Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
A former Elion employee Ardi Kristovald (pictured) has founded a startup called GlobeMarket that plans to create an interentrepreneurial data exchange platform – in essence, syncing up very different business software programs (SAP, Oracle, MS, Erply et al). Kristovald says the solution would be geared above all to manufacturers and distributors/resellers. The goal is to [...]
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 [...]
22.märtsil avaldas TechCrunch uudise “Erply: Skype of Business Software?” Lugu rääkis tarkvarainseneri Kristjan Hiiemaa (pildil) ja tema partnerite idufirmast, mis võitis Seedcamp 2009 konkursi ning pakub ettevõtetele nägusat ja käepärast äritarkvara. Techcrunchi uudis, pühendatud Erply 24 miljoni kroonisele investeeringule USA ja Euroopa riskikapitalistidelt, kasvatas mõne hetkega firma kodulehe külastatavuse sajakordseks! Tegelikult on Erply briti firma [...]