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Learning from Failure: My Experience with 2 Startups & the Key Takeaways: #2 Financial instability

There are too many challenges while building a startup, and how we react them leads us failure or success. Last time we discussed lack of focus, in this post, we talk about the second huge mistake – financial instability’s impact on startups. Money is energy that forces system’s wheels to turn, push companies to grow, […]

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Why should you participate in hackathons: How to be one of the winning teams?

During this week, I participated in one of the best Hackathon organizers in East Europe, Garage48‘s event – Student Startup Supercamp, an annual entrepreneurship BootCamp, and our team won 3rd place. So, in post #12, I will share my experiences with hackathons and some hints to win competitions and mistakes you should not follow. Congratulations! […]

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Learning from Failure: My Experience with 2 Startups & the Key Takeaways: #1 A Lack of Focus

It hurts, but I should regretfully declare that I have failed in my second startup too. Building a company is complicated, and if it is a startup, it is extra challenging. I have been in the startup ecosystem from the age of 18 for more than 5 years. I have encountered different challenges, competitions, incubators, […]

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Technology

How accidental inventions shapes technology

Inventions often come from unexpected sources and may initially be perceived as failures or wrong attempts. However, these accidental discoveries can lead to valuable advancements in technology and benefit humanity. In post №10, we will explore three particularly intriguing examples of such inventions: Let’s take a closer look and examine them in detail. Congratulations! As […]

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Art

What does Dostoyevski’s first novel teach us?

“Poor Folk” is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s debut novel, published in 1846. He wrote the novel as a means of addressing his financial struggles, which were caused by his costly lifestyle and worsening gambling addiction. Despite having attempted to generate income through translations of foreign literature, his efforts had been met with little success. As a result, […]

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How to achieve a competitive advantage

One of the interesting subjects we had at the University of Tartu was Business Growth Strategies. In the post №8, I want to share one of the answers to the final exams we had. It is about the strategy of Achieving and Sustaining Competitive Advantage. All living organisms attempt to gain survival advantage in nature. […]

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Art

Art of achieving goals

We fail a lot. 92% of people can not reach their new year’s resolutions. Even this failure rate is lower at the beginning of the year. We all have dreams, but achieving goals is more about statistics. So we are in New Year. Let’s discuss the art of achieving goals. According to Reliable Plant, only 20% of people set […]

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Technology

How artificial intelligence-powered balls are changing the game

Technology is expanding everywhere, even to one of the classical sports in humanity, Football. FIFA world cup 2022 is already finalized. However, one thing caught my attention—the most crucial thing in a game, the ball. Adidas, the official match ball supplier for the FIFA World Cup since 1970, produces the Al Rihla ball. It means […]

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Start-up Technology

87% of this post is not written by a human – Interview with OpenAI ChatGPT

Chatbots and virtual assistants have become an increasingly common way for businesses and organizations to interact with their customers and users. These technologies rely on powerful language models to generate humanlike responses and engage in meaningful conversations with users. One such language model is ChatGPT, a variant of the popular GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) model […]

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Have you ever thought about how barcodes & QR codes work?

Today’s post discusses one of the most frequent things we use in our daily lives: Barcodes & QR(quick response) codes. Technology relieves humanity’s workload and brings prosperity when used by the right hands. Probably barcode is one of the most valuable techs we use. Every week, when I go to the market, I use barcodes […]