landscape! 📅 When: November 6th, 11:00 💼 For: marketers, product managers, and project managers What will be covered? ✅ An overview of Poland's media landscape, including key trends and differences from the Belarusian market. ✅ Digital tools for each stage of the sales funnel. ✅ Key cultural and economic factors to consider. ✅ Unique insights on e-commerce in Poland. Register now via the link: https://lnkd.in/d2GMBFZD

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I had the privilege to participate in a meeting with Margrethe Vestager and several Ukrainian and Polish startups. Discussion was resolved on two main issues: 🛑 what barriers do Polish and Ukrainian startups face in the EU 🚀 what changes in EU regulations are needed so that Polish and Ukrainian enterprises can prosper and develop better As we witness the rapid technological advancements in the US, it's imperative for Europe to accelerate its pace to stay competitive. Here are my key suggestions for the European Commission to narrow the technological gap and foster a thriving innovation ecosystem: 1️⃣Streamline Funding Procedures:Simplify the funding processes and reduce the bureaucratic hurdles. By making it easier and faster for startups to access funds, we can drive innovation and support budding entrepreneurs more effectively. 2️⃣Incentivize investment in Startups:Encourage I ndividuals with access to capital to fund startups through attractive incentives. Tax breaks, matching investments, and other financial benefits can stimulate private investment in the tech sector. 3️⃣Promote Technical Knowledge:Launch social awareness to inspire and educate individuals about the importance of investing in their technical skills. Highlighting success stories and offering accessible to easy funding to quality bootcamps. 4️⃣ Support #ReskillingandUpskilling: Provide incentives for companies to invest in the continuous development of their workforce. Subsidies, grants, and recognition programs can encourage businesses to prioritize reskilling and upskilling their talents, ensuring they remain competitive in the technology driven market. 🙏Together, these steps can create a more dynamic and resilient tech ecosystem in Europe, fostering innovation and bridging the gap with the US Thank you Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge for this invitation.

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How does a media agency prepare for their peak season campaigns? In this episode of our #PerformanceTalk series Grzegorz Smyka gave me his insights from the perspectives of GroupM Poland who are developing smart advertising solutions and technologies that are shaping the future of media: ✅ Don’t plan your budget permanently. Flexible budgets allow you to increase your ad spent when opportunities arise during the season. ✅ With increased budget spend, you will need a larger number of assets. AI can assist your creation to save you time. ✅ Q5 offers a lot of cheaper ad space available. Keep it in mind and in your media plans to be the first one there. #PeakSeason #Q5 #MarketingBudget

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#BREAKING: I just received the 2023 results for UAB #Bifinity, owned by Binance founder #ChangpengZhao, in #Lithuania. Revenue decreased by about 50% to EUR 229.8m, but the EUR 42.9m loss from the previous year was replaced by a EUR 105m net profit. Bifinity, which appointed a new CEO, Jonas Jünger, last year, also reported paying EUR 30m in taxes in Lithuania over the past 12 months. In the last three years, they have paid approximately EUR 50m in income taxes alone. A link to my interview with Jonas is in the comments.

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On October 24, #FoundersConnect will take place — an event for founders, ex-founders, and managers planning to embark on the startup founder journey.🚀 🔥 During a fireside chat, I'll be talking with Krzysztof Domaradzki - Forbes Polska journalist, about how artificial intelligence is transforming the modern world and the opportunities it creates for startups and product creators. Other speakers at the event include: Piotr Orzechowski, CEO of Intermedica, Pawel Osterreicher, CEO & Co-founder of Respo.Vision, Artur 🤖 Kurasinski, Co-founder of AImmersive and TREBIT. The theme of the event is "Founder. Product. AI." It will focus on the opportunities AI development presents to founders and the challenges they face in effectively using the technology’s potential. It's also a great chance to network with founders and investors looking for interesting projects to fund. 🌐 For more details, visit: www.foundersconnect.pl #AI #founders #startups #AIdevelopment #businessangels #investing

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Our friend Bartosz Majewski from Casbeg has written a book and it has arrived to our office: "101 Techniques for Managers: A Guide for Entrepreneurs and Managers" (translated from Polish; not the original title). We've just had a quick browse, but we're excited to read it thoroughly and share its wealth of concrete information, tips, and tricks with our team. All this knowledge is based on his extensive experience. Special thanks to Jacek Bartczak for sending us a copy and keeping us in mind! #Leadership #ManagementSkills #BusinessStrategy

