Host: Andrii DegelerGuests: 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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Intro credit: Shangyne. Jingle credit: Thejack288. Image credit: Robert Anders.