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Experience - StartUp Entrepreneur

May 2020 - August 2020

Budapest, Hungary

Tasks:

Core Challenges:

Core Achievements:

Rapidly developed a fully implementable concept including contract ready chef and kitchen
Grew a following and distribution network through paid food tasting and gym / nutrition expert partnerships
Decided ultimately that administrative hurdles make the Hungarian market financially unattractive for this offer

March 2018 - present

Budapest, Hungary

Tasks:

Create a tailor-made clothing provider that can compete with mass produced quality brands on price while paying fair income to independent tailors

Core Challenges:

Build the company without industry experience
Establish relationships with prominent companies as an unknown startup to replace high marketing costs with multiplier who care about fair suit production
Survive COVID-19 and the end of in-house events

Core Achievements:

Acquired 150k EUR outside investment and support from, amongst others, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley and the President of AmCham (see Key Account Management sample project)
Managed to retain team and customer support during COVID and pivot TTN to a new go-to-market strategy through commercial partnerships
Launched new streetwear fashion brand Sonder.fashion to enter the boutique and online store market
Had to close company down due to lack of runway during 4th wave of COVID - continuing on a smaller scale as private enterprise

January 2015 - present

Budapest, Hungary

Tasks:

Bring together artists with affordable art and customers with the wish to have more unique decoration in their home

Core Challenges:

Create a working system without prior experience and with a low budget programmer
Create an offering that is attractive to less art educated audience and promote it wide enough to achieve sufficient traction

Core Achievements:

Established a working system and created unique and attractive features
Created a small customer community in a difficult market space, but did not achieve sufficient traction
Decided in 2018 to focus on a new project and keep ARTCOSMOS as a side project.