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Our Members
Sebastian Aguas
Chinese-English-Czech interpreter specialized in automotive and machine installation projects — Interpreting and translation services with more than 15 years of experience with technical and business interpretation for global companies like Toyota, Skoda Auto, Continental and many others. Completed over 100 CCC audits in European countries.
Jan Romportl, PhD
senior AI consultant — Independent expert with 20 years of experience in AI as a researcher, entrepreneur, consultant, and speaker. PhD in Artificial Intelligence, 7 years as a director and chief data scientist at O2 AI Centre. Services include AI strategy and audits.
Mark McGuinness
coach for creative professionals — Coaching talented, inspiring and ambitious creative professionals since 1996. Author of four books for creatives and contributor to 99U’s international best sellers. Host of The 21st Century Creative podcast.
Tomas Dundacek
developer of web apps and online stores in Ruby on Rails and React.js — Developing web apps and online stores with an emphasis on usability and functionality, using Ruby on Rails, React.js and PostgreSQL as core technologies. Degree in Informatics and over 9 years of experience as a software developer and a team lead.
Petr Pouchly
business development consultant and designer of business strategies — Senior expert on business development and especially business transitions from one level to another, bringing the tools and know-how entrepreneurs need in order to succeed. 25+ years of experience, from corporations to nonprofits.
Josef Jebavy
software developer, Linux server admin and consultant — Linux server admin, IT consultant and software developer well-versed in Java, Bash, PHP, Python, SQL and other programming languages or technologies. University degree in IT from the prestigious Czech Technical University in Prague.
Tomas Cernovsky
digital marketer focused on social media and PPC — Generated more than €41 million for clients in campaign revenue through online marketing in 11 years of professional practice. Experience with top brands such as O2, Skoda, and Heineken.
Highlights
News & Updates
October 29WEEKLY DIGEST #44 OF 2026
- How To “Create” A Personal Brand As A Freelancer – Lizzie Davey argues every freelancer already has a personal brand—in their email replies and in what clients say about them. No influencer theater required, just shaping it on purpose. Drawing on her path from Upwork bids to inbound referrals, she weighs the trade-offs and shares three rules for what to keep private, starting with “share the lesson, not the wound,” plus a hub-and-spokes model for growing beyond one-to-one work.
- I'm Not Doing 996 – Elena Verna pushes back on “996”—9am to 9pm, six days a week—as a badge of honor in AI startups. Hard work isn’t constant work, she argues, and productivity gains only raise expectations. She writes about company culture, but her lessons fit freelancers just as well, since nobody will protect your time but you. Elena suggests naming your boundaries out loud, judging output over hours, and trying a five-year regret test when work and life collide.
- Let Your Clients Make Terrible Decisions – When a good client insists on a decision you know is wrong, Sara Gibson argues that your job is to advise, document, and then let them make it. She shares two email templates—a “paper trail” note that flags the risk once without sounding like “I told you so,” and a “pivot proposal” that turns the eventual fix into a new paid sprint. Her rule of thumb is simple; you can’t care more about their business than they do.
- Rethinking Your Work After Thirty Years – On the Wisepreneurs Podcast, Nigel Rawlins talks with cognitive scientist Lia DiBello, who argues that people don’t learn anything new—they reshuffle what they already know. Her “strategic rehearsals” compress years of business into a day, so people can fail, iterate, and rebuild their thinking. She also explains why lasting success means balancing finance, operations, and supply and demand, and why experience pays off on the second try.
- The Growth-by-Addition Trap & The Way Forward to a Simpler, More Profitable Business – Are you trying to grow your freelance business by adding new offers, channels, and tactics? Austin L. Church calls it the growth-by-addition trap—each move makes sense on its own, but together they leave an overgrown business full of half-finished projects and obsolete offers. Hidden inside, he argues, is a simpler, more profitable one, and the way to find it isn’t another addition but deliberate subtraction.