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How this shy country wants to become the Silicon Valley of the Baltics

The Next Web

So when I was invited to attend the conference TechChill, taking place in Estonia’s neighboring country, Latvia, I was intrigued. What’s going on in Latvia? When you think Latvia, you (like us) might not immediately afterward think… This story continues at The Next Web.

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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. Here at The Next Web, content derives from a distributed online team based in a dozen different places – with even more freelancers and contributors checking in globally.

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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. Mobile demos are tricky, because cameras can't easily capture what's on a small screen from far, so you may want to consider using a web version, an iPad or slides. Discuss.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

They're pools of partners capital from hedge funds you've never heard off, family offices that don't maintain any kind of a web presence or some entrepreneur who sold some airport runway cleaning service in Latvia for like a billion dollars who now just jetsets around the world buying up soccer teams.

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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. Repairy: web-based customer relationship and resource management system for car repair shops and dealerships.

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13 Sites You Love Built With Ruby On Rails

YoungUpstarts

If you are reading this, you are probably into Ruby and obviously heard of Ruby on Rails – a useful and super popular web application framework. With the help of our friends from Rails Ware Web Development Company , we have gathered 13 famous sites built with Ruby on Rails framework: 500px.

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