Bartłomiej Postek
A few words about me...
For 14 years, I have been the founder, investor, and manager in numerous startups and IT service companies, with a special focus on the web software industry available in the SaaS (Software as a Service) model. I began my startup journey in 2009 by founding a company in the EduTech sector – creating online courses. To date, I have developed over 20 applications that have acquired over 100,000 paying customers and over 1 million registered users. The companies I manage have sold their software and IT services for tens of millions of Polish zlotys. We actively sell in 50 countries worldwide.
In 2014, our team was honored with the title “Startup of the Year” in a competition organized by Business Link and the Ministry of Economy. This allowed me to spend nearly a month on business training in Silicon Valley.
On a personal note, I’m a father of three children, a husband, and a lover of Wroclaw (especially the downtown area). I’m an amateur long-distance swimmer and have a hobbyist interest in history, international relations (or as some prefer: Geopolitics). I love having long discussions with interesting people at various stages of life.
For years, I’ve been leading and developing communities that promote and foster entrepreneurship. This includes the Startup Founders association, BIPS – Business Individual Study Program at the University of Economics in Wroclaw, and Rebelpolis – A Community of Entrepreneurial Talents, where we help people enter the tech startup industry.
What I want to work on with a mentee is...
Expansion of an existing mentee’s venture (for-profit or non-profit) or refining it, preparing a plan, and supporting its implementation.
How I imagine my cooperation with a mentee...
I offer my knowledge, contacts, experience, and most importantly – time. I will help you turn ideas into plans, and plans into reality – as long as you meet the conditions mentioned above.
It is extremely important to me that individual actions are carried out by the mentee between our meetings. This can be reading, talking to people, or working on their venture – individual work accounts for 90% of mentoring success.
We will meet every month for longer discussions during which we will refine the action plan and support its implementation. Based on our established relationship, there’s a possibility that we might engage in a longer collaboration (with a mentee from the mentoring program at UWr, I have the pleasure of running the startup Meditalent.pl).
In relations with the other people I focus on...
Ambition, determination, empathy, loyalty – this mix of traits greatly increases the chances that, regardless of where you are today in your career path or stage of project realization, I will be able to help you identify and fulfill your full potential.
In life, nothing is certain – every plan doesn’t survive a collision with reality. What’s most important in any venture is respect for other companions on the journey that is professional development or creating a new project.
I invite to cooperation students who...
If you feel you have untapped potential and the thought of not taking advantage of all the opportunities you have at this stage in life keeps you awake, especially if this unrealized potential involves ideas for creating something new (an initiative, project, product, service, company, etc.), there’s a good chance I can help.
I am looking for someone committed to their chosen venture (for-profit or non-profit), who wants to shape the world they live in, is ready to take action, is independent, persistent, and eager to learn.