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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Europe Tallinn For decades Estonia has been at the forefront of technological and business innovation in the Baltic region. Similar to neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia, and more so its capital, Tallinn has become a playground for startup-hungry entrepreneurs.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. In Moscow, we attended the twelfth annual Congress of the European Business Angel Network , held April 23-24, at the Digital October technology entrepreneurship center. We also discovered that Estonians love to sing.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. But I think its fair to say that the Dutch post-World War II welfare state isn’t exactly breeding the young and hungry entrepreneur you find in Turkey, Romania and Estonia. However we lack some prerequisites for a great ecosystem.

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Key Insights from Every Speaker of Elite Camp 2017

ConversionXL

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. audience → technology → browser/OS report. Hybrid Product analytics organization: Central teams for tools, methods, governance. Data governance – hated but necessary: Rules of play. Relevancy – How are blogs categorized?

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Challenges and Opportunities for Europe’s Metaverse Market

ReadWriteStart

Instead, the technology has been limited to niche operators and start-ups, such as Finland’s Varjo, which makes high-end headphones, and Estonia’s Ready Player Me, a cross-game avatar platform. However, he also admits that they face major challenges. Europe has also lagged behind the US in venture to finance.

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How technology can disrupt a Government.

Start Up Blog

Any government is only all powerful as long as the system it operates under is stable, and the people allow it to continue to control its market. A Government is just like a business in many ways. While the government is a monopoly in most of its realms, what if technology could assist us to ‘go around it’?

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What living in different countries has taught me about life (and work)

Austin Startup

From running around Manhattan in 2008 selling to restaurants while the world economy was in tatters, to the first hire of a startup based out of Estonia, to my current role in Austin, Texas it sure has been a windy road. Looking at my career thus far, it has not followed a textbook game plan by any means.