Most people probably do not feel completely at ease when they hear the word “presentation”, whether it involves preparing a presentation, public speaking connected with it or hours spent sitting and listening to a scripted demonstration. The Czech company PresentiGO is attempting to change that and is finding success in persuading large clients such as E.on, UPC, GE Aviation and Linet that it has the cure to “presentation phobia”.
On Thursday, 1 June, several hundred conference-goers packed Kino Lucerna to hear nine speakers talk about their experience with managing people across the broadest range of fields – from outfitting bathrooms to saving lives – and the atmosphere was electrifying.
A merger of game development studios has occurred within the Rockaway group’s start-up division. Dreadlocks Ltd, which to date has focused mainly on developing games for computers and game consoles, is taking the mobile studio Silicon Jelly s.r.o. under its wing. That latter studio now bears the name Dreadlocks Mobile.
At the beginning of April, a workshop for students organised by the Klub of Investors was held at the University of Economics in Prague. In the course of the workshop, three members of the Rockaway team shared their views on the matter. Here is what they had to say.
The venture-capital division of the Rockaway group is being reinforced with the addition of Jakub Daxner, who was previously part of the Private Equity team at McKinsey & Co. and has experience with project management on 13 markets. Jakub’s role at Rockaway Ventures will consist in seeking out new start-ups and assisting with the development and expansion of those already in the Rockaway portfolio.