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With record breaking temperatures and droughts hitting ever larger areas, would it be possible to talk about economies while ignoring climate change? In the newest SGcHat podcast, the time has come to talk seriously about preventing the worst. This is the first episode in a series of Green Economy. Professor Szymon Malinowski, PhD, climatologist and atmospheric physicist from the University of Warsaw, chairman of the Committee on Climate Crisis of the PAS, and SGH Professor Dorota Niedziółka, PhD, who specialises in energy markets, security, renewable energy resources and the green economy, share their knowledge with listeners and engage themselves into discussion moderated by Mrs. Karolina Cygonek, editor-in-chief of "Gazeta SGH" . Questions tackled were the following: What changes are at stake? What needs to be done and on what scale? Is climate change a reversible process or can it only be slowed down? To what extent are the measures against climate change sufficient in Poland, EU and worldwide? And how should we overcome the belief that human activity does not actually have a major impact on climate change? We know that it is fashionable to be green. But what about costs? I encourage you to listen to this fascinating discussion Spotify: https://lnkd.in/duby6CmH

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Looking for Partners We are actively working on a partnership program and building relationships with companies in IT, e-commerce, SaaS, EdTech, marketing, design, SEO, and other business sectors in the Ukrainian and international markets. We understand that by joining forces, we become stronger and more competitive. For us, partnership is not just about a percentage of sales. The goal of our partnership program is to provide you and your clients with values that will help enhance your product, increase customer loyalty, and raise the average ticket size. It is a joint effort for development, growth, and expanding each other's customer base. How We Can Be Useful We focus on promoting complex services for businesses in IT, manufacturing, logistics, and other fields. Experts and business owners who have created a strong product and need growth in digital come to us. Our expertise lies in content marketing (website content, blog management, SEO optimization), comprehensive social media marketing (#LinkedIn, #Instagram, #Facebook, #Telegram), strategy development, and operational process management in companies. We can work with you on projects by providing comprehensive digital marketing services or as a White Label. Values We Offer You and Your Clients 🔹Free express content audits for your clients for a month 🔹Consulting in content marketing 🔹Joint marketing activities (placement of logos, articles, and reviews, expert appearances, joint service package advertising, etc.) 🔹Educational events (webinars and training sessions to strengthen the team, free participation in our proprietary intensives, useful materials and marketing templates for the team, etc.) 🔹Special bonuses for recommendations throughout the entire time we work with a client (and we usually work for years). If you are interested in joint development, write to us, and we will discuss partnership opportunities. #marketing #marketingdigital #digitalmarketing #digital #smm #promotion #promote #promotions #b2b #ITbusiness #webdesign #webstudio  #business #маркетинг #socialmediamarketing #socialmedia #copywriting #DevOps #Saas #IT #linkedinpromotion #mediamarketing #ArtificialIntelligence #Partners #logistics #SEO #website #blog #AI #partnership #bonussystem

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🚨 Exciting News: Two Dots Consulting is Coming to Riga, Latvia! 🚨 Ready to scale your startup and create local success stories? Don't miss this opportunity: Our bootcamp together with Latvian Startup Association Startin.LV is filling up fast! (Link in comments) Both Priel and I, have a track record speaks for itself: Over 2,000 European startups have benefited from our unique approach. 👉 Want to connect? Book a meeting with us now. Join us in Riga and unlock your startup's full potential! 🚀 #LatvianStartups #ScaleUp #TwoDots #StartupsBootcamp

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4 years & 5 months. Tax office blocked our accounts & filed criminal charges Our business in Poland with 650k clients went down from one day to another, when tax office has frozen our bank accounts and did a raid of our offices in Poznan. Local manager was detained, all documents, data and devices were seized, every employee, contractor and business partner was questioned several times by police and tax administration. Criminal charges were made for tax evasion and tax fraud. 4 years and 5 months it took for the court of first instance to examine the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and evidence and to decide that we did everything according to the law and no financial loss occurred whatsoever. The judge further pointed out the abuse of power by the tax administration, as it was the same tax authority who during a tax audit found no irregularities, and at the same time reported a financial crime that was the base cause for raiding and blocking our successful company, causing financial & reputational damages to us & our business. Loss of trust from the market & customers. Loss of profit, loss of business opportunity. If they did not stop us, today we would be serving over 2M customers with their electronics & smartphone needs, as well as being the largest independent mobile operator in Poland and probably in Europe. Now, what is next?

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Digital Out-of-Home advertising in Poland is experiencing rapid growth, driven by innovative technological solutions and advanced data utilization in campaigns. According to #IGRZ, DOOH sales soared to 160.20 million PLN in 2023, marking an impressive 49.3% increase from the previous year. This surge propelled its market share to 24.7% in 2023, reaching a peak of 28.1% in Q4. In contrast, Classic Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising saw a more modest growth, reaching 447.62 million PLN, up by 9.4% from 2022. 📈💼🌟 #DigitalOOH #PolandAdvertising

