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Qminder and MafutaGo - Two Garage48 Alumni Among Top 20 apps at Mobile Premiere Awards January 31, 2012
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Garage48 Tallinn Music 2012 rocks your socks off January 30, 2012
This time Garage48 is truly going to ROCK! Our fifth event in Estonia, this time called Garage48 Tallinn Music 2012, is focusing on creating web and mobile based music and entertainment products. For that we’ve joined forces with the music industry conference and festival Tallinn Music Week. Garage48 Tallinn Music 2012 takes place March 23-25 at Ülemiste City in Tallinn, Estonia and Tallinn Music Week follows a week later.Read more » -
Garage48 successful year 2011 in numbers (infograph) January 02, 2012
I am really delighted what Garage48 achieved in 2011, we had 11 events worldwide, started from Estonia and got as far as South Africa. 2 of our alumnis got investments, that was truly amazing. 2012 is going to be even bigger, better and challenging, we are looking forward organizing more events in Europe (Ukraine), in Africa and maybe even in South-America. Here are Garage48 most important numbers about 2011. (Ragnar Sass) Read more » -
Garage48 Johannesburg winner is building mobile app for African healthcare December 03, 2011
Garage48 is an event to build new web and mobile service working prototypes in one single weekend – in 48 hours. 6 teams presented their services on Sunday Demo night on 4th of December at Vodacom World centre, Johannesburg, financial capital of South Africa. International jury announced Garage48 this year last event winner as Mediminder, that is building mobile platform for African healthcare.Read more » -
Projects developed @ G48 Riga November 19, 2011
25 ideas were pitched at SSE Riga University on Friday 18th of November, where Garage48 Riga 2011 Vol. #2 was kicked off. Many of the ideas were really well thought through and 13 of them got the needed team behind to be able to start development. The 6 member Jury announced the winner to be Mustache Ninja which connects real-life game with mobile application.
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Projects pitched on Garage48 Riga 2011 November 18, 2011
Garage48 Riga has started, we have full house of hackers, designers and entrepreneurs from 10 different countries. We have great sponsors and mentors all supporting the great ideas and teams working over the intense weekend. Here will be the live list of ideas pitched on the stage. You are welcome to give your comments or follow the event via Twitter feed #garage48
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Garage48 Riga Famous For Great Sponsors and Amazing Special Prizes November 15, 2011
Garage48 is proud to present Garage48 Riga Vol2 sponsors starting with the company, which has produced number #1 ranked social and mobile games, 1LIFE, continuing with brand new fund investment fund in the region, Rubylight and well known innovative companies like Skype and Tele2 Read more » -
View of Garage48 by an African Startup Enthusiast November 10, 2011
What influence does Garage48 have to local ICT communities? Richard was the local organizer for Garage48 Kampala in September 2011. He has seen how the event has changed and given meaning and motivation for ICT community in Kampala even within 6 weeks already. Read more » -
Garage48 Finishes 2011 in Johannesburg November 02, 2011
Ragnar Sass, the founder of Garage48 says he is proud to be invited to South Africa that has really promising ICT community. “We have seen really strong interest from South African IT communities and people, so we can be sure to have an excellent event in there”.
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Qminder proved cooperation between Seedcamp and Garage48 to be successful October 28, 2011
Garage48 Tartu 2011 winner Qminder won Seedcamp Prague! This is already second team from Garage48 hacking weekend, which becomes a part of the selected ones by most prestigious startup acceleration program in Europe. First company, Campalyst from Riga's event was actually a reason, why Seedcamp was confident enough to partner with Garage48. Since August this year Garage48 can pick one team from each event to be sent directly to Seedcamp. Qminder proved the cooperation to be successful.Read more » -
Garage48 will be back in Riga! October 07, 2011
Garage48 arrives back to Riga! Most famous hackathon and startup event in the region takes place on November 18 to 20 at SSE Riga. Read more » -
Garage48 Nairobi Winners and Projects September 30, 2011
25 ideas were pitched at Strathmore University on Friday 30th September, where Garage48 Nairobi was kicked off this year. Many of the ideas were really well thought through and 10 of them got the needed team behind to be able to start development. Live demos of the prototypes were presented on Sunday evening, 2nd of October to the jury and audience.
