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5 Lessons From the Garage48 Helsinki Hackathon

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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. At Garage48, the goal is to produce a small startup, rather than just a really nice hack like you would at a traditional hackathon.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

Most of clients are “startups, small businesses, and solo entrepreneurs who are building their business on or around oDesk,” Cooper said. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Who needs freelancers?

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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. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. So I think at that point, in fact I've started looking into this and you actually can see the mobility in different Western countries dramatically go down after March 10th. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He wasn't a media star.