Host: Andrii Degeler

Guests: Karoli Hindriks (Jobbatical.com) and Alex Barrera (Press42.com)

In this episode of ProCEEd > Podcast, I'm joined by two great guests: Karoli Hindriks, the founder and CEO of Jobbatical.com, and Alex Barrera, a co-founder of Tech.eu and Chief WOWness Officer at Press42.com.

We discuss Alex's recent story on the tech scene in the Baltics (http://goo.gl/tN60vf), Jobbatical's recent funding round, and the future of entrepreneurs and startups in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Here's a few highlights of the episode:

01:45 Impressions from TechChill Baltics

04:35 It the Baltics part of the ecosystem of CEE or the Nordics?

10:55 Is it hard to get students to run startups in the Baltics? Do the crisis and the fall of corporations like Nokia help?

15:30 Is technology ruining the world around us?

24:50 Should governments support startup ecosystems by throwing money at entrepreneurs?

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For today's podcast, I've had an interesting conversation with Max Rattner from Angee, a Czech-founded hardware startup that raised $530,000 on Kickstarter and then launched an additional campaign on Indiegogo.

In addition to product-related questions, Max has a cool story to tell about his move from working as an English teacher in South Korea to becoming a VP of an Eastern European startup.

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This time I've put together a brief explanation of the fight between Russia's Yandex and Google about the Android platform.

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This time I’ve talked to Mait Müntel, founder of the Estonia-based startup Lingvist, which attracted $8 million in funding from Rakuten and others last week. We’ve discussed the connection between CERN and language learning, the startup’s plans and the relevance of the Japanese giant as an investor.

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The guest of today's podcast is Oleksandr Shymanko, an 18-year-old entrepreneur from Ukraine, whose Pi Pillow has won the Audience Award at the Falling Walls Lab 2015 contest.

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This week, I've decided to follow up the news of two Russian teams receiving €50,000 grants from Enterprise Ireland to move their businesses to the Emerald Isle.

Listen to some details and explanations from Julia Walsh, Business Development Manager at Enterprise Ireland's office in Moscow.

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This time we're going to talk about CEE startup scene, and particularly about the importance of knowing where a startup comes from.

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Today we talk to Kaili Kleemeier, Founder and CEO of Estonia-based Deekit. Last week, the startup graduated from the TechStars London accelerator and is currently looking for seed funding.

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In the second episode of ProCEEd > Podcast, we talk to Peter Kovacs, the man behind the Central European Startup Awards, which were handed to the winners last week.

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In the second episode of ProCEEd > Podcast, we talk to Anna Spysz, a tech journalist from Krakow who until recently had been the editor in chief at Bitspiration News.

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