Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
Eesti start-up ettevõte GrabCAD peab plaani meelitada Eestisse kui mitte kõik, siis vähemalt lõviosa maailma inseneridest. Kõlab utoopiliselt, kuid see pole siiski täiesti võimatu. Kahe ettevõtliku noore spetsialisti, Indrek Naruski ja Hardi Meybaumi loodud ettevõte arendab nii-öelda “kõik ühes” veebikeskkonda, milleta insenerid, projekteerijad ja disainerid tulevikus naljalt läbi ei saa. See saab neile olema ühtlasi [...]
Despite all the talk of unemployment, there are still lots of unfilled job vacancies in Estonia. The managers of three Estonian start-up companies describe how they are desperately looking for people and how all this can be a real headache. LESSON ONE “The best candidates: morgue vehicle driver and sex shop salesperson” Heikki Haldre (pictured) is the [...]
Estonian start-up GrabCAD plans to attract if not all, then at least the lion’s share of the world’s engineers to Estonia. This may sound rather utopian, but it’s not entirely impossible. The company, set up by two young technology specialists and entrepreneurs – Indrek Narusk and Hardi Meybaum – is developing an all-in-one online environment, which [...]
Cupoco, a mobile couponing system from Estonian start-up GEOVoucher will announce tonight a marketing campaign, where you can win an iPhone 3GS simply by promoting Cupoco in the social web. There will be a raffle on their website starting from 18 pm tonight. Cupoco application platform is aimed for smartphone users, merchants and service providers. The idea is [...]
In: Companies
1 Feb 2010TigerPrises spoke with Peep Laja (pictured), a “self-made” Estonian entrepreneur, living mostly in US and developing Traindom.com – the site that allows you to monetize your valuable wisdom with ease. Peep, what is Traindom? Traindom is an online platform for monetizing knowledge. It’s an all-in-one solution for creating e-courses, e-trainings, membership sites – any kind of [...]
Allow me to introduce you to an entrepreneur Noel Guinane. He has just moved to Estonia from Middle East with his wife and five children to establish a small programming studio of mobile games and apps in Tallinn. Here’s my e-mail conversation with Noel from last week. Tell me more about your company, what sort of [...]