ENB - Entrepreneurs Network Barcelona

The next ENB meeting will be this Thursday, 20th May at the Hotel Casanova, C/Gran Via de les Corts, 559 (corner of Gran Via and Casanova, metro Universitat or Urgell).

19:15: Arrival and registration

19.30-20.30: Talk (pre-registration required, 5€ entrance fee) STOYTCHO VLAYKOV - ‘A Personal Insight - Starting, Building and Selling a Business’

20.30 onwards: Social meeting in hotel bar

This month we have the pleasure of introducing our speaker Stoytcho Vlaykov, previously Business Development Manager - Mobile, Yahoo and Founder and Managing Director of M Telecom Ltd (now Velti Bulgaria) and who currently lectures at IESE Barcelona. His presentation is entitled:

‘A Personal Insight - Starting, Building and Selling a Business’

“My experience with starting, building and selling a business. I will give my personal story plus some mistakes and insights from that process.The “agenda” will be:- Why I started my own business- Selecting a business partner- Funding the business (pro/con outside investment)- Market timing vs the unique idea- The big challenge: building my team and learning to be a leader- Building a network to help you survive and grow- Considering the exit - timing was everything- Attracting he right buyer and negotiating the deal”.

As always we ask that you PLEASE BE SURE TO REGISTER EARLY FOR THE TALK so as to avoid disappointment. You can register by emailing us with your name and company to: info@networkbarcelona.com

SPEAKER PROFILE

STOYTCHO VLAYKOV - ‘A Personal Insight - Starting, Building and Selling a Business’

Mobile data services entrepreneur with 10 years experience in international mobile and internet industries.

Founder and managing director of M Telecom Ltd (now Velti Bulgaria) - the leading mobile content and marketing company based in Bulgaria.

General Manager, Bulgaria
Velti - Public Company; Computer Software industry

In March 2007, M Telecom was sold to Velti Plc, a mobile software and marketing company listed on the London AIM market, representing a successful exit from my first business venture.

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Founder and Managing Director M Telecom Ltd.11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry

March 2007 – November 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Founder and Managing Director
M Telecom Ltd.11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry, July 2004 – March 2007 (2 years 9 months)

Managing Director of mobile content and marketing services business, M Telecom Ltd.  in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Business Development Manager - Mobile
Yahoo! Europe
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; yhoo; Internet industry

The company is the leading mobile service provider in the country with projected revenue of EUR 1mn+ in 2007. M Telecom has 15 full time employees.

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January 2001 – July 2004 (3 years 7 months)

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Education

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Magister Economics

1998 – 2001 (3 years)

ATTENDEES FOR THE TALKS:

1. Tony Anagor

2. Lucy Davis

3. Nick Lesser

4. Corina Pisc

5. Ania Honess

6. Victoria Yasinetskay

7. John French

8. Jeremy Askew

9. Manuel Marin

10. Maria Bakardjieva

11. Alex Martin

12. Cristina Garcia

13. Edward Hamilton

14. Alessandra Dalla Fin

15. Alex Hosking

16. Michelle Barrios

17. Robert Merino

18. Stephen Garland

19. Valeska Magalhaes

20. Raoul van Lennep

21. Bruce Calder

22. Giuliana Agüero

23. Odette Gonzále

24. Berta Santos

25. Neil Woodhams

26. Mitch Berman

27. Amine Saoudi Hassani

28. Uldaric Bertinotti

29. Philip Strange

30. David Berenguer

31. Olga Dolgova

32. Akin Savage

The next ENB meeting will be this Thursday, 15th April at the Hotel Casanova, C/Gran Via de les Corts, 559 (corner of Gran Via and Casanova, metro Universitat or Urgell).

19:15: Arrival and registration

19.30-20.30: Talk (pre-registration required, 5€ entrance fee)
20.30 onwards: Social meeting in hotel bar

This month we have two great presenters Clemens Rossberg (co-founder fonYou) and Wyatt Rosental (Afora Invest and guest lecturer at IESE Barcelona) talking about Start-Ups; the dos and don’ts, the highs and the lows - based on their own extensive experience with companies here in Spain and in other parts of the world.

