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What it’s like to found a startup in Estonia

The Next Web

I happen to be from Estonia, a small, but fiercely proud country near the Baltic Sea, one with a burgeoning startup scene that’s full of driven, intelligent and hungry entrepreneurs. In Estonia, people who set out to build a great business can’t expect to be greeted with encouragement and support from the broader community.

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‘Deepfake’ that supposedly fooled European politicians was just a look-alike, say pranksters

The Verge

Parliamentarians from the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia had all arranged video calls with a hoaxer claiming to be Leonid Volkov, chief of staff to imprisoned Russian anti-Putin politician Alexei Navalny. Our work is to prank high officials and celebrities and to make a lot of fun and publish it to social media,” says Stolyarov.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

But I think its fair to say that the Dutch post-World War II welfare state isn’t exactly breeding the young and hungry entrepreneur you find in Turkey, Romania and Estonia. It also includes becoming better at my next point: Celebrate success . As a result, inspiring stories for the next generation are mostly kept in the dark.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Before becoming pay-to-play, Twitter verification indicated a person was a public or notable figure of some sort — like a politician, celebrity, athlete, journalist or other well-known individual. Notably, these changes will also now apply to everyone who has their inboxes open to allow messages from anyone.

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