Category: Business
Daytrippi, Find an activity at your destination
This article is part of In Conversation with Contemporary Web Startups at the Web Summit Daytrippi.com is a free online platform designed for holiday destination specialists to promote their products and for travellers to more easily discover new activities and sights in a certain area. Currently, travellers can use the platform to choose between more than 72 activities provided by verified organizers in ten countries. Daytrippi aims to offer the lowest prices, and their website has been nominated for the 2015 Accenture Innovation Awards. Its founder Bas Hof shared with us his point of view on the support availible in his home country, the Netherlands, and his future expectations for the company. Helena: What are your biggest current ambitions? Bas: The objective is to grow to 15,000 activities in the world within 3 years. We contact the supplier directly and enrich content manually. Helena: Does your government offer any economic ...
Upgrade Digital offers hotels’online presence a five-star upgrade
This article is part of In Conversation with Contemporary Web Startups at the Web Summit Upgrade Digital helps hotel groups to take advantage of new technology in order to give their online presence an upgrade. It aims to significantly increase their profitabilily by improving their websites and booking engines, and speeding up the links to hotel management systems. Upgrade Digital's booking API improves performance enormously. We asked its founder Damien Allison to tell us more about his project and the competitors in his field. We wanted to know his point of view regarding support from the UK, where Upgrade Digital's headquaters is based, towards new startups. Damien: Upgrade Digital was founded to allow website builders and media agencies servicing the hospitality market to build websites faster. Our technology enables the creation of amazing booking experiences in a matter of weeks instead of six to nine months. Based on our own ...
Zusa: Businesses tailor-made for everyone in one app
This article is part of In Conversation with Contemporary Web Startups at the Web Summit Zusa is the world's first diversity directory business search provider. The app categorises businesses by a range of diversity filters, and allows users to find small and medium enterprises based on personal preferences. Zusa filters businesses by language, ethnicity, race, religion, age and gender of staff or customers, as well as listing businesses that share alliances with specific sporting or social clubs, and employ or support disabled, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender workers. Its founder James Hazelton told us about his expectations and the government support offered in Australia, where the company resides, towards his company and towards startups in general. Helena: What are the most important objectives for you right now? James: We've just recently launched our Android beta, and are currently developing our iOS beta, which should be live in the AppStore by ...
Start-Ups in Europe, everything you need to know about
Europe is offering a comprehensive context for every European entrepreneur in order to start up their business or expand an existing one, across the boundaries of their own country, but within the European Union. Europe is offering flexible legislation to its citizens aiming to empower them, support new business ideas and strengthen the competitive advantage of Europe itself. (more…)
Work in Slovakia as an English teacher
Moving to Slovakia to work as an independent english teacher is maybe not the most obvious career choice on your mind. However, if instant fortune isn't your primary target teaching in Slovakia can offer you a very interesting view on both business and private life in this young nation. And if you are an outdoor enthusiast the flexible work schedule allows plenty of time for trips in the mountainous Slovak countryside. The Job Market There is a huge demand for English teachers all over Slovakia and the English language is seen as one of the most important skills in almost every position on the job market. English, being one of the major subjects in secondary school education with a „maturita“ (A level exam) on B2 level (upper intermediate) also means that there is high demand among teenagers. Furthermore, most English speaking programs and films shown on TV channels available in ...
A Guide on Starting and Running your E-commerce Business
It is the way you plan and do your research about the e-commerce domain, which makes you to start off your business in a well-sketched way. So know the rules of the game, before you plunge into it With the online business domain becoming the hotspot of many business merchants, doing business online has become every second’s merchant wish it seems! E-business has taken the world by storm and under its umbrella e-commerce is gaining pace in terms of soaring in popularity among the people who want to earn online, make the best of business opportunities and much more. Starting a business, mainly in the e-commerce sector does not only require your whim, finance and other resources, you will have to act ethically, so that the future path that you pave for your business is a smooth one. How to start an ecommerce? With these changes in mind if ...