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Somesha will educate children through crowd funding platform September 25, 2011
First startup hackathonin East-Africa launched 11 new web and mobile projects at Kampala, Uganda. The purpose of the event is to build new web and mobile service prototypes in one single weekend – in 48 hours. International jury announced Somesha as the winner. Somesha is a platform to raise money for disadvantaged students through crowd funding and collaboration with NGO'sRead more » -
Garage48 Kampala 2011 Winners and Projects September 24, 2011
Garage48 in Kampala was our third hackathon in Africa to turn ideas into working prototype. 11 teams of developers, designers, marketers and entrepreneurs working hard over the weekend to launch their products (prototypes) for Sunday evening. Below you will find the winners and all other projects launched, plus people within those teams. Thanks to Google, Nokia, MTN Uganda and all participants - this was truly amazing weekend!Read more » -
Ben Rooney from The Wall Street Journal visiting Tallinn & Garage48 HUB September 22, 2011
Ben Rooney from The Wall Street Journal visited Tallinn this week and Garage48 HUB was happy to host the meet up. Estonian capital was one of the most suggested destinations out of other 40+ cities in Europe in his list and according to Ben, he is amazed. Nation of 1.3 million people and the number of startups created is most definitely the best ratio in Europe and simply incredible. Read more » -
Crash Development weekend Garage48 goes to Africa September 09, 2011
Ragnar, Elise, Andres and Helen fly from different parts in the World to bring the craziest crash development weekend to Kampala and Nairobi. This September will prove to be challenging. You can participate if your heart is beating for it developments and making a difference. Read more » -
Garage48 Tartu winner is the queue management system Qminder August 29, 2011
The 7 member Jury announced the winner to be Qminder which revolutionizes customer service through a queue management system. By the end of September Garage48 will pick out a project to get direct access to Europe’s most valued investment programme Seedcamp. Read more » -
Garage48 Tartu 2011 Winners and Projects August 27, 2011
Garage48 is a series of 48 hour hackathons to build new web and mobile services. Some of those projects have become real startups. Last event took place in Tartu, Estonia where 100 developers, designers and entrepreneurs launched 14 projects on Sunday evening demo night. Below you will find the winners list and all projects launched and people within those teams. Please follow Twitter hashtag #garage48. Read more » -
Projects pitched on Garage48 Tartu 2011 August 26, 2011
Garage48 Tartu has started, we have full house of hackers, designers and entrepreneurs from several countries. We have great sponsors and mentors all supporting the great ideas and teams working over the intense weekend. Here will be the live list of ideas pitched on the stage. You are welcome to give your comments or follow the event via Twitter feed #garage48. Read more » -
Garage48 gives fast-track access to Seedcamp August 26, 2011
One big question after each Garage48 startup bootcamp event is what will happen to the teams after the event. To break out from their own country to Europe and across the world, joining an international incubator program is a good way for any team to rock the world. A great example is Campalyst (http://www.campalyst.com/), born at Garage48 Riga earlier this year, attending Seedcamp New York as a presenting company and then being awarded a Seedcamp investment.
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Garage48 Kampala registration is now open - follow the path in Africa August 19, 2011
Garage goes to Uganda and Kenya this fall. We have already been to Ghana and Nigeria in May this year and now we are spreading to more countries in Africa.
Makerere University in Kampala Uganda holds the event from 23rd to 25th of September 2011.
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Estonian Air is looking for the best travel app and awards you with special prize August 08, 2011
Estonian national carrier Estonian Air and Garage48 Tartu Premium Sponsor is announcing competition for the best travel app. Estonian Air will award the best team with a special prize. Read more » -
Nokia is on board with special prize, devkit and tech mentor August 03, 2011
Garage48 Tartu has a mobile focus and therefore we are happy to present mobile giant Nokia as our Premium sponsor. Nokia is looking for new innovative solutions for their Nokia Meego and Symbian^3 phones, gives the resources for development and special prize for the best apps and teams.
