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Recently we opened a Linkedin group for Garage48 events' alumni and mentors; feel free to join if you are among them! Read more »
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For the first time Garage48 took place in Ventspils, Latvia on May 10-12. 90 visionaries, developers, designers and marketers came together this weekend to make amazing ideas come true. Altogether 30 ideas were pitched, the best 14 were transformed into working prototypes by Sunday afternoon. After a tough decision process tonight, the jury chose ClassnoteApp as the winner and PictoneApp, ShuffleMyFridge and Visand as the runners-up. Additionally, ShuffleMyFridge became the Favourite of the Audience and Visand received Microsoft Special Prize. Award for the Most Fun Demo went to BLSH.IT. Selleza received the title of 'Innovative' while NapkinDigital and ClassnoteApp were awarded A Special 'Innovation Award' from Credit24.
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Out of 30 ideas pitched on Friday, 14 attracted a team and started product development. Passionate people are working days and nights to deliver working prototypes already by Sunday 17:30 for Live Demo. Read more about the ideas in progress.
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Garage48
event has come to Ventspils, Latvia on 10-12th May. Altogether 90 people from 9 countries (Latvia, Russia, UK, Estonia, Morocco, Egypt, Denmark, USA and Slovenia)
have gathered for a weekend to make awesome things happen.
30 ideas were pitched and the best 14 are ready to be turned into working
prototypes. Stay tuned to see the results on Sunday 17:30 at our Live Demo Event.
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Garage48 took place for the second time in Kiev, Ukraine 26-28th April. 81 visionaries, developers, designers and marketers gathered this weekend to make awesome things happen. Alltogether 31 ideas were pitched, the best 14 were turned into working prototypes during the weekend. After careful consideration on Sunday, the jury picked Tootorial.co as the winner and PlanTo.co as the runner-up. Favourite of the Audience was Monekid. Award for the Most Fun Demo went to 3D-Lab and for the Boldest Idea to Bit-hedge.com. Monekid got the Microsoft Special Prize and Help4Free Skype Special Prize.
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Out 31 ideas pitched on Friday, 14 attracted a team and started product development. People are working days and nights to deliver working prototypes already by Sunday 17:30 for Live Demo. Read more about the ideas in progress. Read more »
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Garage48 is happening already for the second time in Kiev, Ukraine 26-28th April. 81 visionaries, developers, designers and marketers have gathered to make awesome things happen this weekend. Alltogether 31 ideas were pitched and the best 14 will be turned into working prototypes during weekend. Tune in Sunday 17:30 PM for Live Demos.
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After long winter
holidays Garage48 will take place in the heart of Ukraine - beautiful city of
Kiev. Be ready to dedicate your weekend to the adventurous trip of new ideas
and their realization on the 26th until 28th of April 2013. To make the event even more FUN, connect the Eastern European countries, we are bringing Estonians, Latvians and Belarussians with us to Kiev on a bus "roadtrip". Come and join us! There are limited seats available Read more »
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Garage48 Tallinn Music 2013 was all about building music and entertainment products. From 28 ideas pitched on Friday, 11 managed to create a team and start product development. After careful consideration on Sunday, the jury picked Theatre Jockey as the winner and Cinema On-demand as runner-up. Favourite of the Audience was DrawMusic and Colto Ladder Race got the Microsoft Special Prize. Read more »
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Garage48 Tallinn Music 2013 is all about building music and entertainment products or services in 48 hours. Here are all the 11 projects in progress. Tune in Sunday evening 5:30 (+2 GMT) to see the prototypes in action during Live Demo. You can vote for your favourite at our Facebook page.
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Garage48 Tallinn Music 2013 takes place for the second time at Technopolis Ülemiste in Tallinn, Estonia March 22-24 to bring together different people to develop kick-ass web and mobile based music and entertainment products. We started out with everybody having 90 second chance to introduce their ideas, give a short overview of their background and say what they need to be able to build a prototype during the weekend.
