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What are you doing next Friday evening? I have an idea. We have one great and ambitious startup to hack. There are many startups around and we have picked some, which has cool team behind, potential and have done some miles already. Sometimes they miss a little to take the next step and get things going. We are aiming to help these startups and offer them boost track: one evening with community effort to get something done. We believe in pay it forward culture in the startup ecosystem and this is great opportunity for people in the community to make great difference with little effort at one evening. First team to hack we have selected is Sliptree (formerly Ranits). Read more »
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DDVE combines technology, design and entrepreneurship. It's a perfect masters program for a working professional - the classes are held on weekends, 3 times a month. Next application deadline on April 16th! All teaching is done in English, the location of DDVE is in Tehnopol, Tallinn, Estonia. The program is provided by Tartu University Viljandi Culture Academy. Read more »
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Rails Girls in Tallinn is over and we have inspired 30 shiny-eyed girls to become a programmer. Or if not really a coder, they still have their first web application to show and they know what's "string", "array", "hash" and HTML, CSS, jQuery, API and many other weird words and acronyms. With the event Skype, Garage48 Startup HUB and Rails Girls opened a tech field to the girls in Estonia! Read more »
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For the first time in the Region Startup Monthly Vilnius conference will take place in Vilnius on 13th–15th April. The most promising startups, entrepreneurs and developers from the Baltics and Scandinavia are invited to participate in this three-day event. The guest list includes potential investors, mentors and speakers from Europe and Silicon Valley (USA), the global centre of startups. Read more »
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Startup Sauna is Helsinki based international startup accelerator involving many startups from Russia, Baltics, Poland and Finland. The accelerator takes no equity, but their companies have already secured 9.4M€ of funding. Read more »
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Garage48 Startup HUB starts with a pitching, mentoring and networking events. Focused on internet, mobile applications and technology at large, it's meant for newcomers in startup world and early stage startups.
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Rails Girls will be finally in Tallinn! World famous programming workshop exclusively for girls will take place on March 10, 2012 at Garage48 Startup HUB in Tallinn, Estonia. This one day event aims to bring girls to technology, providing a great experiences for ladies with no programming experience on building a working web application. Read more »
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Nordic biggest startup blog ArcticStartup will start it's new season of ArticEvening events in Tallinn, on the 1st of March. The theme of the event is startup metrics and we have William Wolfram, the founder and CEO of DealDash giving a presentation at the event. In the talk he said they're obsessed with metrics and have seen great many ways they can help take the company further. Read more »
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Open Coffee Club was initially started to enable better communication between entrepreneurs and VCs. Usually VC-s sit in their fancy offices and entrepreneurs have difficulties to pitch their ideas and get direct feedback. OCC initiative was launched in London by Saul Klein, partner of Index Ventures. Saul wrote a simple blog post in 2007 and the initiative took off really fast. Today OCC is well know technology startup community meetup format around the world. Read more »
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Here is a great list of Baltic startup companies. Have a look, see what others are doing, get inspiration and maybe apply to a job in your favorite startup. Read more »
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Startups from Estonia and elsewhere have discovered Garage48 HUB inspiring place to come by, meet and work. Resident desks are sold out and it's busy also downstairs, where part timers hang out. Read more »
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This article is an "insider's view" to Estonian Startups, ecosystem and future outlook. It's written by Priit Salumaa, one co-founder of Garage48. The article was originally published in the University of Tartu blog, we thank them for sharing the content with us. Read more »
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Year 2011 was the 1st full operating year for whole Garage48 foundation and also 1st year for Garage48 HUB. We created an infograph to look back on some numbers and than our sponsors, who made all those great events possible. Thank you as well for being part of our community! Read more »
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Every week we will invite one investor, entrepreneur, founder, geek, guru or top specialist on his/her field to meet startups face to face. These people have agreed to come to Garage48HUB and give your startups a hard push. It’s not long time mentoring program, but one time chance to discuss your startup with someone really experienced. If you like each other, you can continue the discussions later. Read more »
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Last week 50+ people gathered at Garage48HUB to listen one of the recent Estonian startup success story GrabCAD, led by CEO Hardi Meybaum. GrabCAD raised $1.5 million in seed funding in June this year. Hardi, turning down all the other meeting requests, gave one time lesson about raising money in US. Read more »
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July 26, 2011 at 18:00 2nd seminar on world famous startup accelerators and how to raise money in the US at Garage48 HUB. Insights and real-life experiences is shared by different startup people and insiders from accelerators.
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June 8, 2011 at 18:00 unique seminar on world famous startup incubators/accelerators at Garage48 HUB. Real-life experiences is shared by different startups from TechStars, Springboard, Seedcamp, 500startups, Y Combinator and Start-Up Chile. Read more »
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To celebrate Summer holiday season and great work done all trough the year, Connect Estonia asks startups and people in the business for informal networking event on June 15, 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia. Read more »
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Priit Vaikmaa from Textmagic gave a presentation in May 2011 about how he has built a business with outsourced team. Please see his slides and follow-up in case you have comments or ideas. Read more »
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Garage48 Foundation joined Microsoft's BizSpark program as a network partner. BizSpark is an international initiative to help early stage start-up businesses keeping their costs lower for the first three years. The program is completely free to join, and within three years Microsoft offers free software, support services and assistance for startups to get their offerings on the world map. Read more »
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We have a new exciting event planned for the HUB members and Estonian startup community. It's going to be a webinar with experienced entrepreneur and VC Chris Risley, plus Estonian angel-investor and entrepreneur Yrjö Ojasaar. Read more »
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Garage48 HUB is a non-profit community initiative, which is financed by membership fees, donations and sponsors. We are growing step-by-step as normal "startup project". We eagerly needed cool bean-bags and kitchen furniture for the HUB, so we organized a "Christmas sponsor campaign". We were looking for 7 companies to support the campaign. The campaign was successful and we found 7 great companies!
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Garage48 have had an amazing year - 2 events in Estonia and opening the HUB. Time to look back on the year, hear feedback from Garage48 teams and make plans for 2011. Of course some glögg, piparkoogid and networking are part of the event. Agenda and registration in Facebook page. Invite your fellow HUB members and Garage48 teams. Read short notes from Garage48 teams... Read more »
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Garage48 HUB Tallinn is officially open from 1st of December. We invited Estonian startup community and tech people to our opening party to see the facilities, network and disco dancing. Read more »
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Garage48 HUB is a new and exciting open office space in central Tallinn for creative, tech and entrepreneurial people not just from Tallinn, but all around Estonia, Europe and beyond. Read more »
