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Croatia

Zagreb

The Founder Institute is the world’s largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, helping aspiring founders across the globe build enduring technology companies. In the Founder Institute's four-month, part-time program, promising startup entrepreneurs “learn by doing” and launch a company through structured training courses, practical business-building assignments, and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors. Plus, aspiring founders are not required to quit their day job to participate, so they can begin building a business around their ideas without putting their livelihood at risk. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 75 cities and 30 countries, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 1,112 companies, which have created over 10,000 new jobs. The company's mission is to “Globalize Silicon Valley” and build sustainable startup ecosystems that will create one million new jobs worldwide.

Zagreb

Since 2012, I lecture on Mirakul’s Internet Marketing Academy and Community Manager Academy, first professional education programs on digital marketing, community and content management. My key assignment is to educate on digital eco-system and integrated digital marketing strategies, as well as content marketing. Based on practical knowledge and best practices from around the world, Mirakul's educational programs are teaching not only how to start building corporate digital presence but also how to strategize, implement various platforms, formats and channels, as well as show return on investment for digital marketing efforts.As digital now sits at the heart of every marketing strategy, during past three years, more than 300 professionals from corporate and government sector successfully finished these Academies.

Zagreb

Jasno&Glasno is a true pioneer in Croatian digital marketing industry. It is one of the first companies that offered professional community management service as well as content production and management. Today Jasno&Glasno creates digital strategies that define every aspect of companies’ online presence, successfully manages a number of companies and brands on social media, produces original and versatile content for a number of brands and organisations and is working with/for some of the biggest, most valuable, highly innovative and entertaining companies in Croatia. One couldn’t ask for more.

Zagreb

First and last Croatian techie-lifestyle magazine was my first entrepreneurial experience. It was published from 2007 to 2011 and I’m incredibly proud that I was the part of it. Plan B wrote about the best people, projects and companies that manage to exist and flourish in this part of the world; about technologies that shape our life and about all those creative individuals that make Croatia and this region a great place to live. It was original, authentic, and if you ask many of our readers – one of the best designed magazines ever. It didn’t survive recession but its spirit still lives in our web magazine Planb.hr.

Zagreb

Teaching media convergence and digital journalism on Croatian Studies was a precious experience. Gave me an insight and understanding of young minds, but also on the (unsatisfying) level of knowledge of the digital world they finish their universities with. Unfortunately, due to other obligations my academic practice had to suffer, but sooner or later I will be back to teaching.

Zagreb

As a director of Kiosk Media, company that published Plan B magazine I was responsible for PR, marketing, relations with key advertisers, people, their salaries, promotions of Plan B during festivals and conferences and all unavoidable administration duties that were included in this assignment. It was a challenging, sometimes exhausting, but nevertheless priceless experience that every entrepreneur needs to go through.

Split

For a leading daily newspaper in Dalmatia, together with my team, I produced weekly ICT supplement Portal. It was dedicated to novelties in IT and telecommunication industries, gadgets, software and hardware that were shaping our everyday life. After Portal, I continued to collaborate with Slobodna Dalmacija as journalist and editor in their new ICT supplements – Halo and Digital World.

Zagreb

For four years I was proud to be a member of Users Council, independent body within Croatian Telecommunication Agency, regulator of domestic telecom sector. During those years Council acted numerous times on behalf of users, fought for their rights, solved thousands of complaints and established proper protocols for complaints consumers place but also a quality dialog between users and telecommunication companies. Working for this institution gave me a precious insight in ways government and its bodies work.

Zagreb

I became editor in chief in Moby, first Croatian monthly magazine dedicated to propulsive telecom. I succeeded two great editors – Marko Franjić and Bojan Mušćet – and led editorial board in publishing 50 issues of Moby magazine. During that time, for a year and a half I was executive editor of IT magazine Pc Chip. Smart, funny and inspiring colleagues, huge media experience, loyal network of partners and advertisers that supported Moby have made this one of the best working experiences anyone could wish for at the very beginning of a career.

Zagreb

ICT supplement in daily newspaper Jutarnji list was one of the first in mainstream media entirely dedicated to telecom and IT technologies as well as consumer electronics. It was fun to produce; it promoted devices and technologies that improve everyday life and work, and made impact with bringing important ICT stories to huge readership.

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