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For one day KUMU became a start-up Meka
05.12.2013
On the 21st of November, StartSmart! final conference LessonsLearned brought together about 150 people, who shared a common interest for start-ups. The key-note speakers’ presentations were followed online by more than 9000 people all over the world.
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StartSmart! Lessons Learned
12.11.2013
Thank you for witnessing 12 StartSmart! large conferences and workshops, with 1300 unique participants- entrepreneurs, investors and mentors.
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StartSmart! Goes2Tartu heads to “Silicon Alley”
06.05.2013
On May 15th in Tartu, the StartSmart! start-up program event StartSmart! Goes2Tartu will take place at Ahhaa Science Center. Internationally experienced experts will be sharing practical advice on the most important topics of developing your own start-up business.
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StartSmart! Marketing&Metrics; focuses on marketing startups
25.02.2013
On the 7th and 8th of March, the StartSmart! start-up program event Marketing&Metrics; will take place in Tallinn. Internationally acclaimed experts will be sharing practical advice on how to get the message of your product or service in development across to customers.
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StartSmart! Social&Profitable; focuses on social entrepreneurship
26.11.2012
On the 3rd and 4th of December, the StartSmart! start-up program event Social&Profitable; will take place in Tallinn. Social entrepreneurs and other specialists in the area will be speaking about companies which have other goals besides making a profit.
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Biotechnology regaining investors’ interest alongside IT and mobile
19.10.2012
On November 8th in Tallinn, the business seminar Healhtech4Business will be next in line in the StartSmart! series of events targeted at starting entrepreneurs. The seminar will feature biotechnology experts from Nordic countries, sharing their know-how of the sector’s trends and presenting the most successful business models in health technology.
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StartSmart! teaches start-ups to test business models at opening event of the Entrepreneurship Week
19.09.2012
From 1st to 2nd October in Tallinn, local and foreign experts teach in the course of the business seminar Execute4Success start-ups how to develop business ideas and test them on clients.
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StartSmart! teaches start-ups to find and keep talents
13.08.2012
From August 17th to 18th, StartSmart! will host a summer camp for start-ups at Roosta, focusing on challenges and opportunities related to growing teams and expanding networks.
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Need team members, know-how or a float plane, for example? Announce it in the StartSmart! Web environment!
20.06.2012
Starting from this week, the StartSmart! web environment has an option of putting up the advertisements of startups and it is possible to introduce your team and business idea being developed in the Startups Database.
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StartSmart! audiopitches in radiobroadcast Huvitaja at ERR Vikerraadio.
06.06.2012
Some start-ups got the chance to practice presenting their case and recieved valuable feedback from mentors during audiopitches in broadcast Huvitaja at ERR Vikerraadio.
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Bill Payne: „Ka elustiiliettevõtted on majandusele väga kasulikud”
05.06.2012
Bill Payne, who also spoke in our last event “StartSmart! Roadmap2Global Markets” has given an interview to Estonian newspaper “Eesti Ekspress” (sorry, in Estonian only). Quite inspiring reading!
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PODCAST: How can one become an entrepreneur?
09.05.2012
Podcast in Estonian, courtesy of Kuku radio.
A young entrepreneur who has been a keen participant @ StartSmart! events, Indrek Vainu along with Heidi Kakko from the Estonian Development Fund and the leader of Start-up Estonia programme Tõnis Mäe speak about how and with what resources can a person become an entrepreneur.
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27 000 people from 25 countries watched StartSmart! last event’s live-stream
09.05.2012
The last StartSmart! spring session seminar for start-ups titled ”Roadmap2GlobalMarkets“ was held at Ülemiste City in Tallinn at the end of last week. This time the focus was on internationalization, and the event was aimed at Estonian and Finnish companies. However, due to the fact, that all events organised in the framework of StartSmart! series are streamed live in English, these events have become extremely popular among budding entrepreneurs all around the world. More than 3,000 people from 25 countries such as Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Cameroon, and the USA followed the live broadcast of the last seminar.
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Andy Lopata, Europe’s leading business communication strategist, to be a keynote speaker at the StartSmart! event in Tallinn
19.04.2012
Next week, April 26-27, Ülemiste City will be hosting the final seminar for seed companies in the spring season of the series of events known as StartSmart! that focuses on globalization possibilities of startups. The event’s main speaker will be Andy Lopata who, according to The Financial Times, is one of Europe’s leading business communication strategists. In addition to Lopata, another keynote speaker will be Bill Payne, the US 2009 Business Angel.
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StartSmart! invites Estonian entrepreneurs to Finland for a seminar on IT and mobile apps
20.03.2012
“Steps4Success”, the seminar on IT and mobile apps to be held on March 21 in Helsinki, is expected to attract more than 250 participants, among them a considerable number of young Estonian entrepreneurs. The seminar to be held in cooperation with Aalto University features, for instance, a presentation by Mikko Kaipainen, founder of Ovelin and the inventor WildChords that was voted Europe’s best learning game on iPad in 2011.
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StartSmart! events are like steroids for a startup
05.03.2012
Here is my first encounter and why I’m hooked. Jürgen Visnapuu, CBDO in AppDevelopmentCompany
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Expert: Estonia, Finland to launch several successful startup companies soon
17.02.2012
Tobias Edström, a Swede who has managed the music business of the world-famous Spotify and now operates as business model and business strategy consultant, said at the Models4Business seminar held in Tallinn yesterday and today that he saw great potential in several business models prepared by Estonians.
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Global startup experts to polish Estonian business models
09.02.2012
All Estonian people with an entrepreneurial mind-set have the unique opportunity to attend the seminar “Models4Business” to be held in Tallinn on 16 and 17 February, where the main speakers will be global startup stars Tobias Edström, who used to manage the famous Spotify music service, and Mads Mathiesen, cofounder of the Startupbootcamp accelerator.
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Future Start-Up Creators Gathered Knowledge
12.12.2011
On the first days of December, Baltika Fashion Stage was humming with innovative thoughts and experiences – the opening seminar of Start Smart! series of events, “Wantrepreneur 2 Entrepreneur”, was held. In the course of two days, 130 participants had the chance to listen to the start-up experiences and recommendations of about ten entrepreneurs, investors and experts from Estonia, Europe and the USA.
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International entrepreneurship gurus elate the creators on Estonian seed companies
28.11.2011
The kick-off event Wantrepreneur 2 Enterpreneur will take place from 1st to 2nd of December in Tallinn. It is the first seminar from the row of joined Finnish-Estonian enterpreneurship themed events called Start Smart, where knowledge is shared to the public from international enterpreneurs and already succeeded Estonian businessmen.
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StartSmart! Lessons Learned
10.11.2011
Thank you for witnessing 12 StartSmart! large conferences and workshops, with 1300 unique participants- entrepreneurs, investors and mentors.
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Finland and Estonia agreed to develop the competitiveness of start-ups and co-operation in the field
10.11.2011
Row of joined events between Finnish and Estonian organizations started under the conduction of Estonian Development Fund. The aim of the project is to raise the competitiveness of Estonia and Finland by supporting births of innovative and international start-ups. The first conference named Wantrepreneur 2 Entrepreneur takes place in Tallinn on 1. – 2. December. In addition to Estonian Development Fund the project is partnered by University of Aalto, Enterprise Estonia, Technopolis Ülemiste AS and BDA Consulting OÜ.
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