Ivan Minić

I founded Burek.com (2002), MojaPijaca.rs (2016), TurnKey (2016), Pojacalo (2018), Burgos (2019), Alfa Prevod (2021), DigiTalk (2021), and I have joined the team of Kliker IT center for kids (2024).

For the past twenty years, I have been balancing between technology, marketing, and entrepreneurship. I have advised some of the world’s biggest brands on their digital presence in local markets. Today, I am more focused on local businesses — both small and large — as well as mentoring and working individually with entrepreneurs. Additionally, my team and I create content aimed at helping entrepreneurs and individuals who want to grow and develop, primarily through the Pojačalo podcast and our work on the Naša Mreža portal.

Companies often engage me for lectures, workshops, and mentorship in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, personal development, marketing, neurodiversity, and more. Besides that, I have been actively participating in professional conferences, as well as numerous student gatherings and initiatives, for over 15 years.

In recent years, I have also worked as a consultant, educator, and expert on numerous EU projects, collaborating with USAID, UNDP, the Thomson Foundation, OSCE, UNICEF, the World Bank, and other organizations.

Biography:

I started my professional career in 2000, and in 2002 I founded Burek.com, the largest internet community in this region with more than 2,200,000 members, and the game of knowledge and strategy Conquiztador. I sold a share in the company to investors from Hungary when I was just 23 years old and received the first investment for an online project aimed at the local market in this region.

As a designer, developer and project manager, I worked on more than 350 projects for clients from 28 countries, in the last few years as part of Simplicity.rs. As a consultant in the field of internet marketing, I have collaborated with more than 50 of the world’s most famous brands regarding their presence on the local market. In cooperation with Telenor Serbia, designed and launched MojaFirma.rs.

I have organized and co-organized many professional gatherings since 2002, including Blogomania ’13, which gathered more than 1000 people from the region around the topic of electronic business and digital marketing on Kopaonik. He has lectured at more than 150 events on the topics of entrepreneurship, marketing and business development and self-employment.

I wrote a blog ForTheWin on the aforementioned topics, and it was repeatedly declared one of the best in the region. I occasionally write for Netokracija, Sportske.net, BeforeAfter, JužneVesti, and occasionally as a photographer and videographer I illustrated sports stories of the local publication Vice and was an associate of SportKlub.

Since September 2015, I have been elected Deputy President of the Conference of Co-Founders Register of the National Internet Domain of Serbia and since 2019 a member of the Foundation’s Board of Governors, of which I have been the president since February 2021. I was re-elected in February 2022 to a new term of the Board of Governors, and I again perform the function of president.

In June 2016, I launched the service MojaPijaca.rs with my partners. In December 2016, I chaired the expert jury of the Serbian IAB MIXX awards, the local edition of the only global competition which is 100% – digital.

From February 2017 to 2020, I taught at Faculty of Media and Communications subject Digital project management.

Since January 2019, I edit and run the podcast Pojačalo and open Burgos – premium burger bar in Belgrade.

In September 2019, I finally graduated engineering management at School of Engineering management.

In January 2021, I started a translation agency Alfa Prevod in New Belgrade.

From March 2021, I host the official podcast KK Crvena Zvezda – Pick ‘N ‘ Talk with Milan Dozet, and with Vlada Kovač and Vitomir Ognjanović I am starting a community and a podcast DigiTalk.rs .

In March 2022, I wrote the book “Not really an easy going, but a very good man“. The print version is available at many local bookshops, and the electronic version at Kobo.com .

In April 2022, I organized with my partners the first big DigiTalk conference in Zrenjanin, and then and the next one in October in Nis.

Since May 2023, I edit and manage the project Naša mreža, a portal for support and education of entrepreneurs launched by the company A1 Serbia.

Since November 2023, I edit and run the podcast Egzaktno with colleagues from Egzakta Advisory.

In march 2024. I wrote my second book “Čudan” (Awkward).

In september 2024. I became a co-owner and creative director of Kliker IT Center for kids.

In cooperation with the Thomson Foundation, in November 2024 I published a free e-book – A practical guide to starting and running a podcast from the authors, marketing and technical point of view (only available in Serbian language for now)

Photos:

Download here (50 MB) a selection of several professional photos that you can use to illustrate interviews, guest appearances and lectures.