{"id":37561,"date":"2023-10-20T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/aleksandar-svetski-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:50:52","slug":"aleksandar-svetski-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/aleksandar-svetski-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleksandar Svetski &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/aleksandar-svetski.jpg\" alt=\"Aleksander Svetski\" title=\"Aleksander Svetski\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17761\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/aleksandar-svetski.jpg\" alt=\"Aleksander Svetski\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/aleksandar-svetski.jpg 90w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/aleksandar-svetski-61x75.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/>Name:<\/strong> Aleksandar Svetski <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Green Tiger Energy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greentiger.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Tiger Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 24<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> NSW<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-4296\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aleksandar Svetski is the founder of Green Tiger Energy, which is in the business of solar and renewable energy systems, and is tipped to take the sector by storm.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s been a long haul for Svetski, who left home at 19 and lived in his car for a few days before making up some payslips and convincing a real estate agent to let him rent an apartment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After trying his luck on the stock market, Svetski found himself $200,000 in debt, which prompted him to develop his skills and start a business.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not until 2009 that my eighth or ninth attempt at a business actually made a decent profit,\u201d Svetski says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friend and I had started a sales company out of my lounge room and quickly expanded. The success of this venture was the culmination of all the lessons that took place in the preceding years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In order to build Green Tiger Energy, Svetski tried unsuccessfully to secure a bank loan, which meant he was forced to self fund the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a way to push through, against all odds, and with four staff became one of the most profitable new businesses in Illawarra,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also became the first and only Illawarra-based company to expand across multiple states and successfully duplicate the model.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Aleksandar Svetski Business name: Green Tiger Energy Age: 24 State: NSW \u00a0 Aleksandar Svetski is the founder of Green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}