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Garage48 is coming back to Kiev! Garage48 Kiev 2013 week-end is taking place already 26-28 April, being part of the Kiev Startup Week initiative - whole week full of startup related seminars and workshops. Motify.me as Garage48 Kiev 2012 winner and EastLabs startups accelerator program alumni has had a full year of achievements and would like to invite everyone to take part in the next Garage48 48-hour bootcamp event. Read more »
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MIT Global Startup Workshop (MIT GSW) will take place on March 25th-27th in Tallinn, Estonia. The MIT GSW is the world’s premier workshop dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and building entrepreneurial ecosystems globally. Garage48 Tallinn Music 2013 week-end hacakthon 2 best teams will have a great chance to pitch their idea in front of international professionals and win the MIT GSW tickets to get the fullest of this event. Read more »
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Are you passionate about the Estonian startup scene? Do you want to leave your mark to make it even better and help Estonian startups succeed? Over the last years, Garage48 HUB co-working and events space has grown to be the leading centre of Estonian startup activities. To take it to new level, we’re now looking for a new super person to manage all the activities of the HUB. Please see the job offer below, share it or apply yourself. Read more »
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Less than 3 weeks remain until Garage48 Tallinn Music kicks off. We are almost set to go, with many participants signed up and lots of interested people from neighbouring countries. All this is happening thanks our partners: top music mentors from abroad and our sponsors. Read more »
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Last week-end Garage48 Minsk 2013 was held together with BEL.BIZ Organization in IPP which resulted in 10 interesting new solutions made during the week-end. MetricsCat impressed the jury the most with an analytics tool for mobile app users and developers. MetricsCat came the winner of the 1st Garage48 Minsk event. Read more »
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First time in Minsk, Garage48 is a weekend hackathon where developers, designers, marketers and business gurus have gathered to turn their ideas into working mobile and web applications within 48 hours. From 29 ideas pitched on Friday, 11 ideas managed to attract a team and started product development. For Live Project Demos tune in via LIVE STREAM on Sunday at 5.30 pm (GMT+3)! Read more »
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Garage48 season of 2013 starts off hot! First time ever in Minsk, Belarus total of 29 ideas were presented. Crowd is full of energy and laughs, even the pitchers were dancing:) Check out all the presented ideas below and come back tomorrow to find out which went into development and are being turned into working prototypes by Sunday. Read more »
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Garage48 hackathons are alway looking for innovation. We are happy to present Microsoft as our great supporter this season bringing top quality professionals to mentor the teams during week-ends, organizing special interesting seminars also for Garage48 hackathon participants and giving out devices. For Microsoft it's very important to support Eastern European developers and give them more motivation to participate in events like Garage48. Read more »
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This time Garage48 is truly going to ROCK! Garage48 Tallinn Music 2013, focusing this year even more on creating web and mobile based music and entertainment products. For that we have joined forces with the music industry conference and festival Tallinn Music Week and want to bring top mentors specialized in that field. Garage48 Tallinn Music 2013 takes place March 22-24 at Technopolis Ülemiste in Tallinn, Estonia. Top 5 developed ideas will have the possibility to pitch their idea at Tallinn Music Week Conference. Read more »
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The very first Garage48 Minsk 2013 event in Belarus will be held already from 1-3 March. To make the event even more FUN, connect the Eastern European countries, we are bringing Estonians and Latvians with us to Minsk on a bus "roadtrip". Come and join us! There are limited seats available Read more »
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Startup Vitamins is a recently launched project, which offers inspiring posters with sayings from industry leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Jason Fried, and more. Garage48 as one of the partners of Startup Vitamins has their own poster as well! :) Read more »
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We are really delighted to announce and kick-off Garage48 season 2013 with the very first event organized in Minsk, Belarus from 1-3 March. Garage48 Minsk 2013 will be the first 48-hour international bootcamp initiative organized together with BEL.BIZ and BSUIR (Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics) in Belarus. Read more »
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When I heard Garage48 was
going to open their seaon 2013 with Belarus event and I was asked to write what has happened with Qminder, the Garage48 Tartu
winner, I was in New York City about to meet a client in
Manhattan – so you see, a lot has happened!