Speaker 1: Clemens Rossberg – Setting up a company: Mistakes you should only make once
Speaker 2: Wyatt Rosental – Start-ups: The Early Days

As always we ask that you PLEASE BE SURE TO REGISTER EARLY FOR THE TALK so as to avoid disappointment. You can register by emailing us with your name and company to: info@networkbarcelona.com

SPEAKER PROFILES

Clemens Rossberg – “Setting up a company: Mistakes you should only make once.”

In March 2006, Clemens co-founded fonYou, a mobile operator (www.fonyou.com) and technology solutions provider (www.fonyoutelecom.com) based in Barcelona. fonYou has invented the Online Mobile Telephony Concept, which gives customers total control of their mobile telephony services and gives them direct access to their call records, text messages and voicemails through any web browser.

Prior to fonYou, Clemens co-founded NextGen Consulting (www.nextgen.es), a consultancy firm where he acted as Partner. NextGen, set up in London in 1999 and with its headquarters in Barcelona since 2000, provided highly specialised financial planning and analysis services to the telecom and internet industries.

Before NextGen, Clemens worked in Lehman Brothers’ Telecom & Media group in London where he was involved in major European M&A deals. Prior to that, he was in the business planning department of mobile operator One (Austria) where he was part of a team that raised ATS 7.5 bn in debt financing.

Clemens has given classes in financial modelling at the finance institute of the University of Vienna and holds a degree in international business management from that university (specialisation in capital markets).

Wyatt Rosental – “Start-ups: The Early Days”

Wyatt Rosental was previously founder and CEO of Loop Telecom S.L.. Loop was founded in 1998 and Wyatt signed financing deals with equity investors, financial institutions and government that ranked Loop as one of largest telecom deals in 2001. Loop grew to become the second largest DSL service provider in Spain and was sold to a Spanish telecommunications operator in 2002.

Prior to Loop, he worked in various financial positions for Transamerica Financial and Bank of America in Los Angeles, USA, as well as Director of Business Development for Genmedica Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company based in Barcelona, Spain. He was also Director of Operations for Pace Enterprises in Mexico.

Currently, he runs Afora Invest, an investment fund dedicated to the acquisition and management of assets in Bulgaria.

Wyatt completed an MBA at IESE in Barcelona, and is currently completing a doctorate in Biostatistics and Data Mining at the Universitat de Barcelona. He is an occasional lecturer at IESE, one of Europe’s leading business schools, based in Barcelona.

PLEASE BE SURE TO REGISTER EARLY FOR THE TALK so as to avoid disappointment. You can register by emailing us with your name and company to:info@networkbarcelona.com

We look forward to seeing you there!

The ENB Team

LIST OF ATENDEES

1. Ignasi Giro

2. Oscar Vaello Monlla

3. Sara Álvaro Fros

4. Cristina García Blasc

5. Daniel Lesser

6. Christian Clottu

7. Sergio Pozuelo

8. Bryan Wijsman

9. Mitch Berman

10. Nerea Argote

11. Ognian Velitchkov

12. Antonio Rami

13. Philippe Gelis

14. Leticia Brando

15. Luke Roberson

16. Craig McLaughlan

17. John Woodward

18. Alessandra Dalla Fina

19. Samantha Morton

20. Sian Woodruff

21. Brian Farrell

22. Ania Honess

23. Djanira Cortesão

24. Adolfo Pedraz

25. Uldaric Bertinotti

26. Edward Hamilton

27. Andrea Buffa

28. Jean-David Kouassigan

29. Jan Ciesko
30. Lauren Gonzalez
31. Carlota Estera
32. Marc-antoine Breuil
33. Patricia Armengol Almaraz
34. Amanda Greene Wilkinson
35. Anna Macià
36. Josep Alnaud
37. Monica Salgado
38. Héctor Treviño
39. Suzanne Fennelly
40. Jon Glasco
41. Ondrej Benes
42. Erika Csaszar
43. Greg Robbins
44. Manuel Marín

45. Lee Gonzalez

Attendees for the talk:

