Back to the Balkans
What if you travel back in time to the Balkans to grow tomorrow?
What if the Balkans aren’t just where the east meets the west, it’s where the past meets the future?
A wonderful attraction of the Balkans for foreigners is how comfortably it operates in the crossroads of quaint and quirky.
Take for example one of my favorite holidays on the planet, Old New Year. There’s something great about the celebration of this holiday beyond its curious name.
It’s packed with persistence.
In spite of being tied to a calendar considered out of date to the majority of the world and in the shadow of a much bigger, better known, and more lavishly celebrated holiday with a similar name and concept, Old New Year celebrates on.
And so goes the startup scene in North Macedonia. The startups operating within the entrepreneurship ecosystem of North Macedonia are creating an amazing combination of young entrepreneur-energy colliding with an outpouring of interest, mentorship, and opportunity.
It wasn’t that long ago entrepreneurship in North Macedonia meant you operated a taxi or a prodavnica — sometimes together.
Today, in North Macedonia, being an entrepreneur means creating an app, becoming a freelancer…
