Estonian entrepreneurs have launched a new company, called Starship Technologies, in London, manufacturing self-driving delivery robots. Founded by former Skype co-founders, Estonian Ahti Heinla, and […]
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Jaan Tallinn, one of the co-founders of Skype and an investor in Fleep among other firms, talks about the future of business communication. Skype was
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On 29 August 2003, six people from Estonia, Sweden and Denmark launched a new product in Tallinn. On its first day, 10,000 people downloaded it.
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Despite having a population of just 1,300,000 – just a sixth the size of London’s – the tiny Nordic country of Estonia has more business
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I recently shared some thoughts on how surprisingly hard it has been to adjust to the fact how mundane and bureaucratic everyday activities still can be
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A tiny Estonian outfit offers a way out of the credit crunch and, possibly, a way to rebuild banking I have started making loans to
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Estonian hackathon Garage48 had a prolific weekend in Tartu, where a number of new innovative start-up firms were set up in a space of two days. Garage48 hackathonis
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The creation of new hobby groups for 10-19 year olds involve getting instructed in robotics, programming, mobile app and web design. The idea was generated
It’s rarely when “mafia” actually refers to something positive. However, “Estonian mafia” (or #estonianmafia for Twitter users) has come to describe the entrepreneurial phenomenon stemming
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One of the founding engineers of Skype and Kazaa recently visited Australia to sound a warning to the human race: fasten your seatbelts, as machines are becoming so
