I’m Bobby Voicu (pronounced Voikoo – video on how to pronounce it here), serial entrepreneur, startup co-founder and CEO at The CEO Library and MavenHut (read more about the company here), angel investor, mentor for startups (and accelerators like RebelBio and MVP Academy), Romanian living in Portugal.
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Who Am I: tl;dr version
I started my first business at 16, selling PCs. I then owned and managed some offline businesses (real estate agency, night club and others).
I started to work online in 2005, I’ve been the Romanian representative for Yahoo! in 2008, I started a consulting business in online communication in 2006, I’ve been involved in building the blogging community in Romania, sold some blogs, co-founded a startup (MavenHut) in gaming, part of the 2012 cohort at Startup Bootcamp Dublin. Left MavenHut in 2016, started angel investing and startup mentoring. In 2017 I launched The CEO Library.
In 2020 I’ve looking at a new business, still in the early stages.
Who Am I: Long version
– 2020 – new startup, early-early stage
– 2017 – co-founder of The CEO Library
– 2016 – I started to invest in several funds: SOSV III, MVP Fund, as well as on my own in some companies (Freebusy, among them).
– 2016 – I quit as CEO of MavenHut and I stopped operational involvement in MavenHut.
– 2015 – sold a big part of the games MavenHut produced to RockYou, an US company.
– 2012 – co-founder and CEO of Mavenhut, a gaming company, as part of Startup Bootcamp Dublin.
– 2008 – 2012 – sold several websites and business built in the previous period of time (among them autounleashed.com/rpmgo.com and monden.info – now urban.ro)
– 2009 – started my own online communication consulting business – FTW Media (closed in 2013 to solely focus on MavenHut).
– 2008 – 2009 – Yahoo!’s representative in Romania
– 2006 – 2012 – started a 2 hours radio show in Romania (radiolynx.ro) about internet. The show lasted for 6 years. It was early podcasting, I now realize.
– 2006 – started to build my own online businesses (most of them sold or closed by 2013, as seen above)
– 2005 – started to work as freelancer on getafreelancer.com (now freelancer.com)