"You shouldn't go it alone, whether you're studying or starting a business," says Matúš Nosko in another interview with successful graduates of our faculty

Matúš Nosko is a senior in the master’s program at FIT VUT and also a co-founder of the successful companies MaNoSens and Guardexy—he has thus managed to combine these two time-consuming pursuits. In this interview, he speaks openly about his early days in programming, the demands of his studies, his collaboration with his brother Svetozár, and the journey from a student project to working with a major industrial partner.

How did the Nosko brothers’ journey to entrepreneurial success actually begin? “I think it was in our third year. We were brainstorming what we could do in the hardware field. We came up with ideas like so-called smart beehives. But the market was already saturated with those. And then an opportunity arose to try our hand at controlling and monitoring frequency converters. We got a lead from our dad, who had been looking for a similar monitoring system for his home for a long time. There was simply a small gap in the market. We signed up for the Booster Challenge, a summer faculty competition. A friend told us we’d get feedback on our ideas there and, if successful, some funding as well. But we couldn’t wait for the results to be announced to move forward with the project; in the meantime, we formally established the company and began testing the first products. So by the end of the Booster Challenge, we were already presenting real results." Today, both are behind the highly successful Guardexa project. How did studying IT help Matúš? What advice would he give to other student entrepreneurs just starting out?

You can find out all of this in the interview on our Job Seeker Portal. There you’ll also find other published stories from our graduates: interviews with Gabriela Nečasová, David Bažout, Kateřina Fořtová, Jiří Pavel, Petr Pouč, Jaroslav Kadlec, and Kateřina Vrána. And more will be added through the end of March.