The second day of Spark.me conference in Montenegro featured a number of exciting speakers, among whom was Drew Banks from Prezi. He is currently the Head of International at this company and he gave the audience a better insight into how Prezi started, what are some of the things they’re currently doing and how theystuff

I’m just going to tell you the secret straight away: the key to working in your underware and not getting sacked is working remotely, and according to Berkun, this is the future of all work, not just the techy startup reality. He decided to experiment with the remote working model and see what other workstuff

After the keynote speaker Alf Rehn, Radu Georgescu from GECAD Group took the stage. In a fireside chat with TeresCapital’s Max Gurvits, Georgescu reflected on the past three decades during which he started, scaled and exited a number of technology companies. Radu first started in 1992 while he was still a student. He realized thestuff

The Spark.Me conference just sparked up with a rather passionate and completely unexpected talk by professor Alf Rehn, one of the most interesting new voices in business thought today. A well-regarded academic, who combines rigorous analysis with a creative and often surprising outlook on life, decided to use his time on stage to dissect astuff

If you are any kind of technology and/or startup fan, you will instantly know what are we talking about when we say TechCrunch. You will also know about their annual conference called TechCrunch Disrupt. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, here’s the geist of it. It all started in 2011 and it isstuff

You may have noticed that we have a soft spot for startups here at .ME– not only are we incredibly proud when some of those .me domain holding teams make it big in the world, but we also want to help them get there. We’ve already told you all about our Spark.Me startup competition, butstuff

The beginning of March is that time of the year when Austin, TX becomes the pop-culture capital of the world. With South by South West gathering the brightest minds and talent from the world of music, movie and tech one can only imagine what kind of innovative competitions, shows, plays (and parties) will be organizedstuff

Drumroll, please! Spark.Me, the interactive conference designed to unlock your creativity and light your creative fire is on in 2014 and this is a call for you to save the date! The 2014 event will once again take place in beautiful Budva, Montenegro. If you look up the definition of a spark, you will findstuff

Bloggers usually love comments and people who leave them. Positive or negative, they are usually productive, they say someone has read your text and thought about it. They are a valuable feedback, an insight into what our readers like and dislike, what they are passionate about, what we as bloggers need to work on. However,stuff

Blogomanija, the biggest CEE blogging conference (sponsored by yours truly, .ME) started a few hours ago and the keynote speaker was none other than Dave Trott, a creative guy, with a creative job, who has quite something to say about creativity. Trott was born and raised in East London and educated at the Pratt Institutestuff

The Spark.me conference has passed, a new one is in the making, and in the meanwhile, we asked .ME’s own Nataša Đukanović to tell us a bit more about the conference from her unique point of view. She told us what went on behind the scenes and what Spark.me would be like if it were astuff

Spark.me is now a very fond memory in the mind of many conference-goers and a part of that special experience was also a very special app created for the purposes of this conference. Backway app for Spark.me was simple, efficient, easy to use and had all the important info available offline, making life easier for all who attended. The creator of the Backway apps, Božidar Ševo, was so kind to share his thoughts on what makes a conference app greatstuff

If you didn’t know, Southeastern Europe’s most active seed investors visited a number of cities a few weeks ago and .Me hosted the Podgorica part of the tour entitled: StartTrek – StartTrek.me, to be exact! Bulgarian based funds Eleven and LauncHub sent their representatives along with guests, including .Me’s very own Itana Prljević who talked about why domains were really important to tech companies.stuff

(Featured image shows John Biggs from TechCrunch, Vukašin Stojkov from the winning startup TruckTrack and our CEO Predrag Lešić) Our Spark.Me Competition lasted both days of the conference. On Day 1, 10 startups had the chance to pitch their project to our judges. We picked three finalists who fought to win the first place onstuff

Rob Hinchcliffe came to Spark.Me from Rushmore.fm, a site that is trying to change the way we interact with our favourite artists and how we discover music. Rob used to work in publishing and journalism and he launched a collaborative blog Londonist. While he worked for Yahoo, Rob got banned from 10 Downing Street forstuff

We are on our second day of Spark.Me Conference and our agenda is packed with inspiring and interesting presentations. After Bal Balaji’s presentation on building big products fast, Chris Varenhorst a Software Engineer Dropbox took the stage. Chris is a graduate of MIT with a BA in Computer Engineering and a MA in Engineering & Computer Science. He started workingstuff

After the lunch break, conference room full of young entrepreneurs welcomed Balkans’s most renowned startup names such as Vukasin Stojkov (Startit), Maxim Gurvits (Eleven) and Ivo Spigel (Zip). Together, they elaborated more on what is the driving force behind, now a very successful and vibrant startup ecosystem that didn’t even exist three years ago. Maxim, once an entrepreneur with a company in Netherlandsstuff

Ryan Fujiu is Head at Growth at About.Me and is he is the person responsible for user acquisition. He held a lecture on the first morning of our Spark.Me conference, sharing his experience on founding two startups that – both – failed. 9 our of 10 startups fail, and Ryan believes he knows why. His experiencestuff

Finally we have made it! Spark.Me Conference is in full swing. You made it through registration and we had an exciting morning. You’ve probably also noticed that the area around you is beautiful, the weather is great, the Splendid Hotel in which the conference is being held has a pool… You’ve probably also met your friendsstuff

Today is the first day of Spark.Me conference! Before we are able to inform you on some of the most interesting speeches and happenings, we have one more interview to spark your imagination! Bogdan Iordache is co-founder and organizer of the How to Web Conference (best tech entrepreneurship conference in South-Eastern Europe) & Startup Spotlightstuff