1. Tony Anagor

2. Corina Pisc

3. Nick Lesser

4. Christian Clottu Saba

5. Oscar Vaello Monllau

6. Alexia Giordmaina Medici

7. Olga Dolgova

8. Germán Delgado

9. Lené Tourn

10. Nunu Roney

11. Judi Oshowole

12. Ondrej Benes

13. Claudia Cano

14. Alberto Denia Cerezo

15. Marysol Claver

16. Nicole Trad

17. Djanira Cortesao

18. Barbara de Swaan

19. Maite Reche

20. Josephine

21. Marisa Lopez

22. Felipe Araujo

23. Christian Cokson

24. Patricia Zeegers

25. Anna Dabrowska

26. Belen Palacios

27. Alicia Alfonso

28. Cormac Walsh

29. Ron Fassbender

30. Ania Honess

31. Patricia Vargas

32. Sascha Froehlich

33. Philip Strange

34. Scott Doane

35. Mariona López

36. Abel de Benito

37. Gemma Graupera

38. Valeska Magalhaes

39. Henrik Akesson

40. Alessandra Dalla Fina

41. Rose Chong

42. Anette Kragdahl

43. Abel de Benito

44. Elisa Ferreira

45. Sebastian Egri

46. Patricia Jover

47. Victoriano Travieso

48. Rod Lloyd

49. Carlota Estera

50. Claudia Cano

51. Veronika Brinkmann

A very happy new year to all ENB members.

As you know, we have invited a wide variety of speakers along to our meetings over the past couple of years, and we thought it was time to get the membership more involved in helping us select suitable speakers for the future.  Therefore, we would very much appreciate your responses to the following questions:

1) Do you know anyone who would be a good speaker on a topic relevant and of interest to entrepreneurs in Barcelona?  If so, please send us their name and contact details, and we will happy to have a conversation with them about the possibility of doing so.

2) Which topics would be of most interest to you for future talks and presentations?

3) Any other comments/suggestions on how we can maximise the benefit to members from the group.

Please email us at info@networkbarcelona.com with responses.

Best regards,

The ENB team

We are delighted to announce that this month’s Entrepreneurs Network Barcelona meeting will be on Thursday 17th December, and will be our annual Christmas dinner.

The dinner will take place from 20:30 at our regular venue, the Hotel Casanova, at Gran Vía 559 (on the corner with Casanova), with the hotel’s fantastic restaurant Mexiterrenée providing us with a high quality Mexican/Mediterranean buffet. The price is 39 euros including food and drink.

In order to reserve a place, it is necessary to pre-pay the hotel using a credit card. Please email Poli Shosheva at p.shosheva@rafaelhoteles.com confirming your attendance and including your credit card details. If you prefer not to send your credit card details in an email, please email her first and then arrange to give her the details by phone (933 964 808).

We would appreciate it if you could also email us at info@networkbarcelona.com to let us know that you are coming.

To confirm the details:

• ENB Christmas dinner
• Thursday 17th December from 20:30
• Hotel Casanova, Gran Vía 559 (corner with Casanova, metro Universitat or Urgell)
• Price is 39 euros including food and drink
• Pre-payment by credit card is necessary, please contact Poli Shosheva at p.shosheva@rafaelhoteles.com (933 964 808)

The menu is as follows:

DEGUSTACIONES

Pre aperitivos
Tosta de carpaccio de buey y parmesano
Brocheta de mini mozzarella, tomate seco y albahaca fresca
Quiche de calabacín y bacón
Brocheta de tataki de atún
Tinga de pollo con chile chipotle
Quesadilla sincronizada de jamón Ibérico y queso brie
Croquetas caseras
Mini rollitos de verduras con salsa agridulce
Quesadilla sincronizada butifarra ‘esparracada’ y setas
Empanadillas de atún clásicas

BUFFETS

Mexicano
Tortillas de maíz fritas
Burritos clásicos de pollo
Guacamole Mexiterranee
Burritos de carne de ternera
Salsa de tomatillo verde
Ceviches Mexiterranée
Salsa taquera (tomate y chile chipotle)
Quesadillas y Tacos
Frijoles refritos

Arroz
Risotto de setas de temporada con parmesano

POSTRES

Brochetas de fruta natural
Brochetas de brownie de chocolate
Chupito de crema de vainilla

BARRA COMPLETA DE BEBIDAS