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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 »