Marco della Schiava

Passionate and highly motivated to work in a startup with creative and innovative people!

Hi, my name ist Marco and I am looking for passionate founders and entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas or already established products, who are seeking for creative co-founders or specialists in project management, marketing and finance. Already during my studies at WU, I started my first self-employed job as an advertising agency in 2014. After two years in advertising, in 2016 I started my first startup project together with a colleague - a smartphone app that always shows you the latest events and restaurant openings in the city. After working on it for about 1.5 years, we had to stop the project as our business experience wasn't big enough at that point to really bring the project to success. From 2017 - 2019, I then worked as CFO at a fintech startup, where I was mainly responsible for financial planning and acquiring private capital and public funding together with the founder. One year of that I lived in London to raise the company's profile in the fintech scene there. After deciding to start something of my own again in 2019, I co-founded the service-oriented user research company rapid user feedback (user-feedback.at) with a colleague. In the last two years, with the help of research grants and customer projects, we have been able to build the company together into a well-running service company that currently has 3 employees. However, since it was clear to me from the beginning that I would like to work on a product with scalability potential again, I have decided to step down from my active role in 2022 and remain only a shareholder. Therefore, I am currently looking for like-minded people to start a new challenge.

Startups, Co-founder

Several years of experience in founding and managing small businesses and startups. Professional skills in project management in the field of marketing, advertising, financial planning and funding (public grants and venture capital) of projects. Entrepreneurial mind-set and a high motivation to work with like-minded people, who are interested in founding a new venture.