Some of the contacts I have acquired over the years are of big interest for many of you. This episode’s guest is surely one of them. He is the godfather of the brokerage concept. Thomas Roeblreiter, Consultant, FFG in Austria developed together with a contact the well-known company b2match which almost monopolized the market for brokerage and matchmaking event services.

I used to work on a proposal with Thomas and decided to drag him into the studio for a talk about how he and his business partner developed the business concept and then we have a good nice talk about the Enterprise Europe Network initiative that is supporting innovative SMEs also with internationalization and EU funding.

In this episode you have lots of information about the possibilities for SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network and of course on what brokerage events they are and how you can use them.

Time codes

00:01:39 Introduction

00:08:11 Fly in on Enterprise Europe Network

00:27:04 Enterprise Europe Network

00:45:19 EEN and funding

01:02:27 Brokerage and matchmaking

01:17:44 The toughest challenge