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Garage48 hackers competition: Act NOW to get all-costs-covered month in Silicon Valley! July 15, 2011
Exclusive competition for all the hackers around Garage48: Apply for a month in the US at 500 Startups with Zerply!Partnering with one of the greatest startup accelerator in the world and one of the coolest startup from Nordics, Garage48 is looking for kick ass PHP developer, who can fly immediately to the Silicon Valley and help Zerply out to rock on Demo Day at 500 Startups.Read more » -
Garage48 continues it’s road in Tartu and paving the way to 5 new countries! June 21, 2011
After short Summer break Garage48 continues its world famous hacking weekend. Lovely student city of Tartu in Estonia is the first on the road. Event takes place from the 26th to 28th of August 2011 at University of Tartu. Autumn will also bring new countries on Garage48’s map, including Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Russia and Sweden.Read more » -
Projects on Garage48 Accra 2011 May 13, 2011
Garage48 in Accra is our second event in Africa to turn ideas into working product or prototype. We have developers, designers, marketers and business people working hard over the weekend in 6 teams to launch their products (prototypes) on Sunday evening. Here is a live list of all projects and teams. Please follow the event via #Garage48 Twitter feed. Read more » -
Ideas pitched at Garage48 Accra May 13, 2011
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Lagos winner Callcamp revolutionizes customer service sector! May 08, 2011
3 world tech companies, Google, Nokia and Blackberry joined forces with Garage48 Foundation to hold first ICT bootcamp in West-Africa. Garage48 that originally started from Estonia in Northern-Europe it has now expanded to Africa. The purpose of the event is to build new web and mobile services in one single weekend – in 48 hours.Read more » -
Ideas Pitched at Garage48 Lagos May 06, 2011
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9 Projects launched on Garage48 Lagos 2011 May 06, 2011
Garage48 is an event to turn your ideas into working prototypes or services within one weekend, just 48 hours. Another great Garage48 sleepless weekend took place in Lagos, Nigearia. 9 enthusiastic teams started working on Friday evening and launched their new services on Sunday demo night on 8th of May at the Lagos Resource Centre, Victoria Island. Read more » -
Self-evaluation toolkit for your ideas May 04, 2011
I have seen many ideas on Garage48 projects and elsewhere. I thought it's time to share my ideas on this matter. It's a long text and requires non-trivial amount of effort, but good ideas need time to develop and mature. None of the questions below will give you clear-cut good/bad answer but they hopefully help to extend your view on the idea.
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Garage48 was awarded as “Best Organization of 2010” by ITL April 27, 2011
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Garage48 are landing on Warrior King country - Ghana! April 24, 2011
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launched in Ghana on the 13th of May. Garage48 Accra is second in Africa, following the Nigeria’s gathering, which was sold out in just 4 days. Extreme developing weekend for local technology professionals, entrepreneurs and marketers will take place at Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT. -
Garage48 follow-up questionnaire April 20, 2011
More than 600 people have participated in Garage48 6 events and launched 95 projects. Let's look back to Garage48 first year. What has been done and what participants think of Garage48 events and its' outcome.Read more » -
18 Projects launched on Garage48 Tallinn 2011 April 15, 2011
Garage48 Tallinn was an event to turn your idea into working product or prototype. We have over 120 people working hard over the weekend in 18 teams to launch their products (prototypes) on Sunday evening. Here is a live list of all projects and teams. Please follow the event via #Garage48 Twitter feed or see photos on our Facebook Page. Read more » -
Ideas pitched on Garage48 Tallinn April 15, 2011
Garage48 Tallinn is about to start, people gathering. We will list all the ideas pitched on the stage here in this blog post. After pitching, all participants should choose their favourite ideas and form teams. Read more » -
Garage48 celebrates first birthday with another event in Tallinn, Estonia April 15, 2011
On April 15-17th the second Garage48 weekend startup bootcamp takes place in Tallinn, Estonia, celebrating exactly 1 year from the first Garage48. The event, each time attended by over 100 people, is full of great startup ideas, hard work and fun. The venue is this time Tehnopolis Ülemiste City smart business center in Tallinn, Estonia.
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Microsoft provides free Windows Azure cloud platform for Garage48 Tallinn teams April 15, 2011
As a premium sponsor of Garage48 Tallinn 2011, Microsoft is inviting Garage48 teams to its cloud services platform Windows Azure.
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Garage48 will expand into 5 African countries April 11, 2011
Waka Waka for African startups. The team of Garage48 is happy to announce that in cooperation with two famous technological giants Google and Nokia there will be first two Garage48 events in Africa. The first event will be in Lagos, Nigeria from 6th until 8th of May. The second event is in Accra, Ghana from 13th until 15th of May. Our goal in 2011 is to organize the event in five different countries, we are currently doing preparations to have the events also in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa.
