53°N talked to Philippe Sachs Deputy-CEO of Safari Kid Philippe was living in Singapore working at Standard Chartered Bank when he realised there was no school to provide the educational experience he wanted for his young children. As an American living in the east with a Chinese wife, he felt strongly that the right kind of school could perfectly marry the... Continue Reading →
‘SSUP!’s team 53°N interviewed CEO and co-founder Christian Strobl, and Head of Demand Roman Rittmann of Hackerbay, a software and services company from Berlin We got an hour with Christian and Roman, both self-taught hackers with backgrounds in law and communication respectively, about starting up a tech services company in a tech booming era. Hackerbay... Continue Reading →
Team 53°N talked to Markus Kröger CEO of heycar, and Rebecca Schneider Talent Acquisition Manager Markus Kröger has made a career out of growing businesses, with a history of scaling well-known juggernauts like Delivery Hero and PayPal in Germany. Since September last year he took on the challenge of becoming CEO to heycar, a new... Continue Reading →
Team SaaSEAD’s interview with Marnix Broer, Co-founder of Studocu – a platform for students to find the study resources shared by their fellow students. By just typing the name of their university, students can access summaries of books, past exams, and tons of lecture notes. The idea of a student note-sharing platform was born, perhaps... Continue Reading →
‘SSUP!’s team 53°N interviewed Philipp von Falkenhausen (right), Associate Director Marketing EU, and Konrad Schade (left), Associate Director Category Management at Wayfair EU – a hyper fast growing American e-commerce platform for furniture. “This is not a start-up anymore!”, was our first thought when we entered Wayfair’s Germany headquarters in Berlin… naive as we were... Continue Reading →
Putting the lean approach to practice and paying attention to your customers is often preached but not always practiced. SaaSEAD had the opportunity to speak with Irish-native turned Amsterdam-entrepreneur John Staunton, CEO of Countr https://countrhq.com/, a software-based point of sale system that allows retailers, restaurants, and other enterprises turn a tablet into a powerful Point... Continue Reading →
53°N talked to Gijs op de Weegh COO of Payvision Sixteen years ago, Rudolf Booker decided to start a business in payment processing. And so, Payvision was founded, right after the dot.com boom in 2002. Shortly after, Gijs joined Rudolf in his adventure. It was a time when there were no VCs and angel investors... Continue Reading →
53 Degrees North interviewed Roman Sick, CEO of Holoplot, in his office in a warehouse building in Berlin, and got a demo of this brilliant new sound technology in their own showroom. It’s not the first time Roman has been participating in innovative projects as an entrepreneur, but this one is definitely one of his... Continue Reading →
Team SaaSEAD's interview with Erinn Collier, CRO and Co-Founder at Just3things How many entrepreneurs do you know that started off as professional ballet dancers? Well, team SaasSEAD only knows one and that’s Erinn Collier, CRO and co-Founder at just3things, a unique platform that enables organizations to align cross-functionally and to work more efficiently by empowering teams to prioritize their most important goals. The platform addresses some key... Continue Reading →
‘SSUP! Team 53°N interviewed Copenhagen-based CTO and co-founder Mikkel Boje (left on picture) of Capdesk – a story about finding the right business idea and the right business partners. We met Mikkel in his office in a building that was previously a stronghold for Danish photographers. Although some photographers still have their studios there, recently... Continue Reading →
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