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90% of people think business scaling is about sales: But this is not the full story. I have recently had a keynote on this topic: At one of the top CEE conferences by Startup Disrupt. Proper business scaling is about: 1. Strategy: Have clear mission, vision and purpose. Communicate it effectively internally and externally. Structure strategy at 4 key levels: ⚡ Corporate - overall business strategy ⚡ Business - strategy of business lines ⚡ Functional - strategy of various departments ⚡ Operational - strategy of day-to-day operations These should be formulated in line with the key principles of business growth: 🚀 Business agility 🚀 Fast adaptation to changes 🚀 Culture of innovation 🚀 Fast and data-driven decision making 2. Sales and Marketing Take advantage of all outreach methods: A) Warm - direct and to audience (posting content) B) Cold - direct and to audience (ads) Work with all lead getters: Your team Client referrals Marketing agencies Affiliate marketing and partnerships Find 1 method that works and double down. Then reinvest profits to expand into other areas. 3. Finance The key role of every founder is to make sure: 💵 the company does not run out of cash 💵 every penny is used efficiently Make sure to track your numbers: As well as optimize your costs. Growth at all costs is not sustainable. You are in business to be profitable. 4. Leadership and HR Learn how to efficiently: Hire, onboard, train and engage your talent. One of the key roles of leadership is: ♻ retaining the top talent ♻ making sure you motivate them well enough Otherwise the best people will leave. 5. AI Teach your people how to use AI. Motivate them to use AI. Implement AI tools that will improve efficiency. This is not an exhaustive list, but core points. Scaling involves juggling many areas at once. It is tough, but you need to master these. As the more difficult it is: The harder it will be for competition to get ahead. ♻️ Repost so others can learn this too. P.S. Feel free to add more points in the comments.

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🔊 ASK FOR A REFERENCE 🔊 A year and a half ago, at the Ū Hub | Startup Community in Poland pitch event in Warsaw, I met Eugene Sertukov and heard his pitch for the AIstats project. The pitch was unclear to most of the audience, but it perfectly aligned with my understanding of the current state of European football as a mass product and the opportunities that this project had to change it. 🤔 I immediately lost interest in the other participants' pitches. We continued our conversation during and after the event, agreeing to discuss the product further. Gradually, my involvement in the project deepened, and I joined as a co-founder. For me personally, this was a significant risk, but it didn’t matter much, as this venture combined my two main passions: entrepreneurship and football. 👷‍♂️ After a year of working together, we began to appreciate and realize that professional skills are secondary to learning ability and passion for football. In our recent hires, we've seen how crucial this is and the difference it makes when colleagues live and breathe the game, just like I do. ⚽ I’m asking my network to repost and forward this message to all IT specialists who understand that football is like a small war and take the game seriously. We would be happy to connect with such professionals, even if we don’t yet have an immediate need for their help. 🏆 In football, as in life, the greatest victories come not from talent alone but from the heart, determination, and teamwork. 🏆

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🚀Calling All International #Startups! Join Warsaw Booster 2024! Are you an innovative startup ready to make a difference? #WarsawBooster is here to accelerate your growth and bring your ideas to life in the heart of Europe! Why Join Warsaw Booster? ✅ Tailored Mentorship: Benefit from personalized guidance from industry experts. ✅ Extensive Networking: Connect with other innovators and key players in the market. ✅ City Collaboration: Work with city officials and access valuable municipal data. ✅ Global Reach: Get support to expand your project internationally. ✅ Exciting Rewards: Compete for a chance to win cash prizes totaling 90,000 PLN! This Year's Focus Areas: 1. Safety and Crisis Management 2. Education, Culture, and Tourism 3. Social Assistance and Integration 4. Urban Agriculture and Food 5. Environment and Sustainable Development 6. Transport and Communication 7. Health and Medical Care How to Apply? 🔔 Submit your project by July 31, 2024 (EDIT: August, 11) at https://lnkd.in/d5pgaYGc Don't miss this opportunity to grow your startup and make a real impact on urban development! Apply now and join the leaders of innovation in Warsaw! CR to Warsaw Booster More information: www.warsawbooster.online PS Would you like to hit the next gear in your career and business? I invite you to #mentoring with me 😊 ⏩ DM me and we will arrange a conversation. I work in mentoring and coaching, underpinned by a business background so that you can achieve your goals.

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There are too many data sources when it comes to tech meetups & events in Warsaw. Tried to gather a curated list of those here, on LinkedIn. But wasn't very effective. I'm overwhelmed with newsletters and want to provide constant access to information. That's why, I've built this calendar with Luma 👉 I'm adding selected events I'm attending or I would attend. 👉 Sometimes I will send out the email summary to all calendar subscribers 👉 You can submit your event yourself! Both those on Luma and from external sources. I'll get pinged to verify and accept it. See yourself what you can find there: Data Nomads Club by Vadim Nazarov | ML in PL | Warsaw AI by Paweł Gora | Perspektywy Women in Tech | Data Science Summit | AI Creative Fest by Tomek Graszewicz | AI Summit Poland by Przemyslaw Gamdzyk

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