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Garage48 African jorney will start in Lagos! April 11, 2011
For the first time in its existence, the Garage48 event series is coming to Lagos. Together with two world companies, Google and Nokia, it will take place from the 6th to the 8th of May 2011 at the Lagos Resource Centre, Victoria Island. Originally developed in Europe, Estonia and expanded to other countries, the purpose of the event is to build new web and mobile services in one single weekend - 48 hours.Read more » -
First 30 days of Lastehoid.net - 350 Babysitters, 500 FB Fans and 6000+ visitors March 30, 2011
Lastehoid.net is a service to find babysitters based on your location and other specific search terms. We launched in Estonia during Garage48 for Public Services in February and now looking to expand to other countries.We launched the site on noon of 27th of February and started to post links and content to different family oriented portals in Estonia. We invited babysitters to join our database and mothers to visit our website. First 24h brought us 1000 visitors and 70 nannies signed up in our database. Here are quick notes of the 30 days of our project.Read more » -
Garage48 is hiring a project manager March 28, 2011
We wish to take Garage48 events and HUB to a next level by improving the quality and offering more value to the community. Therefore we are seeking for a new talent to our team, who will get a postition as Project Manager.
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Projects on Garage48 Riga 2011 March 26, 2011
36 different ideas was pitched on Friday night in Riga, 17 ideas were able to form teams and started to work on their project. We update the projects list over the weekend to list project teams, websites and other information. Read more » -
Ideas pitched on Garage48 Riga 2011 March 25, 2011
Garage48 Riga event is live in SSE Riga and people are pitching ideas on the stage. This is a live list of ideas pitched. Later on every participant will choose their favorite idea and start building the project. Read more » -
Garage48 for Public Services 2011: winners and runner-ups February 28, 2011
We had an awesome weekend in Tallinn University this weekend (25-27. February 2011) thanks to Open Estonia Foundation and of course all the participants. On Sunday evening about 150 people were listening what had been achieved during the weekend. Read more » -
Conclusions from Garage48 Public Services 2011 February 25, 2011
Garage48 Public Services took place in Tallinn 25-27 February 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia. We had 70 people and 24 ideas were pitched and 11 projects were built over the weekend within 48 hours. Read more » -
Garage48 helps Estonian and Baltic start-ups to join Microsoft’s BizSpark program February 25, 2011
Garage48 Foundation joined Microsoft's BizSpark program as a network partner. BizSpark is an international initiative to help early stage start-up businesses keeping their costs lower for the first three years. The program is completely free to join, and within three years Microsoft offers free software, support services and assistance for startups to get their offerings on the world map.Read more » -
3 great mentors from UK at Garage48 Public Services February 17, 2011
We have 3 great guys from UK coming to Garage48 for Public Services: Tony Bowden, Adam McGreggor and John Bevan to be mentor our teams and provide their expertize. Each of them have something unique to offer for your teams from their wide experience and know-how on development of public services and working with government organizations. Read more » -
Registration is opened for Garage48 Public Services January 25, 2011
We are proud to present: Garage48 Public Services first round registration is now opened. We invite you to take part of Garage48 event that has a little different goal. This time the projects aim is not to make money, but to be useful for the society.Read more » -
Garage48 for Public services, 25 - 27. February 2011 January 21, 2011
Garage48 Public Services will take place in Tallinn University from 25 - 27th February 2011.Read more »
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Website badges for Garage48 teams January 16, 2011
Every project launched in Garage48 events could include a Garage48 badge on their website. Please choose a colour and style based on your preferences. Read more » -
List of projects built over the weekend in Garage48 Helsinki January 15, 2011
Garage48 is about building your idea into working service in just 48 hours. There were 31 different ideas pitched on Friday night and 16 of those ideas were able to form a working team. Here is a final list of all projects and winners. Read more » -
Garage48 Helsinki: List of ideas pitched on the floor January 14, 2011
We have about 120 people gathered to Aalto Venture Garage and people pitch ideas. Here are the list of ideas pitched on the stage. Everyone had 90 seconds to pitch followed by 2-3 questions. After pitching all participants have to choose their favorite idea and form a team. The teams that got enough team members will be marked as "Approved". Other ideas will be shut down. Read more » -
Garage48 Helsinki - Windows Azure Challenge Starts Now! January 09, 2011
As Microsoft is a premium sponsor of Garage48 Helsinki 2011, they announced Windows Azure Challenge for Garage48 teams. Read the terms and get prepared! Read more » -
Garage48 and Estonian startups in Croatian magazine Globus Weekly January 05, 2011
In December, journalists from a famous Croatian magazine Globus Weekly was visiting Estonia. They met Estonian President and several politicians, people from culture, business and other industries. Estonia is well-know for it's IT solutions and a growing startup community, the magazine wanted to meet Garage48 to talk about Estonian startup scene. Read more » -
Garage48 was awarded "pioneer of the year" 2010 December 30, 2010
Garage48 was awarded "pioneer of the year" by Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations. "It's the ideal example of citizen action, where people with ideas come together, do something and achieve real results. Now crossing country borders," say said in the press release. Please see full press release (in Estonian language) Read more » -
Garage48 for Public Services, February 2011 in Tallinn December 20, 2010
Garage48 for Public Services aims to build new or better web and mobile services for public use. While organizing the previous two Garage48 events Estonia, we have noticed that in addition to pure business-oriented projects, participants have also proposed ideas that do not intend to make money, but would be useful to the society.Read more » -
Garage48 HUB - an open co-working space in Tallinn November 27, 2010
Tallinn has growing startup and technology community, but lacks a cool and open space for people to work, learn, network, innovate and relax together. Garage48 is about doing things fast. So we will open Garage48 HUB on 1st of December 2010, only 2 weeks from the initial idea.
