Full Picture of the Estonian VC’s ... Last year Estonian venture capital firms joined forces by founding the Estonian Ventur Capital Association (EstVCA). Who are the players on the market today? Here’s a short overview which shows that: the Estonian venture capital market is expanding, VC culture is developing there are several...

INTERVIEW: An Insight into “cruel&...                       The biotechnology company EGeen, which mostly carries out clinical trials in Central and Eastern Europe, has demonstrated stable growth. CEO Kalev Kask (pictured) says in the interview that nowadays pharmaceutical industry has made progress and most illnesses are at...

IN DEPTH REPORT: Estonian Bioscience bre... At first sight, it seems that the Estonian chemical and biotechnology sector is experiencing obvious growth problems. Estonia is a small country, with just 1.3 million inhabitants, and hence there is probably a lack of bright chemists and biologists and, due to its young age, the state’s experience...

OUTSTANDING TRIO: Comparison of Three mo... When someone asks about the most successful Estonian Internet business, the answer would probably be Skype, with over 400 million subscribers. But how about start-ups? Fortumo, Edicy and UDC stand out as most promising ones. Let’s take a look at these companies and compare them in a subjective...

COLUMN: The Biggest Start-up Mistakes, v... Columnist Yrjö Ojasaar (pictured) continues to analyze the biggest mistakes start-ups are often making.  This time he points out the typical financing related failures. Assuming that VC money is for you VC money is not the right financing tool for everyone. Your start-up may be profitable and growing,...

Sportlyzer develops novel Training Softw... An Estonian start-up company Sportlyzer (sport+analyzer) is developing software that analyses training info for amateur athletes and accordingly plans target driven training sessions. Sportlyzer software should help amateur athletes overcome a common problem – unsteady motivation. “The person...

“Do-it-Yourself” Sexually Tr... Estonian start-up SelfDiagnostics is developing a quick-test that could easily be used at home to identify sexually transmitted diseases. In the future such minilabs could become commodities avalible at a pharmacy for a couple of hundred kroons. Executive director of SelfDiagnostics, Marko Lehes...

The biggest Start-up mistakes 2: Product...   This is a second column  from an entrepreneur and lawyer Yrjö Ojasaar (pictured), who’s a fan of TigerPrises.com. Your product is not just the innovative new app/gizmo you invented. Customers usually expect an “out of the box” single source solution for their needs. The more assembly, coordination...

IN DEPTH REPORT: Estonia’s Groovy ... What a coincidence: Estonian telecom companies declared joint efforts to provide the whole country with fast broadband Internet access by 2015 and the next day, the telecom giant Ericsson announced that it will develop a mobile networks factory in Estonia of key importance for the whole region. The recently...

The biggest Start-up mistakes: Intellect... This is a column (first from a series) from an entrepreneur and lawyer Yrjö Ojasaar (pictured), who’s a fan of TigerPrises.com Start-ups face the old dilemma – walking the path is much harder than knowing the path. Everything a successful start-up needs to know is available on the internet...