13Sep 2017 by Alexandru Selejan No Comments

Startup the beginnings: Techsylvania and Codiax

This is the second article from “Startups: The beginnings series”, where we try to bring to light the entrepreneurial journey of successful companies from Cluj. In the first edition we had the opportunity to talk with Visitor Analytics (link). Today we had the privilege of talking with Vlad Ciurca, who is the co-founder of Techsylvania. Vlad has shared with us his journey of creating one of the most successful Tech Conferences in Romania. Hello Vlad it’s very nice to have you here. Could you please tell us a bit about you and your background? I’ve finished economical studies and specialized in marketing. After that I have worked in various fields. One of the most significant ones, also as length, was in operations and warehousing at Nokia. I was responsible…

Visitor Analytics: The beginnings

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We started Startup of the Week interviews and the startup community asked for more. So here we are, with the first article from a new series named Startups: The Beginnings! We want to capture the early days of a successful startup, the crucial steps that come after the idea and the (needed) commitment to execute. There are a bunch of articles and speakers that describe their journey and startup life, however for various reasons, they tend to jump over this really early stage. The purpose of Startups: The Beginnings is to expose as many early stage stories as we can, in order to provide a few advices for young entrepreneurs. Of course, we are not trying to hand over a set steps or a framework. A trend or pattern will…

Innovation Labs

Pre-accelerators

We had a chat with Roxana Rugina, in order to find out more about Innovation Labs. Roxana Rugina is the CEO & Co-founder of Simplon Romania and a Program Manager at Innovation Labs Cluj. “Simplon develops educational programs around digital competencies, programming and entrepreneurship. On the entrepreneurship side, we have developed the partnership with Innovation Labs, for the past two years and we have events all year round, inside the universities and out. The main aim of these events, is to prepare the students for the program.” About Innovation Labs Innovation Labs is a pre-acceleration program for students, who want to learn more about entrepreneurship, how to build a product and how to create a start-up. It is only aimed towards tech founders. “It provides them with principles about…