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After a sold-out TechCrunch Baltics conference last year, TechHub Riga is running its winter conference again on February 12th, 2013, only this time under the name TechChill Baltics. The same pan-Baltic and European crowd, more great speakers from the region and of course the best beer and chilly weather!
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Latvian startup Fastr that started at Garage48 Valmiera 2012 hackathon week-end raised seed money 50 000€ from Angel Investor & Valmiera Business and Innovation Incubator. Read more »
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We are really delighted with what Garage48 achieved in 2012. Like every startup we had our ups and downs, but overall year has been successful. 2012 brought us 6 events in 4 countries, we reached to new destinations in Valmiera, Kiev and St. Petersburg and for the first time we learned from an experience and had to cancel one event. 2013 is going to be even more focused on Eastern European countries starting off with Minsk in Belarus and new destinations are waiting to be announced! Here is an infograph with our most important numbers for 2012. Read more »
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There are certain milestones that Garage48 wants to build up to, having a hackathon as part of the regions biggest startup and investor meetup Slush is one of them. Unfortunately, this will not be happening this year, as we are sad to inform that Garage48 hackathon in Helsinki part of Slush agenda on 19-21 of November is cancelled.
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Estonian startup VitalFields, that first got started in Garage48 hackathon back in august 2011, successfully raised a €250,000 seed round from venture investors.
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Distribution of information and media are undergoing great changes. There's no arguing with that, right? As there is an app for everything, now there is a contest called
Uutisraivaaja for renewing distribution of information and creating sustainable business models for journalism. It is not just a think tank - they are putting on the table 250 000 euros with which to develop the idea.
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It's the 2nd time for Garage48 in Helsinki, Finland. Garage48 Helsinki Slush 2012 is co-organized with the biggest Northern and Eastern Europe’s startup conference Slush and it will be held from 19-21 November in Cable Factory. This is a great opportunity to combine 2 startup events in one location and for one price and pitch your working solution to the whole audience and investors gathering to Slush. Read more »
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Last week-end Garage48 Riga 2012 was held together with SSE Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and TechHUB Riga which resulted in 14 interesting new solutions made during the week-end. Interactive Sales Training impressed the jury the most with a simple tool to create mini-games. Interactive Sales Training came the winner of the 3rd Garage48 Riga event. Read more »
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14 teams got the approval from Garage48 to start working on their ideas in the hackathon on 26-28th October 2012 in Riga. Follow Live Project Demos via LIVE STREAM on Sunday at 5.30 pm (GMT+2)!
This blog post will be updated regularly, so be sure to check back.
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We must have broken some records with 35 idea-pitches in Garage48 hackathon in the snowy capital of Latvia. The feeling here in Riga is energetic and upbeat, to say it mildly. Read all about the ideas that were presented today and come back tomorrow to find out which of these ideas went into works to build a demo by Sunday evening.
Also go to
ArcticStartup to get the inside scoop on whats happening here.
