European Bootstrapping Champions

Reinhold Baudisch is the founder and managing director of Austria's largest independent tariff comparison portal, Durchblicker.at, since 2009. The company is Austria's largest comparison platform

Durchblicker currently offers 28 tariff comparisons for insurance, telecommunications, electricity and gas, as well as traditional financial products such as loans, current accounts and savings interest. With the user-friendly comparison calculators, consumers can find top offers in these areas without haggling, they can conclude online deals quickly and easily and thus save several thousand euros a year. In addition, durchblicker offers free advice and supports you when switching to a cheaper provider.

The Vienna-based start-up currently employs over 80 people.

In this Talk, Eugen B. Russ talks to Reinhold about his early career, how he came up with the idea of this business, but also what advice he has for young entrepreneurs.

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In this webinar Bergfex CEO Alexander Katzmaier talks about his experience building a cost-efficient data analytics setup from scratch.
During the one hour conversation, Alexander gives you practical insights into building an automated reporting solution with a limited budget that is easy to manage and will share the main learnings for entrepreneurs from this experience.
Dos and don’ts, tips and an insightful Q&A session.
This session is dedicated to all entrepreneurs and CTOs that are interested in learning more about building a cost-efficient data analytics setup from scratch.

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Michael Kamleitner is the CEO & Founder of walls.io, an all-in-one social wall solution that allows you to collect, curate, and display content in an easy-to-customize feed. Passionate about SaaS, tech and social media, Michael developed an easy-to-use social media tool which allows you to collect content from multiple social media platforms or let your audience post content directly on your wall.

You can embed it as a social wall on your website or display it on a screen at events, hotels, restaurants, shops, offices, etc. You can even add your custom posts to the feed and create a nice mix between social media posts and your brand's content.

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Peter Weiler is the managing director and founder of Dating Central Europe, Hungary’s leading online dating company.He started his career as a graphic and web designer in 1995 and was involved in launching Hungary’s leading news portal Origo for Hungarian Telekom in 1998. He started his own company Habostorta with a group of co-investors in the year 2000. Habostorta was the first entertainment and dating portal in Hungary that merged into the newly founded Dating Central Europe in 2014. Peter has been actively involved in developing and growing the online dating business in Hungary and the CEE region ever since. Dating Central Europe joined the Russmedia family 18 months ago, and for that reason, we wanted to chat with him and see how he sees in retrospective the negotiation, the onboarding process and what it is that a company should be looking for when in search of an investor.

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Join us for an inspiring conversation with Eugen B. Russ, Managing Director of RMEP, as he shares his remarkable journey in building a highly successful holding company since 2018. Under his leadership, RMEP has achieved an impressive IRR of 39% over the past six years. With a portfolio of over 10 majority-owned companies, RMEP specializes in acquiring, managing, and operating profitable niche businesses in online marketplaces, consumer apps, and SaaS.

Discover how their smallest portfolio company earns $2-3 million in EBIT, while the largest generates $19.2 million. Eugen reveals the secrets to running these profitable ventures with lean teams of under 20, sometimes even under 15 people, achieving revenue of $5 to $10 million at EBITDA margins of 40-60%.

If you're passionate about running extremely profitable niche companies, this episode is a must-listen!

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