Ziarul Financiar, ZF Digital Summit 2018: business, evasion and IT services

ZF Digital Summit 2018, October 2018: a discussion on where Romania’s IT start-up ecosystem stood. Ziarul Financiar headline: there is capital to invest, but not enough entrepreneurial culture and courage. Guests: me, then co-founder and managing partner of Tremend, beside investors, founders and executives from ANIS, Gecad Ventures, Earlybird Venture Capital, UiPath and others. Under my name: a business culture focused on evasion instead of on business, and Romania’s IT services sector.

§Business, not evasion

“Instead of focusing on doing business, we focus on evasions, and then you are no longer focused on growing, on developing.” („În loc să ne concentrăm pe a face business, ne concentrăm pe eschivări, şi atunci nu mai eşti concentrat pe a creşte, pe a te dezvolta.”)

§IT services, with many interruptions

“In IT services, things have shown quite well in Romania, but with many interruptions.” („În zona de servicii IT lucrurile s-au văzut destul de bine în România, dar cu multe sincope.”)

§Estonia and examples, reported the day before

Also under my name: Estonia as the country with the most start-ups per capita, children who now want to become entrepreneurs, and the need for examples that push imagination further. These ran in a separate Ziarul Financiar article on 16 October 2018.