Relationships
The lock is still there. Are they still talking?
In Hamburg, I looked at all those love locks and had one question: how many of these couples no longer even speak to each other?
Valon Asani · Founder of dua.com & MIK Group
Be the one.
Know your roots.
I’m Valon. I believe we become stronger when we keep our word, love with respect and carry our Albanian roots forward. I share what I’m learning while building companies and a life between Kosovo and Switzerland.
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Personal growth
Whose advice are you building your life around?
Don’t take advice from someone whose life you would not want to live. That is the blunt version of what I shared.
Life between cultures
KONCENTROHU: the podcast mission I set out in Prishtina
The original KONCENTROHU mission: Albanian values, people with something to contribute and conversations that move us forward. Plus the studio update.
Conversations that go deeper.
On building companies, connecting people and life between cultures.
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Life between cultures
Shared Albanian interests should come before party loyalties
A comment framed the discussion about protests through party loyalties in Kosovo. My reply was to listen to people’s demands and judge the issue itself.
Personal growth
Before the next restart, understand what went wrong
Some of my ideas never became companies. Others failed after launch. My reply to a frustrated builder was about learning between attempts, including my restarts with…
Personal growth
The choices I meant when I said: stop waiting for luck
A viewer asked how to break a run of bad luck. My reply came back to ordinary decisions: work, movement, reading and the way we approach…
Three ways in.
Love well. Live your values. Carry our roots forward. My stories begin with Albanian life and speak to anyone asking similar questions.
What I challenge: disrespect, broken promises and pride that never becomes care or action.
About Valon
Love well. Keep your word. Know your roots.
I’m a Swiss-Albanian founder between Zürich and Prishtina. I build ways for people to connect and grow. I want our values to show in how we love, build and care for the next generation.
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