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Startup and accelerator notes

What I have learned building startup and accelerator programs from Belgrade: how accelerator programs actually help founders, what startup funding here looks like in numbers, AI adoption, regional cybersecurity, and building small products without being a developer. Longer pieces here, shorter thinking in Serbian on LinkedIn and in English on X.

AI adoption18 August 2026 · 8 min read

The gap is not the technology, it is the readiness

What I keep seeing between what frontier tools can already do and what organizations here are set up to absorb, and what actually closes that gap.

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Regional cybersecurity2 July 2026 · 9 min read

Nineteen startups in eleven countries

The mapping of early-stage cybersecurity startups across Southeast Europe, and why only two confirmed active product startups sit in Serbia.

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Building without code11 June 2026 · 8 min read

Non-technical, on purpose

Notes from shipping small products with AI tooling: what these tools genuinely do, where they stop, and why I would rather find out from the inside.

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AI adoption1 September 2026 · 7 min read

The 95 percent number, and what it actually says

MIT's NANDA researchers found that 95 percent of enterprise generative AI pilots produce no measurable return. Read closely, that is not a verdict on the technology.

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Regional ecosystem5 August 2026 · 7 min read

398 million euro, 109 deals, and what that means from Belgrade

Southeast Europe attracted 398.3 million euro of venture capital across 109 transactions in 2025, up nearly 40 percent. Here is what that scale actually implies for founders here.

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Founders14 September 2026 · 9 min read

How to build a startup from scratch

The honest sequence, written from the side of the table where I sit: what to do in the first ninety days, what to ignore, and where most people here actually lose the year.

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Serbian ecosystem8 September 2026 · 8 min read

One in three Serbian startups made no revenue at all

The 2026 Startup Scanner numbers are blunt: a third of startups here earned nothing last year, another third earned up to 50,000 euro, and a quarter are planning to raise over a million.

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Serbian ecosystem12 September 2026 · 8 min read

43 million dollars, and who actually got it

Serbian startups raised around 43 million dollars in 2025. Fewer deals, bigger cheques, and a selection filter worth understanding before you plan your own round.

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