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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Similar to neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia, and more so its capital, Tallinn has become a playground for startup-hungry entrepreneurs.

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5 Lessons From the Garage48 Helsinki Hackathon

ReadWriteStart

It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. Together with Osma Ahvelampi (CTO, Sulake ) and Teemu Kurppa (co-founder, Jaiku ), I was a mentor to those teams. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week.

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StartupVitamins – The Poster Boy In Startup Motivation

YoungUpstarts

Take it from the folks from StartupVitamins – its founders are a team of serial entrepreneurs who’s learned the hard way to the tune of eleven failed projects to date. ” – Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google. ” -Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter. .” ” -Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Fake it before you make it.”

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Unambition syndrome

The Startup Toolkit

And sometimes I would go to a new country and hang out with interesting startup founders. And then, I found myself in Latvia, drinking with a guy who built 2 or 3 big tech companies. Founders' Having lots of money is profoundly irrelevant to that lifestyle. But still, my insecurity remained.

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Unconditionals

The Startup Toolkit

1] This article is meant to be about strategic decisions more than about shutting down the company, but since we’re on the topic, I once got obliterated by an angry crowd in Latvia after saying something like this a few years back. But a path exists where you respect both sets of constraints. [1]

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