Navigating the world of innovative personal finance tools with Bulgarian startup founder Zornitsa Nikolova
plus preparing for season 5 - Romanian Startups!
Hello from your friend in Bucharest, Romania.
In this issue: planning for season 5 - Romanian startups!, my chat with Zornitsa Nikolova from Viziwealth, dad joke of the week, and Thanksgiving!
Season 5 - Romania!
That’s right! For season 5 of the Innovators Can Laugh podcast I’m coming back to Romania and interviewing Romanian Startups.
A few of them that will be on the podcast include:
Ionut Vlad from Tokinomo
Gabriela Constantinescu from Chambr
Dan Huru from Meetgeek.ai
Diana Florescu from Mediaforgrowth
Alexandru Anghel from Solo
And more!
Question - What other Romanian Startups would you like to see on the show? Feel free to let me know here.
Innovators Can Laugh
In the communist regime back in Soviet times, you didn’t have a labor market. The job is found for you. So if you had quit, you couldn’t easily find another job especially if you were not a communist party member. So in Zornitsa Nikolova’s eyes, her father was like a hero.
This shaped her beliefs and desire for personal freedom. For creating for yourself options when others didn’t see them. For fighting to survive and do what she really want to do and not be somehow oppressed by the circumstances. This is why she is trying to create Viziwealth. Hear our chat on Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube and other players here.
Tune in to hear Zornitsa’s story including:
15:53 – how has wealth management changed from ten years ago?
18:15 – what do users get excited about when they start using the platform?
23:25 – who was the first investor for Viziwealth and what was that experience like?
24:15 – if I would give you $10,000 to grow your business, how would you spend it?
25:44 – are there any channels that are helping you get new users?
29:20 – who is a brilliant entrepreneur in Bulgaria that you’d like to give a shout out to?
30:45 – a favorite movie you can watch again and again?
31:30 – along the way of creating Viziwealth, you learned a lot about __________.
Funny dad joke
Every now and then I get a joke sent to me through LinkedIn (I usually send jokes to new connections as a way to break the ice). This one was sent to me by Atanas Kostadinov. Check it out on TikTok 😆
Thanksgiving in the Buch
Here’s us and some friends diving into dessert on Thanksgiving Day.
Thank goodness the Marriott provides Thanksgiving meals. There’s no way the turkey could have fit into our little oven!
The End
I ate so much pecan pie and turkey this past week that I’ve gained at least a kilo. I gotta ask Luigi, the 62 yr old Italian fitness guru I see at the gym, what his recommendation is to lose weight. 😆
To kicking butt this weekend!
Eric M.