What started as one person’s idea turned into a global social movement three months later – one that was supported by universities and recognized by the United Nations, involved a team of 20 people and reached thousands of entrepreneurs around the world. During the COVID-19......
Have you ever heard “It’s not personal, it’s just business”? Well, when you are invested in your work and that job is your livelihood, whether you founded the company or feel committed to its mission as a team member, it is personal by essence. We......
From pre-seed to series D, at Plug And Play we are continuously monitoring startups and their groundbreaking innovative technologies. We follow startups from the beginning of their journey to the process of scaling up to help them navigate the often daunting process of growing as......
Lana Kristine Jelenjev, Co-founder of BASE Conference discusses with the podcast hosts the theme of BASE Conference 2020: Humanizing Businesses Beyond Profit. Amid CoViD19, we notice more than ever that there is more to business than profit. How can we design businesses in a fast-changing,......
Just a few days before the 2020 edition of BASE Conference – “Humanising Businesses Beyond Profit”, Jara Pascual, Founder and CEO of Collabwith, hosted a special Q&A session about BASE Community with Lana Kristine Jelenjev, Author and Co-founder of BASE Conference. Lana explained how BASE......
So, you’ve done it. You’ve built a company from the ground up, proved product-market fit, and are prepared to grow. Regardless of what led you to this moment, one thing always remains the same: scaling up a business marks the end of an era. Despite......
Almost a year into the CoViD19 global crisis, the world is looking for effective ways to contain the virus and restore the economy while keeping its most precious resource – the people – safe. BASE celebrates companies that have found inspiration in these challenging times......
Creativity is a nice-to-have extra… the pretty details, the fun copy, the great campaign… right? Dead wrong. Scale-ups exist in a grey world, somewhere between being too big to stay where they are and too small to really explode. By definition, they need to grow......
This edition of our Business of Collaboration podcast was recorded last year at the TSH Collab co-working space in Amsterdam. Our guests are the founders of the BASE conference, Lana Kristine Jelenjev, a community Alchemist and Veronica Guguian, a marketing strategist. We talked about why......
When the founders of BASE asked me to share my opinions and experiences regarding scaling-up, I had to think about that for a while. A few years ago, I would have immediately thought about scaling up in relation to hiring employees. How would a sole......