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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. There is a requisite for each team to have at least one developer (frontend or backend), a designer and a marketing person. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week.

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

The Next Web

Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Interestingly enough, Russian users of two other major online work marketplaces – Elance and Freelancer - reported earlier that those also were active in engaging with Eastern tech professionals lately.

Russia 151
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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

To provide a solution to the business, Transformify Recruitment CRM and Generate have designed an end-to-end solution that tremendously cuts the costs and mitigates the risks associated with relocating employees to new countries. Via Transformify Recruitment CRM, the employers can source top talent regardless of the location. .’’

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

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers. Tealet: marketplace designed to connect tea drinkers with growers.

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13 Sites You Love Built With Ruby On Rails

YoungUpstarts

Latvia-based, this service has all chances to overcome Formspring’s popularity. Its simple design and effective services make Basecamp exceedingly helpful. This is an online community intended to share hand-made pieces of art, including graphic and web design, photography, paintings, and many others.

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