The official blog of Stathis Kassios for Business, Media, Economics & Arts

Please introduce yourself to the readers of this blog. What is the story behind Noowit? I am Nikolaos Nanas, co-founder of Noowit. Noowit’s history goes all the way back to 2000 when I started my PhD on Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Information Filtering and Content Personalization. I finished my PhD in 2004 and until 2010 I continued studying and improving the Immune-Inspired User Profiling model, which was the result of my PhD work. After confirming experimentally that it has the ability to learn and continuously adapt to a user’s (or a group’s) interests, I have decided to apply it to the real world. The development of Noowit’s Personalized News Aggregator started in September 2011 in collaboration with my business partner Christos Spiliopoulos. The first public beta version of the service was released on the 1st of July 2013 and has attracted international interest, which many characterizing it as a competitor to the popular Flipboard app. Although Noowit’s web ap...

Please introduce yourself to the readers of this blog. I am a business strategist the last 10 years. Mentoring businesses or start-ups. I focus on business strategy and growth. Why should somebody attend the forthcoming seminars Starting-up your Business in Athens and Thessaloniki? In this seminar you can get 6 months of business consulting in 4 hours. It is a solid course on the basics that every start-up is searching for. It will give you a great overview so you can go start your business doing the right things. Your opinion on the Greek start-up ecosystem? Greek start-up ecosystem is growing fast. Some people will say its a hype, I ll say most emerging industries go through the same stages. There are plenty of start-ups (many of them really growing and scaling fast), available funding, several organizations, accelerators and service providers offering help and support so now is the time to take the leap of faith and risk to transform your own idea into...

Very proud to announce that our startup Hellene.gr stars in the screenplay ' Helen of Joy ' written by my business partner Sheridan Tatsuno . 'Helen of Joy' made it to the final list of London Greek Film Festival ! Read the brief synopsis here: http://www.londongreekfilmfestival.com/lgff2014filminfo/HelenofJoy.htm Vote for our screenplay here: http://www.greekfilmlovers.com/ Spread the word! Stathis Hellene.gr creates export jobs & helps orphans in Greece! Join us in revitalizing Greece!

S.K. - Please introduce yourself to the readers of this blog and tell us a bit about the background story of dozeo. M.E. - My name is Mark Egert and I’m one of the founders and COO of dozeo. Back in 2009 my brother in law had the idea during a boring advanced education of his former employer. Everybody sat in a room in front of big screens. Just in short breaks you got to actually see each other. "Why not do that from home, saving time and money and have more fun", he wondered. In the online market, there existed some solutions, but none was easy to handle, cost transparent and looked well. So he decided - let’s start a project ourselves. That’s were I and another guy stepped in and we started our trip, gladly not knowing what way lays before us... S.K. - How you identified a market problem and seized the opportunity to solve it? How dozeo differentiates from other established video communication software like Skype for example? M.E. - Back in 2010, whe...

SK - Please introduce yourself and update us on your latest endeavors. YD - My name is Yiannis Deliyiannis, I am 42 years old and I hold a BA on Engineering & Management and an MBA. My professional career, focused mainly on business process consulting and Internal Audit, took a twist two years ago when I decided to embark on an entrepreneurship journey with tradeNOW – an online barter marketplace . Together with 3 friends, we decided to build an online marketplace where consumers and companies can trade goods, services and real-estate. www.tradenow.gr  was launched on 9 th of January 2013 and one year later has more than 17.000 members and 300 companies – mainly in Greece. We are currently raising funds to expand our operations into Europe. Meanwhile, on February we will attend a 3-week acceleration program in Silicon Valley, exploring the opportunity to establish a US – focused barter platform. SK - Your personal opinion about the Greek start-up ecosystem. W...