Cabins never seen before in Serbia
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Team
Montana
3
Aleksandar
Scepanovic
owner/manager
Serbia
2014
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Montana hostel and apartment is a small entrepreneurial company founded by two brothers 5 years ago. We were hosts to people from 19 countries so far. We are top rated Kopaonik accomodation on Tripadvisor. We are recommended by Lonely Planet. We have reviews higher than 90% on all the booking engines. We had presentations all over Serbia trying to motivate young Serbian people to start their own business.
No, we are ready to expand. To provide better accommodation to guests, and to show better example to young people thinking of becoming entrepreneurs.
Individuals, Loans.
We are repaying 5 year loan this April, so we will apply for another one among our savings and support from friends who believe in us. We are about to buy land next to ours and start building in summer time. Construction company that builds cabins (they built our hostel 5 yrs ago) are willing to offer us deferred payment in installments when we begin to create profit just like 5 years ago.
We are Alex and Nino, brothers and your hosts in Montana.
Both of us had travelled a lot abroad and stayed in a number of different European and American hostels, while at the same time grabbed great experience working in Belgrade hostels. All the time we were talking about having a similar and nice cottage-like place to stay on the mountain Kopaonik, but for a long period it didn’t occur to us that we would actually run our own hostel.
It was in 2009 when Ninoslav came back from Colorado where he had been working in resort Estes Park and brought with himself not only valuable experience, but great ideas and the American “Yes We Can” attitude. Yes We Can start our own business. Yes We Can make use of our small piece of inherited land on Kopaonik. Yes We Can have our own hostel.
Business plan, red tape, loan, hard work, money problems, help from friends.
Montana was built!
The only barriers were due to bad snow conditions, but having loyal customers helped us make it through every time.
Contractual relationship
Milica Stankovic and her family who run chicken farm are willing to invest and we are about to transform company by offering here 20% of campany.
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