Blaž Zupan

Ekonomska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
Mentoring, Partnership, Investing
A serial entrepreneur, doctor of economics, entrepreneurship lecturer and co-founder of Optiprint.

Blaž Zupan co-founded Optiprint as his fifth entrepreneurial project in 2009, which leases colour printers to minimize costs of colour printing for customers. Six years later, he made a successful exit from Optiprint, which at the time had 20 employees, a million euros of revenue and more than 250.000 euros in net profit.

 

Zupan works as a lecturer of entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana and is a consultant in the field of design thinking and lean business. He has mentored and advised more than 500 business teams under initiatives such as Start:up Slovenia, BTC Camp, YES Start, SPIRIT - Mladim se dogaja, etc. His deep experience is in product development by design thinking and lean business, market analysis, marketing, distribution and sales.

 

As a business angel, Zupan also invests in startups.

Key competencies
Product Designer Business / Strategy UX Designer
Key Industry
Education & knowledge management Communication & collaboration Marketing & Advertising Media & content Design & engineering
Mentor in Programmes
P2 2013 SEF SK75 2022 SEF
Market type experience
B2B B2C B2G
Foreign market experience
United States
Experience with companies in development stages
Growth Stage
Izvedba: Mojdenar IT d.o.o.