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Garage48: T minus 48 hours and counting November 24, 2010
For the first time in its existence, the Garage48 concept is coming to Helsinki. It will take place on January 14 to 16, 2010 at the Aalto Venture Garage. Originally developed in Estonia, the event’s purpose is building products in a single weekend. The motto is “Less talk, more action”. It’s about taking an idea to a product in 48 hours.
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Girls team M-Farm wins IPO48 in Nairobi! November 02, 2010
IPO48 was a boot-camp style event in Nairobi, Kenya in late October. Martin Villig and Ragnar Sass from Garage48 team helped HumanIPO to organize the event in Kenya, which was similar to Garage48 event series. HumanIPO also put up a 10,000 EUR seed investment as a price for the winning team. Read more » -
Post-mortem guidelines for Garage48 teams September 09, 2010
Garage48 allows you to turns cool ideas into working products and services just in 48 hours. Teams are formed organically based on 1 minute pitches. The whole process involves lot of surprises and unpredictable. Many people come to Garage48 to have fun, get something ready, boost their motivation and find new contacts. Some people come for building a real business. What happens after the Garage48? Here are few suggestions and guidelines.Read more » -
Garage48 Tartu - launched projects August 29, 2010
Garage48 Tartu has 17 super energetic teams building and launching services today at 6pm EET. Follow the projects and vote for your favourites. You can follow the demo event via live video stream or look at photo gallery. Read more » -
Garage48 badges for project's websites August 28, 2010
Here are few Garage48 badges for the projects launching their websites and services. Read more » -
Garage48 Tartu - Ideas in Process August 27, 2010
The follwing ideas survived the vote and formed as teams. Given team/project names are most probably to change during the weekend. Read more » -
Garage48 Tartu - the Ideas list August 27, 2010
The ideas pitch will started at 19:00, the following ideas are presented - 90 sec for a pitch 30 sec for questions: Read more » -
Garage48 in Tartu is on the Way! August 27, 2010
At 18:15 in Liivi 2, Tartu the next Garage48 event was launched with over 100 participants. Read more » -
Michael Jackson, ex Skyper and now Partner at Mangrove Capital Partners visits Garage48 August 05, 2010
We have a good news to share - former Head of Skype Operations and currently active VC Michael Jackson will visit Garage48 weekend in Tartu late August.Read more » -
Garage48 Tartu - 2nd round of registration is open August 02, 2010
We are happy to announce that the second round of registration to Garage48 in Tartu was opened today. There are still places for graphic designers, web, mobile and software developers. Read more » -
Conclusion of the Tallinn weekend, April 2010 April 24, 2010
The weekend before saw 16 new potential startups created on pure enthusiasm and caffeine. This was Garage48 the first of its kind in Estonia. Here are our thoughts after a week. Read more » -
New services launched on 1st Garage48 in Tallinn April 18, 2010
First ever Estonian 48hour startup boot-camp event is finished by now. 40 ideas were pitched, out of which people formed 16 teams and started to build the services late Friday evening. Today, 48 hours lates we had the same 16 teams on stage to live-demo their working prototypes and services. Read more »
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