Ecosystem | Die Player und Regeln, die das Ökosystem prägen

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cards

Coinbase Issues Cards and Lets Users Pay with Crypto in the Stores

Cait O'Riordan, Chief Product and Information Officer at Financial Times ©Ivan Kolazov

media ❤️ technology

Data Science, UX and Business Analyses. Here’s What Financial Times is Doing in Sofia

Viber is trying to target entrepreneurs with a new feature called Local Numebrs © unsplash

viber

You Can Now have a Local Phone Number Without Buying a Sim in the US and the UK

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growth & maturity

Equinix, the $19M Investment in Sofia and the Ecosystem Effect

Petar Sharkov, General Manager ©Telerik Academy School

impact

Telerik Academy School Crowdsourced over $20K to Expand to Five New Cities and Teach More Kids Digital Skills

This digital assistant tries to sell us a chatbot ©TrendingTopics

interview

Product Marketing Expert: A Chatbot Could Sell Two Times Better Than a Landing Page

Currently the newest hub Campus X ranks #1 by size ©Alexander Novoselski, Campus X

shared offices ranking

Sofia is Among the Top 20 Coworking Space Markets in Europe

Dextrophobia, the first escape room startup in Bulgaria, has shifted towards outdoor quests and team buildings. ©Nedyalko Dervenkov

escape rooms

Dextrophobia: The Five Years Quest and New Horizons

SoftUni starts remote IT courses in Malaysia and the Philippines © Charles, unsplash

expansion

Bulgarian Private IT Academy SoftUni Expands to Malaysia and the Philippines

There are many ways to tell your startups story to the media - once you've identified the story, of course © Dmitry Ratushny, unsplash

Tips&Tricks

5 Ideas on Identifying The Stories in Your Company That Media Would Want to Publish

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IoT

Telecom Operator Vivacom Launches a Tech Hall as First Step To Work Closer With The Startup Ecosystem

“We are the guardians of truth on the Blockchain!,” Anton Gerunov, COO of Logsentinel, summarized at the end of his pitch. ©Sebastian Kreuzberger

award

Bulgarian Infosec Startup LogSentinel Wins GovTech.Pioneers in Vienna

The savings of the households might be the significant capital source for IPOing startups in Bulgaria ©Pexels

Interview

Pre IPO Investors: Startups Considering an IPO in Bulgaria Should Rely on Sleeping Households’ Savings

Spark already has seven models users can choose from ©Jordan Mihajlov, TrendingTopics

e-mobility

E-Car Sharing Service Spark Continues to Grow in Sofia and will Enter Romania by Mid 2019

This year's edition of the accelerator is trying to identify solutions against energy poverty ©Emil Danailov, Subektiv

#impact #opportunities

Social Entrepreneurs with Ideas in the Energy Domain Can Apply for Acceleration and Small Grants

Konstantin Bezuhanov, CEO of Evrotrust Technologies

Expansion

E-Identification Startup Evrotrust Sets a Foot in Austria

The Founder of OneCoin Ruja Ignatova is still at large, her brother Konstantin Ignatov was arrested in March after promising an IPO several times. Here's what we could learn from the case. ©OneCoin

April Fools’ Day

7 Ways to Recognize Crypto Scams

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Achievement of the Week

Bulgarian Nanosatellite Startup Endurosat Featured in NASA’s State of the Art Report

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Ecosystem

Everything you Need to Know About the New Investment Fund Innovation Accelerator Bulgaria

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#femaleinvestors

A Global Directory Shows The Female Face of the Global Venture Capital Industry

It's challenging to attract millennial talent ©unsplash

#notalent #creativesolutions

Why is this Startup Launching Tinder for Jobs and What else are Companies Trying to Attract Talent