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From Web1.0 to Web3.0.

The technological development of the world is constantly accelerating. Various technologies continuously improve the quality of our lives, eliminate systemic irregularities, and enhance work efficiency. Today, technology is present in virtually every sphere of life. In the vast majority of cases, technology brings added value to humanity. However, it also happens that with the advancement…

Why you should use equity crowdfunding in the next decade?

Introduction   Equity crowdfunding is a phenomenon that has been exceptionally dynamically developing on all continents since the 10’s of the 21st century. Equity crowdfunding platforms from around the world allow you to make investments in companies that are looking for capital for development in just a few minutes. By 2020, millions of investors from…

Is social trading the future of investing?

What is social trading? Each investor chooses a more or less complex investment strategy. Some make their decisions on the basis of fundamental factors and a thorough analysis of financial reports, others try to predict future quotations of instruments by observing their behavior in the past, while others, based on the latest information, follow the…

Polish Collaborative Economy Honeycomb 3.0

The collaborative economy is moving from early youth, which began in 2009, to maturity in 2019. Over the past decade, many companies using this business model have embarked on and carried out global expansion. Some have raised billions in funding, many have sold their shares in public offerings and went public. They have turned from…

Equity Crowdfunding vs. Venture Capital vs. Business Angels in Poland

The Polish community of innovative companies is growing every year. There is a visible increase in the number of innovative companies which, from the day “0”, have plans to compete on the global market. More and more large companies and corporations set up their accelerators and CVC (Corporate Venture Capital) funds. Startups find their way…

How to prepare a pitch deck?

Many people come to me with proposals of interesting investment projects, some of them, however, are presented in an inaccessible form, so there is a risk that they will not be properly received. From the investor’s point of view, time matters, so if the information provided in the presentation is not precise enough, the chance…

Collaborative Economy HoneyComb 2.0 – premiere!

I present to you the latest edition of the Polish Honeycomb, which presents the development of Polish companies using the collaborative economy model in their operation. This year’s edition was prepared in cooperation with collaborative economy platforms: CrowdWay.pl and Jadezabiore.pl. I am glad that every year new honeycombs appear and new companies are also developing…

Crowdfunding as the best available method of financing innovation

In the past, the ways of raising finances needed for development by companies were quite limited. If their founders didn’t have their own financial resources or rich uncle, they would have needed to convince investors. Those people in turn did not always understand innovative ideas or they demanded full control over the whole project. In…

Why is the fourth industrial revolution an opportunity for Poland?

I am pleased to announce that I have become a laureate of the Digital Poland 2020+ competition in the ECONOMY category. The competition was organized by the Polish Chamber of Commerce under the patronage of Orange and under the honorary patronage of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. More information about the contest at…

Collaborative economy is the topic that heated the InternetBeta Conference – trendbook

In November 2016, the trendbook after the Internetbeta conference in Rzeszów was published. The full version with my participation is available for download here: Trend book Internetbeta_2016. The discussion panel attended by representatives of: BlaBlaCar, Uber, JadeZabiore, PolakPotrafi.pl, Nextbike and prof. Bolesław Rok on the sharing economy was one of the most controversial at the…

Sharing Economy or Collaborative Economy?

Currently, over 9,000 companies around the world operate in the collaborative economy model. According to global estimates of PwC, these companies will achieve an over 22-fold increase in revenues from USD 15 billion in 2014 to USD 335 billion in 2025. Hence, more and more people and institutions, including governmental ones, at the national and…

Collaborative economy benefits & sectors

The collaborative economy has achieved a global scale in a very short time for the reasons mentioned in the previous article. The benefits generated by companies in the cooperation economy are also worth emphasizing. In a study on the economy of cooperation conducted in Poland in 2016 (sample n = 1,517 people reflecting the population…