Margarita Dimitrijevik, physiotherapist and owner of Fizio Beauty Center in Bitola. Margarita Dimitrijevik is a young woman who has been for the past years very actively developing her skills as a physiotherapist. After working for years in different doctor’s practices she decided that it was time to open her own business that would help people with their ailments. Besides offering physical therapy, the company also offers beauty treatments, massages, manicure, pedicure, and saunas. In addition, she recently opened a fitness centre to keep up with the customer’s needs and the growing market.
Now Margarita is planning to open another physiotherapy centre, which this time will be located near a retirement home. This idea won her fifth place at the business plan competition organised by Business Start-up Centre in Bitola. With the money she won at the competition she is planning to renovate the facilities for the new centre and also buy new equipment. She is hoping to open the new facilities in spring 2010. Although she is extremely busy with setting up everything, she is still trying to attend all the trainings held by BSC Bitola. As she put it herself, “It’s never too late to learn something new.”
Having completed only elementary school, he has always been working for other people, and that was neither easy nor it paid well. He realised that only by starting his own business could he accomplish his goals. As a carpenter, he had skillful hands, but that was all he had. Starting a carpentry production was not easy, and he did not have the necessary skills to make that happen.
Much to his luck, in the end of 2007, Business Start-up Center (BSC) started its operations in Kragujevac by training young entrepreneurs free of charge. Bratislav eagerly embraced this sudden opportunity, and became one of the first members of the BSC family. And he still is today.
"BSC trainings are worth much more than any kind of financial help. Having spent the previous year participating at the BSC trainings, I have completely entered the world of entrepreneurship and acquired knowledge and skills that no money can buy", Bratislav points out.
Ambitious and venturesome, Bratislav has big plans. "Ikea is no. 1, I'll be no. 2", he says with a smile and adds his motto he once learned from a wise man: "Have big dreams, otherwise you'll end up achieving a bunch of small ones". Bratislav Petković's big dreams are coming true now.
Miroljub Matović and Lazar Dimitrijević, co-owners of “Design Studio Box”.
Miroljub Matović and Lazar Dimitrijević may seem polar opposites at first glance. They come from different backgrounds and are opposities as far as their character and work-ethics are concerned. In reality, though, they do share the same sense of esthetics, and they both have connections to Kragujevac and the local Business Start-up Centre. In addition, they are the co-owners of “Design Studio Box” which is known for its open-minded approach to new entrepreneurship trends.
"Thinking out of the box" is a motto that they both follow. Their aim is to offer services which would be innovative and of outstanding quality. While setting up the company and choosing the name for their operation they practically implemented all the knowledge and tricks that they had learned from business communication and marketing trainings. Having won the competition for the Best Business Plan organized by Kragujevac Business Start-up Center, they are now creating identity for Serbian citizens and clients from abroad.
He was a manager in two diagnostic centers in Bitola and from 2009 on a regional manager for “Neuromedika“ in Macedonia before opening the biochemical laboratory. Borce’s idea was to open a privately owned laboratory that would give services to all the people from Bitola for the same prices as in the public health sector, not differentiating between patients who are registered and patients who are not.
This idea helped him to end up in the top 10 at the BSC Bitola Business Plan Competition. His success at the competition made it possible for him to establish new contacts and to get the possibility of getting a loan, free advice, consultations and trainings from BSC Bitola. Although doubtful of entering the competition at first, Borce now says that he changed his mind. "I concluded that I was simply wasting my time thinking, because in these hard times in Macedonia it’s a real rarity to find someone who’ll give you a hand. BSC is doing exactly that. It succeeded in moving us closer to the banks and helping us. Their loans, the conditions they’re giving to us are exactly the ones that are the only solution for us."
Currently “Bitolska Laboratorija“ has two employees and plans have been made to open another branch office in the near future.
Slavica Scepanovic, Business Plan Competition winner, Bar. Aging is a natural process, even in healthy people. Everyone becomes old and illness is a part of one's life. Nevertheless, there seems to be a great shortage in any kind of social care for elderly people. Bearing all this in mind, Slavica Šćepanović has chosen to care for the elderly, since the Employment Agency launched a pilot project "Take care of elderly persons in Bar" in 2004. The activities of the project were united within the organisation Caritas in 2007.
After five years of theoretical training and practical work with Third Age persons, during which Slavica analysed current needs and expectations of the elderly, she came to the conclusion that there is a great interest in these services. Slavica decided to participate in Business Plan Competition in Bar with the plan to start an agency, which would offer services to elderly and sick persons. There is no competing agency in Montenegro at the moment, and as such it represents a unique form of non-institutional social care for elderly and disabled persons. Today the agency, named "IMPULS", operates with two full-time employees and five volunteers.
See here success stories from 2007/2008 from SPARK projects.
Results 
far as their character and work-ethics are concerned. In reality, though, they do share the same sense of esthetics, and they both have connections to Kragujevac and the local Business Start-up Centre. In addition, they are the co-owners of “Design Studio Box” which is known for its open-minded approach to new entrepreneurship trends. 
