Boris Wertz, who has invested in hundreds of companies, is still seeking out new opportunities.
He most looks for two things: A passionate entrepreneur and an emerging niche subsector.
Wertz is one of this year’s inductees to BC Tech’s BC Innovators Hall of Fame and he said he knows what it is like to be a young entrepreneur in a fast-growing niche sector.
That combination of strengths is what he had in 1999, when he and four university buddies co-founded JustBooks in Germany.
The concept started when they had trouble finding used books to buy. They decided to build an e-commerce website that sold a wide range of books.
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