Category: Interviews

  • Online trends for entrepreneurs: autonomous washing machines and online child rearing

    Online trends for entrepreneurs: autonomous washing machines and online child rearing

    Raising children will soon be done not with colouring pencils but with iPads. This and other technological developments can no longer be ignored, says Danny Mekić during the Week van de Ondernemer (Week of the Entrepreneur) in the MKBuzz. Multidisciplinary internet expert and young entrepreneur Danny Mekić is one of the speakers during the Week…

  • Interview with Avenir, VU University Amsterdam

    Interview with Avenir, VU University Amsterdam

    Danny Mekić (26) first became an entrepreneur at the age of 12, literally working from the attic of his parents’ house. Fourteen years later, he is working on his third company, a consultancy firm run by teenagers and people in their twenties, and he’s replaced his parents’ attic with the board rooms of 40 of…

  • ‘Don’t get online just because your neighbour is’

    Whoever wants to be an online entrepreneur should first make sure they have a very specific goal. No matter how enthusiastic internet consultant and online entrepreneur Danny Mekić may be about online entrepreneurship, companies shouldn’t expect results too quickly. Some entrepreneurs become active on the internet just because their competitors are too. “That’s making a…

  • France24

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qz-AN5oqgs Netherlands in crisis: the end of the Dutch model?, France 24, 3/4/2013 Editor in chief: Caroline de Camaret Producer: Julie Dungelhoeff Reporters: Valérie Labonne, Julie Dungelhoeff

  • Danny Mekić’s week: entrepreneur, teacher, lecturer and technology expert (interview ‘Backstage’)

    Danny Mekić’s week: entrepreneur, teacher, lecturer and technology expert (interview ‘Backstage’)

    It’s not a matter of if but of when education will be digitalised. Young, successful entrepreneur and teacher Danny Mekić (26) warns us for the ‘Google school’. “It’ll be much more fun than regular school, but it’ll be sponsored by commercial companies. But the expertise is in the schools.” Monday Technology and the internet –…

  • Facebook limits unpaid features for entrepreneurs

    Facebook limits unpaid features for entrepreneurs

    Facebook’s Timeline shows less and less ‘social’ posts: ones from friends, colleagues and/or companies that you are a ‘fan’ of. If you want your message to be shown on Facebook with no limitations, you’ll have to pay for it. Internet expert Danny Mekic’: “You’ll see more and more ads, more and more often, and on…