Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
Smashr – the free and addictive Android game testing how strong you are in smashing your phone became an attention magnet in last weeks Garage48 event in Tartu. “This is f…ing sick!” Kresten Buch, the Founder of HumanIPO has apparently said to this. Yet, the crazy startup has received a quite a response from social media and Estonian media. Hundreds of [...]
Yet to be officially registered startup Defolio, built over a weekend and developing a collaborative design tool for freelancers and small creative agencies, was the winner of Garage48 event in Tartu. A group of eight people, among them Ahti Heinla – a founding engineer of Skype, Siim Teller – a well-known blogger and Tõnu Runnel [...]
In: New start-ups|R&D
30 Aug 2010Yesterday 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 [...]
Multi-billion IT businesses are often started somewhere in garages, where two guys (and a dog) come together and start working on something. Estonians startup leaders have united to advocate this concept of starting businesses. They formed the club Garage48 and took events like Startup Weekend or 24 hour bit-camp as benchmarks. And now they plan to organise a series [...]