START YOUNG BURGAS

🚀 "Start Young" is a three-day online event supporting young entrepreneurs. In 2022, "Bulgarian Entrepreneur" magazine will hold the 50-hour event to support entrepreneurs who want to start their own business. "Start Young" aims to provide hands-on training and opportunities to realize ideas to budding entrepreneurs through funding, support from mentors and partners, finding like-minded entrepreneurs and providing an environment for exposure.

"Starting on Friday evening with presentations of idea projects and team gathering, the event continues through brainstorming with the help of mentors, developing a business model and creating basic prototypes, ending with demonstrations and presentations on Sunday evening in front of a jury", commented Plamen Popov - co-founder of the initiative.

⏰ The start of the event will be on 18.03 from 19:00 to 21:00, and the final and the announcement of the winners on 20.03 from 18:00 to 20:00.

👉"Participants create working projects during the event and have the opportunity to collaborate with like-minded people outside of their everyday networks. All teams have discussions with business leaders and receive valuable feedback from successful entrepreneurs. We created the "Start Young" format to ignite the entrepreneurial fire in teenagers, to create an environment for them to feel the tension of real life, but also the sweet feeling of achieving a result after hard work," commented Iva Pavlova - co-founder of the initiative.

👇 The format is socially oriented and completely free for participants, and its aim is to support budding entrepreneurs through education, promotion and inspiration. The workshop is suitable for enterprising individuals of any age, as well as for people who are looking for fulfillment and would like to become part of an innovative and successful team. A specially selected jury, which includes representatives of business and education, will distinguish the best teams, which will receive prizes from the partners of the event.

🏆 Jury:

Nikola Petrov from Lithium

Marc de Turck

Svetoslav Romanov from Clean water

Bilyana Zhitarova from Soroptimist

Polina Toskova - Country manager myPOS

Daniel Pavlov from RU Angel Kanchev

Ivan Gavrilov - Municipal Councilor, Municipality of Burgas, Chairman of the Commission FOR CREATING CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN THE TERRITORY OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF BURGAS

Borislava Kirkova from The Alpha group

⭐️ Mentors:

Miroslav Angelov from mka finance

Danail Penev from Tracking bg

Yavor Vertinkov from 1gaz

Galin Dimitrov from East Accelerator

Pavel Pavlov from bem.bg

Xavi Villarreal of BCA

Action coach

Soroptimist

Violeta Zheleva from Vacation M

Zdravko Donkov from Smartity

Gene Keys

Kristina Mihailova from Swiss Education Group

⭐️ Partners:

V&P Residence club, Nov Dom 1, Smarty Universe, СРСНПБ, AndyVil, STEAM, ECOM Solutions

👉 More about the organizers:

Plamen P. Popov is the managing owner of the technology company Smartcards.tech. Co-founder and executive director of "Bulgarian entrepreneur" magazine (BEM.BG) with an award for media of the year from the "Fashion, Style and Show Business Awards" 2021. Creator of the national social and educational campaign "I wake up Bulgaria" in partnership with the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy 2017. Author of the business manuals "The Entrepreneur", "The Winner", "Negotiate with Me" and co-author of "How to start a business without equity". Plamen Popov is the founder and member of the management board of the Start Young Foundation.

Iva Pavlova is the founder and chief operating officer of the technology company Smartcards.tech. Co-founder and technical director of the magazine "Bulgarian Entrepreneur" (BEM.BG) with an award for media of the year from the "Fashion, Style and Show Business Awards" 2021. Author of the business guide "First Impression" and co-author of "How to Start a Business with No Equity". Winner of the "Business Lady of the Year" award in the Young Entrepreneur under 28 category in 2020. Iva Pavlova is the founder and member of the board of directors of the "Start Young" foundation.