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Building a Brighter Future for Artists
Being an entrepreneur means being creative, persistent, and ready to take risks, while never letting your fears limit you from achieving what you want. Clapsify, a young team of talents who managed to secure an investment of 25,000 euros at this year's Longest Pitch Marathon, is proof of possessing all these characteristics.
Today, in this blog post, we are talking to Bojan Simichiev, a young and successful talent who amazes with his charisma and talent for entrepreneurship.
- If you could single out one experience that shaped you into the person you are today, what would it be?
"I believe that a person cannot be shaped by one experience he has had because we all shape ourselves throughout our lives by learning from our ups and downs."
- Explain briefly, what was your idea and what problem does it solve?
"Clapsify is an online platform dedicated to hiring artists. It represents a collective of artists that allows them to promote themselves faster and easier and earn money. With this, we solve the problem of lesser-known artists being seen, promoted, and people reaching them, and on the other hand, we facilitate access to and the process of hiring popular artists."
- In one sentence, describe your experience at the Longest Pitch Marathon?
"The experience was amazing, I made a lot of connections, and had the opportunity to hear more startup ideas."
- What is the best advice or lesson you learned during the marathon?
"To be confident in myself and the idea I represent, as well as to believe in what I do."
- What after LPM?
"We aim to take Clapsify global to help artists around the world."
"I'm convinced: That what separates successful entrepreneurs from losers is persistence." - Steve Jobs
Making mistakes means that you are persistently aiming to tread the path to success, and not trying means that you have already lost."
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As founders of Widnet Solutions, Darko Micskoski and Miroslav Draganov actively participated in the Longest Pitch Marathon with the goal of finding and supporting the most innovative domestic startup ideas.
Breaking Down Barriers
How many young people haven't dreamed of being successful and achieving most of their goals at a young age? And how many adults have looked back and wondered why a certain event didn't happen differently, or why they made the wrong decision about this or that?
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