My talks
Once in a while I give a talk at either startup or industry-specific conferences, meetups or podcasts. You can listen / watch some of the talks I gave online and I linked most of my historical presentations below.
If you’d like me to speak at your event or podcast please contact me at borys@smok.vc. Just be warned that some time ago I discovered that the quality of my work is inversely proportional to the number of talks I give, so I’ve decided to limit them to a couple a year.
2024
- O polskim rynku VC (Poland.vc, Łukasz Kulicki, March 2024, Polish)
- Czy founderzy to dobrzy CEO? (Szczypta Podcase, Feb 2024, Polish)
2023
- Jak zbudować startup (Wiktor Feduń, August 2023, Polish)
- Equity Story, Interview with Borys Musielak (Dawid D. Malinowski, March 2023, English)
2022
- The European VC podcast | Borys Musielak (The European VC, October 2022, English)
- It’s not all about money. | Borys Musielak | SMOK Ventures (It’s simple, you know?, Maciej Sawicki, August 2022, Polish)
2021
- Borys Musielak – Olek Wandzel podcast (Olek Wandzel, May 2021, Polish)
- Borys Musielak – O inwestowaniu w startupy i fundusze (Escola Mobile podcast, Feb 2021, Polish)
2020
- Niecodziennik – Jak inwestować w fundusze venture capital – Borys Musielak (November 2020, Polish)
- Rozmowy o przyszłości: Borys Musielak – jak zmieni się branża gamingowa? (May 2020, Polish)
- Zaprojektuj Swoje Życie – Borys Musielak (November 2020, Polish)
2019
- Fireside Talk with Travis Sheridan about venture capital market (Venture Cafe Warsaw, August, 2019, English)
2018
- Do you really need a mentor as a founder? (Rockit, Moldova, April 2018, English)
- O startupach, o mentorach, o inwestorach, o ciężkiej pracy, o błędach, o edukacji przedsiębiorców (Startup My Way, Bogusz Pękalski, July 2018)
- Jubilerzy rynku – jak zarabiać na startupach (Global Investor Club, May 2018, Polish)
2017
- ReaktorX – Pre-Acceleration For First-Time Founders (OpenReaktor, Warsaw, Poland, September 2017, English)
- Lessons Learned from the first batch of ReaktorX accelerator (Fuckup Nights, Warsaw, Poland, July 2017)
2016
- What Stops Eastern European Startups From Succeeding Globally? (Empowering Ideas Global Forum, Yerevan, Armenia, December 2016, English)
- The Single Worst Pivot Idea (Digital Freedom Festival, Riga, Lavia, November 2016, English)
- Everything That Is Wrong with Polish Startups And How To Fix It… or Why Am I Founding ReaktorX (OpenReaktor, Warsaw, Poland, October 2016, English)
2015
- Are You Sure You Want To Found A Startup? (Geek Girls Carrots Birthday, Warsaw, August 2015, Polish)
2014
- Introducing Startup Poland (ICT Summit, Warsaw, December 2014, Polish)
- What is Startup Poland? (Konferencja Startup Poland, Warsaw, November 2014)
- Your Own Startup: Step By Step (TechCamp, Wrocław, October 2014)
- Lonely, Bankrupt, Riddled With Doubt — Life Of An Entrepreneur (Creative Morning, Gdańsk, June 2014)
- “Business Networking And Its Impact On Startup Success” (Dream Up Start Up, Białystok, June 2014)
- Startup City: Warsaw (WARP Conference, Warsaw, May 2014)
- Audience Engagement Through Personalization (MIPTV, Cannes, April 2014)
2013
- Who is killing the movie business (Aula Polska, Warsaw, November 2013)
- Network, network, network: Presentation and publicity for startups (Founder Institute Warsaw, July 2013)
- Reaching the Missing Millions: Innovative Marketing To Grow Your Audience (CineEurope, June 24th, 2013, Barcelona, Spain)
- So you wanna be an enterpreneur? Here is what you need to know. (Keynote at Startup Weekend Wroclaw, May 24th, 2013, Wrocław, Poland)
- The Future of Television: Social, Personalized and Integrated (infoShare, May 17th, 2013, Gdańsk, Poland)
- Driving Cinema Attendance Through Personalization (CinemaCon, Las Vegas, April 2013)
- The Future of the Audiences (DLD, Munich, Germany, January 2013)
2012
- “The Future of Social TV” (Aula Polska, Warsaw, December 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdY9qAxNABo (PL)
- “Building brand in international markets” (Forum e-biznesu, Warsaw, November 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKgqICG6JwE (PL) - “How to build a global business” (Akademia e-Biznesu, Olsztyn, November 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuB5issxkpY (PL) - “Code, pivot, code, pivot…” (Internet Standard 2K12, Warsaw, June 2012)
- The Future of TV (Social Media Day: Video, Warsaw, May 2012)
- “Television 2.0. Social and Personal” (Media Trendy, Warsaw, June 2012)
- “Quit your job and run a startup. Now!” (Inspiring Solutions, Warsaw, April 2012)
- Filmaster.TV in MIPCube Labs contest (MIPTV, Cannes, March 2012)
2011
- “Filmaster. History of a pivot” (Internet Beta, Rzeszów, September 2011)
- “Filmaster. Works for me” (Aula Polska, Warsaw, October 2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-foOik6uig (PL) - Filmaster.com pitch at European Startup Demo Night by BlackBox.vc (San Francisco, June 2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-skMUhGjHbA (EN) - “My plan to conquer the world” (Boatcamp, Łódź, April 2011)
- “We’re doing an internetional startup. From Poland.” (InfoShare, Gdansk, April 2011)
(PL)
2010 and earlier
- Your First Startup (PL) (SpinUp, Toruń, November 2010)
- Filmaster / Django + Python (Jesień Linuksowa, 2008)
https://vimeo.com/3635011 (low quality, PL) - Integracja Linuksowej społeczności w Internecie (Jesień Linuksowa, 2008)
https://vimeo.com/3635011 (low quality, PL) - Neutralność technologiczna i byty pokrewne (XIII Forum Teleinformatyki w Legionowie, 2007)
Other selected media appearences:
- Pokolenie Startupu – a TV series by Canal+ Discovery featuring myself as a talking head and my startups from ReaktorX as main heroes (2018).
- TV interview for TVN CNBC about Filmaster.TV (May 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqb2Z5uTqh8 - “I’m creating the Internet” (ISTV show, June 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQU2WUZZagU - Interview for Web.gov.pl after my talk at Social Media Day (May 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXlM_Gko_y8 - “Jedeyn dzień z życia: Borys Musielak” – a documentary about myself shot by TVP (Polish National TV) – not available online anymore
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