Yesterday evening at 22, when crowds at Garage48 event in Tartu had already gone off for a well-deserved rest and beer, I spotted exhausted-looking Priit Salumaa, one of the main organizers of the event.

He gave me a video interview, describing his gushy, yet concealed feelings after 48 hours of intensive collaborative startup building, heavy brainwork in other words. Salumaa was amazed by some of the projects and he says it is likely that the next Garage48 event will be in Helsingi this October, but definately in Tallinn next spring.

Crowd of people, all together about 100 persons with different backgrounds gathered in Tartu on Friday, formed 17 groups and started building startups (working beta products) from scratch.

Yesterday evening the honorary jury announced the winner – Defolio – a collaborative designing service, backed by famous startuppers Siim Teller, Tõnu Runnel, Ahti Heinla and others. I will have separate post on Defolio and few other more interesting projects (JoinMyBet, Cashmuse, RichRats, GoSpotIt and Smashr) during this week. 

TestMarket would like to congradulate the organizers behind Garage48 – it truly is one remarkable and enjoyable event.