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by jkaljundi 16y ago
Depends what you consider "inventing". The Estonian technical co-founders of Skype were working together with Janus and Niklas already during Kazaa times, and were co-founding shareholders and behind the whole Skype architecture from day on
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by jkaljundi 16y ago
Related issue is becoming an Apple developer in many countries, which used to be almost impossible or just take months. In many cases they did not accept credit cards issued in most countries of the world, when signing up. In other cases it
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What has Apple got against Eastern Europe?(economist.com)
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Founders Fund raises $107M third fund (SEC filing)(deals.venturebeat.com)
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Skype to unveil group video chat function(npr.org)
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New Graph API from Facebook developer documentation(graph.facebook.com)
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
I believe this quote from Paul Graham is relevant here: "Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
They said there are huge opportunities for growth. They can expand into berries. Or fishing. The pitch and jury questions section was funny as hell. That counts. Seriously though, as a small 4-person team they developed an impressive mobile
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Quite often 50% of the team members is design/development, another half is marketing/biz dev. For Garage48 we had people who were doing a huge amount of stuff in those non technical areas: making real business partnerships with restaurants/
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
In Tallinn we also had a great mix of people, from high school and university students to experienced professional people. Even 2 of the Skype founders, who have written core part of that product and made hundreds of millions in exits, were
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Fun projects for mushroom fans or tracking how much parliament members attend the sessions are definitely not signs of a bubble :-) One of the projects on the other hand made a lot of fun out of funding/exit bubble, making it their key them
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
True, sorry! We actually do most of our communications locally in Estonian and use different terms, which get lost in translation :)
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
If 2-3 of the 16 projects would turn into real businesses, we would be extremely happy. If at least half of them continue as websites or free software, that would be great as well. Let's also not forget, that if the people are great and tea
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, changed the title of the submission. Absolutely agree, that for now most of these are just quick projects, that might grow into real companies. Ideas are cheap, execution is what matters. These were ad hoc project
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16 new services launched in 48 hours in Estonia(garage48.org)
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Twitter User Streams preview doc(apiwiki.twitter.com)
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Yes, it is somewhat similar, but there are many ways to approach this market. It's the same like any recruitment business: although you should ideally cater equally for job seekers and employers, at the end of the day you tend to focus more
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
The interviews BTW are Friday to Monday, 4 days. Many teams probably stay until Tuesday. Hackers and Founders sounds interesting, might drop by, thanks for the suggestion.
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Same for me, flying there from Estonia in a few days, most probably staying March 26-31 (interview on 29th). In addition to above, would love to meet other teams during those days. Our project is http://Emp.ly/ (still in very early protot
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Full list of the blocked sites includes Pokerstars, Partypoker etc: http://f.postimees.ee/f/2010/03/10/329436t55hf931.jpg By using DNS-based domain blocking, of course our lovely government also blocks all non-monetary gambling and casual
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Estonian government starts blocking foreign gambling sites(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
http://emp.ly/ - a job posting and sharing tool for hiring via social networks. P.S. Don't forget: It's the last few days to apply 4 many startup incubators: http://shrt.st/cs7 (NYC Seedstart, Openfund, i/o ventures, Sproutbox, YC). Gre
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Agree! I even thought, if I should mention the previous participants but skipped it, since many of the programs are so young, only in their 1st-2nd year. But if possible, it's a good idea to reach out to previous teams, in startup world, th
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
No it's not. It does not matter.
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Try to dig into the content part: who are the mentors, lecturers, what activities take part. Forget comparing the money, it is mostly for living costs. Think who can take you to next level in 1-3 months time, what help you need.
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Please add any others I have missed and I'll update the list.
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by jkaljundi 17y ago
Go for it, just do it! If it's an useful service, you'll make people in France happy. They are your customers. No reason to feel bad because the US services don't want to provide their services locally in European countries (and no, transla
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Online business model revenue gap(kaljundi.com)
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by jkaljundi 18y ago
These times are great and many of us are loving the recession. For some ideas how to startups should take this positively, see http://kaljundi.com/2008/10/28/10-reasons-startups-love-rece...