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 RazvojniPlus 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.