Somewhere in CEE tonight, a room full of SaaS people is talking shop

📣 SaaStanak #7 Ljubljana Remote work was supposed to change everything. But what happens when founders start bringing their teams back to the office? Two SaaS founders. Two different approaches. One big question: Does where your team works really matter? 🎙️ Hosted by DDD Invoices & SaaStanak We're back in Ljubljana for our seventh meetup! This time, we're tackling one of the most debated questions in SaaS: remote vs. onsite teams. One founder has experienced both worlds and decided his team works better together in the office. The other is building an international SaaS business with team members thousands of kilometers away. Who's got it right? And is there even a right answer? Joining us are Duško Bilaković (RelayPlan) and Denis Vehovec Pondelak (DDD Invoices) for a founder-to-founder debate about managing teams, building trust, and getting things done. We'll discuss: Remote vs. onsite: Why would a founder who embraced remote work decide to bring everyone back to the office? Work from home (WFH): Is working from home a productivity booster or a management headache? Should founders give employees the choice? Managing across borders: How do you build trust, accountability, and team culture when your colleagues are thousands of kilometers away? Productivity vs. flexibility: Are remote teams really as effective, or do we underestimate what happens when people share an office? The founder's trade-offs: What do you gain, what do you lose, and what would you do differently? Speakers Duško Bilaković, Founder @ RelayPlan Building a SaaS platform that helps construction companies digitize and optimize their operations. Having managed remote teams, Duško has experienced both sides of the debate and now advocates for working together onsite. Denis Vehovec Pondelak, Co-founder & CEO @ DDD Invoices Building an API-first e-invoicing and compliance platform for international markets. With sales and marketing team members in Sri Lanka, a development team in Slovenia, and growth and business development teams in Africa, Denis knows firsthand what it takes to manage people, performance, and collaboration across borders. Why join Hear two founders challenge each other's approach to team management Learn what actually works and what doesn't when managing remote and onsite teams Get practical insights into productivity, trust, culture, and scaling Network with SaaS founders and operators from the region Agenda 17:30–18:00 - Arrival & gathering 18:00–19:00 - Founder presentations + debate & audience Q&A 19:00-21:00 - Networking and pizza About the host DDD Invoices is an API-first e-invoicing and compliance platform helping SaaS companies, ERP providers, and digital businesses automate invoicing, e-reporting, and fiscalization across international markets. By handling complex local regulations through a single API, DDD makes it easier for businesses to expand globally without getting buried in compliance complexity. Spots are limited. RSVP today!

📣 SaaStanak #6 Skopje You know you need more customers; the hard part is deciding where to go look. We have two sessions of just that: partnerships, then a live GTM build for two local products. 🎙️ Hosted by Club „Startup“ Skopje & SaaStanak Speakers Boris Murdjev, Partnerships Manager at Softr Boris came into partnerships from sales, and at Warmly he took the partner ecosystem from zero to $1.2M ARR in 15 months. Most of that time went into agencies, GTM consultants, and HubSpot and Clay service providers. At Softr he now sets the partnership approach and runs it with his team. Damjan Dano, founder of Aqtos and IT.mk, co-founder of IWM Aqtos makes BOSS, a business operating system for teams and AI agents. Projects, clients, HR and finance in one workspace that your team and tools like Claude or ChatGPT can both work from. Ilija Ivanovski, co-founder of Spiderlook and Nebula Spiderlook is an AI competitive intelligence tool. It watches competitors’ websites, social posts and ads, then turns whatever changed into clear insights and sales battlecards for agencies and marketing teams. Bojan Dachevski, Growth and GTM engineer at HeyReach Bojan helps HeyReach clients map out the processes and tools behind their customer acquisition. On the night he does exactly that for Aqtos and Spiderlook, live, with everyone watching. Sessions Session 1: Partnerships as a growth engine Everyone has had the intro call. Someone suggests a partnership, you both nod, and then nothing happens for six months. Boris has built the channel that doesn’t do that, and he’s walking through how: how he picked the first partners, what turned a signed partner into one that actually brings deals, and what he’d skip entirely if he started over. Numbers included. Session 2: Live GTM build, two local SaaS, two acquisition plans This one isn’t a talk. Damjan and Ilija each get a few minutes to put their go-to-market on the table: who they sell to, how customers find them now, what’s working, where they’re stuck. No product demos. Then Bojan takes each case and builds the plan in front of everyone. He'll cover channels, tools, what the sequences look like, and where he’d start on Monday morning. The founders react, the audience asks questions, and you get to watch someone think through real constraints instead of a tidy hypothetical. Bring your own stuck problem. A lot of it will transfer. Why join ✅ A partnerships playbook from someone who took a channel from zero to $1.2M ARR ✅ A full acquisition plan built from scratch for two products you probably already know ✅ Two founders being honest about where they’re stuck, which happens less often than it should ✅ Networking with SaaS people from Skopje and the region 🕐 Agenda 18:00 – Doors open & networking 18:15 – Welcome and intro 18:20 – Session 1: Partnerships as a growth engine, Boris Murdjev 18:45 – Session 2: Live GTM build, Bojan Dachevski with Damjan Dano and Ilija Ivanovski 19:20 – Networking Spots are limited. RSVP today!