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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. The concept was simple: motion based remote control of a robot using your mobile. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week. One example was Montroller.

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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. You’ll join others in our Freelance Mobilizer Program, recruiting people to join the Elance revolution. One thing we consistently hear is that you just can’t hire enough mobile developers fast enough.

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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. Curious Hat: mobile exploration tools for curious children. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil. Everbill: invoice and estimate service.

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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

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. First, the population was already reducing its mobility before there were official measures. There's a couple of interesting things that happened.