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Garage48 Riga 2012 is already next week-end and early stage startup accelerator Startup Wise Guys will be making its presence known by teaching hackathon teams to present the perfect final demo-pitch. Read more »
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Garage48 Riga 2012 is looking for new ideas and innovation in technology. We are happy to present our general partner and platinum sponsor technology investment fund Rubylight is very excited to offer prizes to the teams who develop the best solutions for B2C market. Read more »
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Garage48 Riga 2012 kicks off already next week-end. Garage48 Riga 2012 will be held in SSE Riga School of Economics in Riga premises, from 26-28th October. To support development of new and innovative technological solutions, Samsung encourages you to enter competition of Garage48 in three special categories. Read more »
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Tom Godber (CTO and co-founder of Masabi) said that the most impressive thing for him was to see that the
winner was a team he had written off at the beginning based on their one line
pitch. "But they turned round an excellent site serving a real need in a tiny
amount of time," said Tom Godber. Matemaatik impressed the jury the most with a web solution that helps teachers to export and use math exercises. Matemaatik came the winner of the 3rd Garage48 Tartu event. Read more »
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Garage48 Tartu is weekend hackathon, where around 60 people are turning their ideas into working mobile and web applications within 48 hours. It's already the 3rd Garage48 event in Tartu co-organized and hosted by Tartu University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences. From 25 ideas pitched on Friday, 9 ideas managed to attract a team and started product development. Follow Live Project Demos via LIVE STREAM on Sunday at 5.30 pm (GMT+2)! Read more »
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Garage48 Tartu hackaton has kicked off with 90 second pitches. Idea-authors are jumping, dancing, sweating and using every other tricks in their book to get their idea out there. Read more »
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Garage48 Tartu welcomes already existing "Company-Teams" to the event! Read more »
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Garage48 arrives back to Riga! It's already the 4th time when our famous hackathon takes place in Latvia. This time it's October 26-28 at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. As always we expect many talented people at Garage48 Riga, a lot of creative ideas, we provide great mentors on site, unique vibe and energy and 100% satisfaction. Garage48 events in Riga are named as the most fun events by Garage48 co-founder Priit Salumaa. This time we will focus on B2C solutions for better life, you will have the opportunity to meet top-notch mentors who have built solutions for milions of customers; still as always in Riga any ideas are welcomed. Read more »
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Prominent US investor and famous startup geek Dave McClure opened #EstonianMafia Wall of Fame in Garage48 HUB, putting more than 40 thriving tech startups under the spotlight. Read more »
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AppCampus is a mobile app development program
lead and managed by Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. It is
funded by Microsoft and Nokia, who both committed to invest up to 9 million
euros into the mobile app development program, which fosters the creation of
mobile apps for the Windows Phone ecosystem and in addition to other Nokia
platforms including Symbian and Series 40. Let the apps begin!
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Garage48 will get your idea to a prototype in 48 hours and ArcticStartup is looking to help the winning team to promote that prototype, find investors and perhaps get recognized globally at Arctic15, a renowned startup conference taking place on the 17th-18th of October in Helsinki. (Just a week and a half after Garage48) To that end, they have a very special prize.
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Together with StartSmart! Execute4Success, Garage48 Tartu 2012 hackaton welcomes all crazy and not so crazy, but much needed solutions in mobile business for a StartSmart! & Garage48 Demo Pitching event on 1st of October at 6:30PM in Wabadus Cafe. This warm-up event is for anyone who is interested in attending Tartu hackaton in October as a source (coder, marketer, designer or as entrepreneur) or with your own idea. Wabadus Cafe will be filled with mentors and fun loving people!
