Over 550 startups will access growth and funding opportunities at How to Web Conference 2025
Early-stage startups can benefit from significant opportunities for growth, investment, and visibility at the most important event dedicated to startups and technology in the region. Bucharest, August 20, 2025 – How to Web Conference, the most important startup and technology event in Eastern Europe, will host multiple programs and formats for over 550 startups at… Read more »
The Leap of Tech #8: Batman, Not Superman
The Discipline of Earned Success At the latest Leap of Tech meet-up, the spotlight turned to a founder who knows the long game better than most. Ciprian Borodescu, serial entrepreneur (MorphL- acquired by Algolia, Appticles, Neokinetics Software, et al.), AI advocate, former Head of Algolia Romania and Principal Product Manager, and now Entrepreneur in Residence… Read more »
5 Questions with Laurentiu Ghenciu (VP of EMEA Sales – 2Checkout)
Laurentiu Ghenciu is a senior sales leader, with 10+ years expertise in building sales teams, processes and customer success. As VP of EMEA sales at 2Checkout, Laurentiu’s main responsibilities are coordinating the sales team in this region, as well as the relationship management with the main customers. He started his career as a product manager… Read more »
5 Questions with April Dunford (author and product positioning expert) – Part 1
April Dunford (CEO Ambient Strategy) is an executive consultant, speaker and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. She is a globally recognized expert in positioning and market strategy, and has launched 16 products into market across her 25-year career as VP of marketing at a series… Read more »
5 Questions with Ana-Maria Andronic, Cristina Bucur, Tudor Nedelea & Monica Georgiadis (DLA Piper)
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries. DLA Piper has been leading for many years the Global and European rankings in the number of Mergers & Acquisitions transactions completed. The Romanian office, led by Marian Dinu, ranked Eminent Practitioner Corporate/M&A by Chambers & Partners, was set up… Read more »
5 Questions with Michael Perry (Shopify) – Part 2
Michael Perry is Director of Product, Marketing Technology at Shopify. In his role, he specializes on product development for SMBs as it relates to tools that would simplify marketing. As an entrepreneur himself, Perry founded Kit, the virtual employee app for small businesses, which was acquired by Shopify in 2016. Previously, Michael founded GVING, which… Read more »
5 Questions with René Schöb (Partner, Head of Tax & Legal – KPMG Romania)
René Schöb is Partner and Head of Tax & Legal at KPMG Romania. He helps companies to create value by expanding in new territories and embracing new technologies. Adding value to the tech startup scene by enabling technology and change as well as combining solutions from Startups with the ones from Corporates, he drives growth… Read more »
5 Questions with Michael Perry (Shopify) – Part 1
Michael Perry is Director of Product, Marketing Technology at Shopify. In his role, he specializes on product development for SMBs as it relates to tools that would simplify marketing. As an entrepreneur himself, Perry founded Kit, the virtual employee app for small businesses, which was acquired by Shopify in 2016. Previously, Michael founded GVING, which… Read more »
The ABCs of OKRs
Objectives and key results (OKR) is a framework for defining and tracking goals and their outcomes. It was first introduced by Andy Grove, the “Father of OKRs”, during his tenure at Intel, and it is now used by many technology giants such as Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Spotify. The benefits of the objectives and key… Read more »
5 Questions with Bogdan Lucaciu (Adore Me): team management, growth and technology in the fashion industry
Bogdan Lucaciu has been an entrepreneur for his entire adult life, a journey that started back in 2003 at System & Network Solutions (SNS), a company specialized in programming and network administration. Five years later, Bogdan started a software development company, Sinapticode, as an SNS spin-off. In 2013, he merged Sinapticode into Adore Me, a… Read more »
5 Questions with Sean Ellis (Growth Hackers) about Growth Hacking – Part 2
Sean Ellis coined the term “Growth Hacking” and is considered the founder of the worldwide Growth Hacking movement. He developed and applied Growth Hacking at companies like Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn, and Lookout, which led to breakout growth for these companies (all worth billions of dollars today). Sean is also co-author of “Hacking Growth”, which has… Read more »
5 Questions with Razvan Todor (Bitdefender): product management, customer experience and developing your product
Razvan Todor works in product management for Bitdefender, but has a strong background in agile methodologies and roots in UI experience and design. He has over 10 years of experience in managing large, cross-functional, distributed teams. This autumn at How to Web, Razvan is going to show you how security products are designed and why… Read more »
The ABCs of Driving a Performing Team Culture
Research shows that companies with great team culture outperform their competitors. Why? Because having a healthy organizational culture makes employees happier, more productive, and less likely to leave. Team culture evolves over time. If left unchecked, it can become a negative force, and, when that happens, employee engagement and performance begin to suffer. But, with… Read more »
5 Questions with Sean Ellis (Growth Hackers) about Growth Hacking – Part 1
Sean Ellis coined the term “Growth Hacking” and is considered the founder of the worldwide Growth Hacking movement. He developed and applied Growth Hacking at companies like Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn, and Lookout, which led to breakout growth for these companies (all worth billions of dollars today). Sean is also co-author of “Hacking Growth”, which has… Read more »