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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. Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear. Do Not Fear! This is an Opportunity!

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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. Sixteen startups were created during the weekend. Together with Osma Ahvelampi (CTO, Sulake ) and Teemu Kurppa (co-founder, Jaiku ), I was a mentor to those teams. Focus on technology you know.

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StartupVitamins – The Poster Boy In Startup Motivation

YoungUpstarts

Hitting a rough patch and facing failure when you’re building and running a startup – and that’s going to happen relatively often – can be downright depressing. ” – 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

500 Startups has announced the 33 newest companies joining its accelerator program this Fall. It is a rather interesting and complex set of startups in the group and could be considered the most international, diverse, and exciting group in the history of the accelerator program so far. Oh, one more thing.

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Unconditionals

The Startup Toolkit

Startups are made up of people and powered by excitement. 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.

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Unambition syndrome

The Startup Toolkit

Until recently, it has caused me quite a bit of stress to see that my startup friends are clearly ambitious, whereas I am not. 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'

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