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Garage48 Tartu 2012 is looking for innovation in mobile industry. We are happy to present mobile giant Nokia as our Premium sponsor. For Nokia it's very important to support Estonian developers and designers and give the the best Mobile App on Garage48 Tartu a chance to get their hands on Nokia Lumia 610 Windows Phone devices. To win it, to hack on it, and design for it in the future. Read more »
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Gagan Biyani (co-founder of Udemy) said that one of the biggest challenges is to build products to international markets and persuaded Russian teams to work hard on that. He said it was amazing to be part of the event where he saw people working extremely hard for the results. KidsWorld impressed the jury the most with a mobile application that helps parents to lock their phones features from children and make them safe for them to play. KidsWorld came the winner of HackDay meets Garage48 in st. Petersburg, Russia. Read more »
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HackDay meets Garage48 is weekend hackathon, where around 60 people are turning their ideas into working mobile and web applications within 48 hours. It's 1st Garage48 event in Russia, co-organized together with Mail.Ru Group and hosted by HackDay and ZonaSpace. From 27 ideas pitched on Friday, 12 ideas managed to attract a team and started product development. Follow Live Project Demos via LIVE STREAM on Sunday at 5.30 pm (GMT +4)! Read more »
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HackDay meets Garage48 kicked off with lots of energy and cool ideas yesterday, 14th September, in ZonaSpace, St. Petersburg, Russia. Mail.Ru Group as the co-organizer of HackDay meets Garage48 event is giving out a special prize for the winner of the very first Garage48 event in Russia. Read more »
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In less than a month Garage48 Tartu 2012 kicks off. With top mentors in mobile applications field and NOKIA as the main sponsor of Garage48 Tartu 2012, the event will have focus on products and services developed for mobile platforms. Read more »
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Digital gaming has surpassed it siblings, film and music in entertainment business, and no longer is it unusual for a game title to beat box office hits or stadium acts in revenue. The on-going transformation is opening up new opportunities for all kinds of businesses combining technology, creativity and business skills. Read more »
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Garage48 HUB was started 1,5 years go in Tallinn by Ragnar and Martin. Today we have a growing HUB community, both startups and freelancers, regular events and many supporting sponsors. Thats great! We feel that we need to take the next step and expand - this means bigger office space, more members and more (better) events. Garage48 HUB will move to the heart of Tallinn, Rävala pst 7 from June 2012. Read how you could help us to build new "Estonian startup house" :) Read more »
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Ragnar Sass (founder of Garage48) said that one of the biggest challenges is to build products to international markets and persuaded Ukrainian teams to work hard on that. Motify.me impressed the jury the most with a web application that helps people achieve their personal goals and came the winner of Garage48 Kiev 2012. Read more »
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As a partner of Garage48 Kiev 2012, Microsoft is inviting Garage48 teams to its cloud services platform Windows Azure. Read more »
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Garage48 Kiev is weekend hackathon, where 100 people are turning their ideas into working mobile and web applications within 48 hours. It's 1st Garage48 event in Ukraine, co-organized and hosted by DOU.ua and National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". From 25 ideas pitched on Friday, 12 ideas managed to attract a team and started product development of its 1 cancelled on Saturday. Follow Live Project Demos via LIVE STREAM! Read more »
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Garage48 is 1st time in Kiev, a country with huge amount of engineering talent. Garage48 is in full speed, people are currently pitching great ideas on stage. We list all pitched ideas LIVE on this blogpost. Please also follow the pitches from Live stream from Dou.ua website and share your comments in Twitter hashtag #garage48 Read more »
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Latitude 59, held on 7-8th June in Tallinn University of Technology is the go-to place for the Nordic and Baltic start-up scene for venture capitalists and start-ups in the spring. It is a great possibility for start-ups to participate in the Latitude 59 Conference and have the possibility to present their products during the intermissions and coffee breaks at the Latitude 59 Booth Hall for FREE! Read more »
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Priit Salumaa (founder of Garage48) was amazed of the very first event in Valmiera, shining out quite a few big cities and producing one of the top levels of energy and team effort in Garage48 history. GiveGif impressed the jury the most - ready to use application came the winner of the Garage48 Valmiera 2012. Read more »
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Garage48 Valmiera opened up with good laugh and great vibe at VBI Incubator. Must say, there's something in Latvia and Latvians, which makes events here so enjoyable. It is no different in rather small city of Valmiera. Here are 10 teams, which got recognized by other participants and have team together. Follow their progress in social media! Read more »
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Garage48 proudly presents Garage48 Valmiera 2012 event which will take place already next week 27-29th April at Valmiera Business and Innovation Incubator in Valmiera, Latvia! Last seats available, act fast! Deadline for registration is 25th April.
This would not happen without our great partners:
TechHub Riga and
sponsors. Come and join us there! The very first event in Valmiera, Latvia.
