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Tina Ruseva
Entrepreneur, author, Speaker, festival host
Main focus: Purpose-driven entrepreneuersh
Twitter handle: @radost
Websites/blogs: http://www.tinaruseva.com , http://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaruseva , http://www.mentessa.com
Languages: German, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Finnish, Japanese
City: Munich
Country: Germany
Topics: community building, community, future work, entrepreneurial leadership, entreprenuerial empowerment, entrepeneurship, purpose-driven organisation, purpose, transformation
Services: Talk, Moderation, Interview
Willing to travel for an event.
Willing to talk for nonprofit.
The benefit of purpose is the courage to pursue it.
Tina is one of the digital pioneers in Germany. She is a renowned expert in entrepreneurship and innovation, frequent member of the jury in international startup competitions, and an expert advisor to the European Commission (European Innovation Council).
She studied computer science and communications at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. She quit to enroll in a fulltime MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at TUM in 2007 and founded her first software start-up GymZap in 2009. She successfully managed the company until the birth of her second daughter. From 2011 to 2015, she earned her PhD in Innovation Management at the University of Sofia (Berkeley & Intel Curriculum), taught entrepreneurship, and worked as an independent start-up coach. Her journey led her to Fraunhofer Venture as Program Manager and to the municipal start-up center Werk1 as Head of Startup Programs. Currently, she is founder and CEO of Mentessa, a community platform for agile collaboration, speaker and initiator of the decentralized Big & Growing New Work Festival. Her first book “Big Heart Ventures” was published in March 2019.
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