Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
The top prize at the Helsinki Garage48 start-up project competition went to LapLab – a Web application for amateur race car drivers that allows them to improve their best lap times and car configurations. While undoubtedly a niche product – there might be only five million users in the world – LapLab will hopefully hit [...]
From time to time we hear how one or another wireless operator claims to have the highest quality of service. It probably means that some “independent expert” has been driving a tech-filled minibus from city to city and established, based on objective parameters, that a particular operator has the best wireless signal and most reliable [...]
One day I started thinking: why is it that Estonia’s tech sector is teeming with start-ups? Everybody is the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, everyone travels to Silicon Valley for networking, everyone has hopes of being the second coming of Facebook or Microsoft. Where do these aspiring entrepreneurs and “smart money” get their unshakeable [...]