startup Archives - Octavian Patrascu

12-May-2022

Building a Brokerage House – Tech. Markets. People. Costs.

This is the third post in the Building a Brokerage House series. The first article sketched the business’s general layout, helping you define your services, product package, and target audience, while the second article put the intricate regulation side in perspective. I’m about to go deeper...

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06-Apr-2022

Here’s how I took CAPEX.com from the initial idea to global startup status

Find out in the following few lines how I transformed CAPEX.com into a global startup business (article published in Finance Magnates): Octavian Pătrașcu is a Romanian angel investor, and founder & CEO of CAPEX.com, a leading global broker. Throughout his career, Mr. Pătrașcu has been involved...

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13-Dec-2021

Starting up a startup 7: The scaling stage – from startup to scaleup

The scaling up stage can be a decisive moment for your startup. Premature scaling can even lead to the collapse of your business, while scaling your company too late can result in missing key opportunities during your startup’s development. In the following lines, I will talk...

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29-Nov-2021

Starting up a startup 6: The anatomy of failure – why some startups fall apart from the very beginning

Having a brilliant idea that you can turn into a product or a service attractive for customers, helping your company grow just like in fairytales - that’s a dream scenario, which can fall apart just as quickly as it started. If in the previous article I...

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17-Nov-2021

Starting up a startup 5: How to get your startup traction

The previous article explained how to design a Minimum Viable Product, giving you a personal example with the CAPEX.com trading platform. Now I'll go one step further and talk about ways you can get traction for your startup. What is initial traction? Launching a business involves risks,...

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startup Tag

Building a Brokerage House – Tech. Markets. People. Costs.

Here’s how I took CAPEX.com from the initial idea to global startup status

Starting up a startup 7: The scaling stage – from startup to scaleup

Starting up a startup 6: The anatomy of failure – why some startups fall apart from the very beginning

Starting up a startup 5: How to get your startup traction