Alex Negru
Marketing, online, entrepreneur, free.
Educational background is in marketing, but the love for the online is since the dial-up times. Advertising and communication strategies were the subject of the first business started after ending faculty. The good memories of that period are the clients I worked with. Foreign clients that had businesses in Romania.
As time passed I wanted to make a change, to create strategies not for someone else’s business but for my own business. The start-up idea did not came easy nor early.
I started the year 2012 looking for ideas, opportunities but nothing came. So, I started help some old partners and friends with marketing for their business and so I learned a lot of insights and in the end I found an opportunity for a new business. Actually it is a really new category : real time payments, .
What now is called Minutizer – real time payments for real time services – it’s a payment system, a pay-per-minute plugin for skype. We bring the real time payments where the communication already takes place: on IMs (Instant Messaging). We started with Skype and then we will continue with Yahoo Messenger, AOL/AIM and Oovoo.
Beginning of August 2013 is the beginning of my first start-up business in IT, using a scalable business model.