The European VC-Funded Startup Guide: Create and Manage a Startup in Eastern Europe

Explore the startup landscape of East European countries and review the differences in the concepts of limited liability companies and company equity in approaching the market. This quick reference guide is structured around the primary author, Ivan Voras, with additional chapters written by guest collaborators. Chapters are concise and focus on ways to overcome the various obstacles start-ups may face. You'll benefit from regionally relevant advice on finding problems worth solving as a startup, how to hire people, how to raise investment rounds, and how to find and communicate with investors.

Eastern Europe has become a region of fast growth after years of mismanagement and stagnation, and it has become the origin of promising startups. The last couple of years have also seen the rise in the number of local VCs who are attempting to address this market, as well as local incubators and accelerators. But there's a problem: the vast majority of educational material available in books and online are written from the perspective of the US market and economy, and are not directly applicable in the complicated nuances of Eastern Europe.

The European VC-Funded Startup Guide does not pull punches to highlight the difficulties involved in starting up from this region, but also provides workarounds and advice on how you can overcome them.

What You'll Learn

• Create and manage an early stage startup in East European countries
• Run a young company, hire initial people, and raise investments
• Understand venture capitalist funds, which ones to avoid, and what to do with the early investment once you get it

Who This Book is For

Novice startup founders in East European countries or more experienced professionals, such as investors and lawyers, interested in the startups in this part of the world.

探索東歐國家的初創企業景觀，並檢視有限責任公司和公司股權在進入市場時的概念差異。這本快速參考指南以主要作者Ivan Voras為結構，並由其他嘉賓合作撰寫了額外的章節。章節簡潔明瞭，重點關注如何克服初創企業可能面臨的各種障礙。您將從區域相關的建議中受益，這些建議包括如何找到值得解決的問題作為初創企業，如何招聘人才，如何籌集投資輪次，以及如何找到並與投資者溝通。

東歐在多年的管理不善和停滯後已成為一個快速增長的地區，並成為有前途的初創企業的起源地。過去幾年還見證了當地風險投資公司的增加，他們試圖應對這個市場，以及當地的孵化器和加速器。但問題是：大多數可在書籍和網上獲得的教材都是從美國市場和經濟的角度撰寫的，並不直接適用於東歐的複雜細微差別。

《歐洲風險投資資助的初創企業指南》毫不掩飾地強調了從這個地區創業所涉及的困難，但也提供了解決方法和建議，以幫助您克服這些困難。

您將學到什麼：
- 在東歐國家創建和管理早期初創企業
- 經營一家年輕公司，招聘初期人員，並籌集投資
- 了解風險投資基金，避免哪些基金，以及在獲得早期投資後該怎麼做

適合閱讀對象：
東歐國家的初創企業創始人初學者，或對這個地區的初創企業感興趣的更有經驗的專業人士，如投資者和律師。

Ivan Voras has earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, and is an entrepreneur with a passion for exotic technologies. As a top-down architect and implementer of big IT systems, he has worked on early blockchain products in 2014, IoT hardware in 2017, and is now a founder of Equinox Vision, a startup which commercializes Augmented Reality.

Ivan is also a co-host of the Croatia's biggest business & lifestyle podcast, Surove Strasti, and the startup-oriented Well Founded podcast, and was an associate editor for Croatia's biggest IT magazine, Mreza, from 2005.-2020.

Ivan Voras在克羅地亞薩格勒布大學電機工程與計算機學院獲得了計算機工程博士學位，並且是一位對異國技術充滿熱情的企業家。作為一位自上而下的大型IT系統架構師和實施者，他在2014年參與了早期的區塊鏈產品開發，2017年參與了物聯網硬體項目，現在是Equinox Vision的創辦人，該公司專注於商業化擴增實境技術。

Ivan還是克羅地亞最大的商業與生活方式播客《Surove Strasti》和以初創企業為導向的《Well Founded》播客的聯合主持人，並且曾擔任克羅地亞最大的IT雜誌《Mreza》的副編輯，任期從2005年到2020年。