UCHA VEKUA: "Give yourself a shot!" Hackathons are the new proving ground for creatives
Story of why and how I started organising loo-oots of hackathons and startup meetups in my free time.
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ALEJANDRO JIMENEZ: You’re wrong about the Dot-Com crash, so stop saying AI-driven stocks will be a tragic repeat
The financial press and “enlightened” social media influencers keep warning that today’s AI-driven stock market is a bubble ready to burst, comparable to the dot-com implosion in 2000. They’ve warned us for years, yet the market keeps rising. Frustrated with the constant gloomy predictions, I’ll
ANDRES KÜTT: Estonian planned approach to agents, services and identity
Your human-oriented service being consumed by agents represents a service design failure. The same goes for your documents or knowledge sets that, before AI, were designed for human consumption. If your customers need a piece of software to interact with your software, why isn't that software part
GERT LÕHMUS: From a coffee in Vilnius to a developer infrastructure tool
Enola’s story started with a shared coffee in Vilnius, continued in Berlin, and eventually became a company founded in Estonia.
Dejan and I met on a September day in Vilnius. We had coffee at Brew (a lovely cafe), talked about work and life, and, at some point, Dejan showed
TRIIN HERTMANN: How your AI agent makes me feel
Ever pour your heart and soul into a presentation or a project just to be told it was 'ok'? It is so deflating.
Recently, I had to present in a large important meeting. I prepared well, wrote the text, including personal jokes, fun metaphors, professional bullet points and
REET KAURIT: Why salary transparency is good news for startups
For years, hiring has started with the same awkward dance. Candidates wanted to know the salary. Employers preferred to discuss everything else first. So both sides spent weeks avoiding the question everyone knew would eventually come.
"What's the salary?"
That dance is now over.
Under the
TRIIN HERTMANN: My trip to Riga - lost my jacket but I gained some inspiration
It’s been a special week. Founders from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania got together in Riga to share cool founding stories, talk about challenges and to party. Not the regular meet up where we usually compare charts and discuss who is doing better in terms of new startups or VC