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Garage48 is proud to announce the opening of the registration to the very first Garage48 Kiev 2012 event. Garage48 Kiev 2012 event takes place 11-13th May at National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Kiev! book the dates in calendar:) This would not happen without our great partners: DOU and sponsors. Come and join us there!! Read more »
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Chris Douridas (2-time Grammy nominated music supervisor) was impressed by how fully realized and music/entertainment focused many of the ideas were. EasyRider impressed Chris the most - ready to use application got the highest points from the jury and came the winner of the Garage48 Tallinn Music 2012.
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Garage48 Tallinn Music was a 48 hour hackathon, where 100 people turned ideas into working mobile and web applications within 48 hours. This time most of the ideas were about music and entertainment. From 20 ideas pitched on Friday, 14 got a team together and started development. Here is the live list of projects updated throughout the weekend. If you want to see the outcome - come and check projects demos 5:30pm in Tallinn Ülemiste City or follow our live-stream via internet. Read more »
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These ideas are being pitched at Garage48 Tallinn Music on Friday 23rd March 2012. Everybody have 60 seconds to introduce their ideas, give a short overview of their background and say what they need to be able to build a prototype during the weekend. Read more »
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In addition to hundreds of software developers, designers, marketing experts and visionaries from Estonia and abroad, ENTRUM young entrepreneurs are going to rock the Garage 48 Tallinn Music 2012 event in Tallinn. They are young, active, have real passion to change the world and know how to make their dreams come true. Upcoming friday they will join their older colleges to find how Garage 48 operates, so that that in the near future they could rock the IT start-up world. Read more »
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Garage48 Tallinn Music is looking for innovation in music and entertainment industry. We are happy to present mobile giant Nokia as our Premium sponsor. For Nokia it's very important to support Estonian developers and designers and give the the best Windows Phone app on Garage48 Tallinn Music a chance to get their hands on the Nokia Lumia 800 devices. To win it, to hack on it, and design for it in the future. Read more »
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Less than 2 days remain until Garage48 Tallinn Music kicks off. We are all set to go, with almost a hundred participants signed up and tens of interesting music ideas already discussed. All this would not happen without our partners: top music mentors from abroad and our sponsors. Read more »
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Garage48 Startup HUB will start with monthly Pitching, Mentoring And Networking Event for technology based startups. First event is dedicated to Garage48 Tallinn Music 2012 and welcomes all crazy or not so crazy, but much needed solutions in music and entertainment business. March 7 at 5PM at Garage48 Startup HUB will be filled with fun loving people! Read more »
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Music and entertainment field is full of cool startups and plenty of them are also from Scandinavian region. As upcoming Garage48’s topic is music and entertainment then it’s right time to have a peek on what products are being developed in this field in Scandinavian and Baltic region. Read more »
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It was year ago, when the first and so far the only Garage48 Public Service took place. One of the project, which got big local media attention was lastehoid.net, which is a website, where families and care-givers meet. Not too innovative in global terms, but in Estonian case the first and the only one. Read more »
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Two alumni Garage48 alumni Qminder and MafutaGO have made it through a tough competition to reach the finals of Mobile Premiere Awards. Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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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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 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 »
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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 »
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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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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 »
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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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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's
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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!
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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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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 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 »
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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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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.
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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.
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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 »
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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.
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Check out the ideas pitched at Garage48 Lagos 2011! Read more »
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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 »
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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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Together with Google and Nokia another event of Garage48 will belaunched 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. Read more »
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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.
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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 »
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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 »
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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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As a premium sponsor of Garage48 Tallinn 2011, Microsoft is inviting Garage48 teams to its cloud services platform Windows Azure.
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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 »
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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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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.
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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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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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.
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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 »
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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.
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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.
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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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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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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 »
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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.
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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 »
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Here are few Garage48 badges for the projects launching their websites and services. Read more »
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The follwing ideas survived the vote and formed as teams. Given team/project names are most probably to change during the weekend. Read more »
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The ideas pitch will started at 19:00, the following ideas are presented - 90 sec for a pitch 30 sec for questions: Read more »
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At 18:15 in Liivi 2, Tartu the next Garage48 event was launched with over 100 participants. Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »