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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 himself may not understand what his training pauses are caused by. This way distaste for any kind [...]
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 reports that a patent application has been filed and a test model is planned to be [...]
The biggest Start-up mistakes 2: Product Related
29 Sep 2009This 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 and troubleshooting the product requires, the cheaper [...]
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IN DEPTH REPORT: Estonia’s Groovy Plan to cover Whole Country with Broadband Internet by 2015
28 Sep 2009What 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 established Estonian Broadband Development Foundation has [...]
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- Tags: Ambient Sound Investments, Elion, Elisa, EMT, Ericsson, Modesat, Tele2
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 and its almost always free. But [...]
Rockstar venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson: Synthetic Genomics and Nanotech booms ahead
28 Aug 2009Estonia-born US venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson (pictured) from Draper Fisher Jurvetson gave a captivating interview for us, where he analyzed what’s hot and what’s not. What are your most exciting new investments? Overall we have a lot of exciting investments in the fields of energy and cleantech – new approaches to sustainable fuels. Chemicals and energy [...]
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The founding members of Skype engineering and operations team, headed by Toivo Annus have established SUInfra – company that offers all-in-one web tool for small software developers. SUInfra, currently in beta-stage development, claims to be a solid and simple web environment, integrating bug tracking, wiki, SVN and other useful services. All in one web, no install, no setup. [...]
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- Tags: Skype, SUInfra, Toivo Annus
Smartdust got funded, congratulations!
14 Aug 2009Estonian technology company Smartdust Solutions closed an investment round with WNB Project and Spring Capital. The capital gives a boost to the development of the company and makes it possible to grow from a customer specific solution provider to “a product” company. Smartdust has also recently opened up office in Finland and is aiming for [...]
Heikki Haldre, Founder of Massi Miliano, that received in total 4,85 million EEK from the fund for its virtual fitting-room project Fits.me: “Thanks to Estonian Development Fund we have received an advantage considering our further development. Preferably the investor needs to provide more than just money, he needs to support defining strategy and he also needs [...]
Yes, that’s true - 160 projects or start-ups in two years time. Isn’t it great for a small country like Estonia? Lot of people consider Estonian Development Fund as mainly thinktank. But sending your business plan there to apply for venture capital funding is indeed worth a shot. Heidi Kakko, fund’s investment expert says they have [...]
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