Category: Interviews

  • ‘Real estate agents have to start looking for new products and services to offer’

    ‘Real estate agents have to start looking for new products and services to offer’

    He’s an internet expert and an entrepreneur, a consultant to major companies and often seen or heard sharing his opinions on TV and on the radio. Danny Mekić, age 28, specialised at an early age in many currently relevant areas: new technologies, media, law and entrepreneurship. He’s been one of the best rated speakers at several…

  • “We need to constantly reinvent ourselves”

    “We need to constantly reinvent ourselves”

    Danny Mekić was the moderator of the ‘Butterfly in the boxing ring’ meeting on Saturday, 1st of November, organised by the Dutch Topsport Community (Top Sports Community, TC for short) in Noordwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. In the well-know hotel Huis ter Duin, some twenty guests got together to talk about young, new companies challenging…

  • Technology is racing forward

    Technology is racing forward

    Orchid growing with Google Glass and a robot that folds your laundry  Last October, Rabobank Gouwestreek organised an event entitled ‘New technologies: Google Glass’. Guest speakers Danny Mekić and Mike van Rijswijk told us all about the technological developments going on at the moment, and demonstrated Google’s flagship invention: Google Glass.  “We live in interesting…

  • “When times are changing, never forget the beauty in your craft”

    “When times are changing, never forget the beauty in your craft”

    “Any entrepreneur should constantly be looking for their distinctive qualities. What makes you the best at your trade? What can you offer this changing society? Is this the area of work that suits you best? Everyone has their role, their function; and the key is to find your unique strength. Estate agents too can ask…

  • Entrepreneurship: ‘When it gets difficult, you’re doing it right’

    Entrepreneurship: ‘When it gets difficult, you’re doing it right’

    Danny Mekić first became an entrepreneur at the age of fifteen and with his third company now, he works as a consultant to various multinationals. The internet expert urges entrepreneurs to continue to develop themselves and to promote themselves. This interview was published in the newsletter of UPC. Danny Mekić was born and raised in Amsterdam,…

  • Entrepreneurship in 2020

    Entrepreneurship in 2020

    If you were born before the dot-com bubble, read this! — from the Dutch book ‘Ondernemen in 2020’ Technology is developing fast, very fast. Many entrepreneurs are having trouble keeping up. Understandably, because most entrepreneurs were born before the internet. Young entrepreneur Danny Mekić advises large companies on their online strategies. “The roots of large,…