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Start-ups seek the smart roubles
Cash call: search engine company Yandex is one of the few big internet success stories in Russia In 2002, Russian computer programmer Igor Sysoev began to work on a new program “as a hobby”...

Pekka Viljakainen blog on Slush
Bulldozer@ Skolkovo #10: In a Sauna (сауна) Blog of Pekka Viljakainen, advisor to the president of the Foundation and head of Commercialization project office, who was the main driving force behind the...

Residents of the Skolkovo Foundation, who came to the Slush, got a unique opportunity and experience
Residents, which took part in the Slush forum, were able to work out at the on-site pitches, create their video presentations in English, as well as to see how their colleagues deal with international...

Cleantech cluster pitch session on Slush
15 residents of the Skolkovo’s Cleantech cluster made their pitch presentations during the Slush forum. Investors were quite interested, asking different questions, demonstrating good feedback and...

The Skolkovo technopark and Startup Suana signed an agreement on cooperation
The agreement will help the technopark to reach a synergy with the Finnish Startup Sauna, which is the organizer of the Slush forum. It will also help the technopark to get an access to thousands of European...

The prime-minister of the Republic of Finland Jurki Katainen visited the Skolkovo Foundation exposition
The prime-minister of the Republic of Finland Jurki Katainen visited the Skolkovo Foundation exposition at the European startups forum Slush. The Skolkovo representatives told Mr. Katainen about technologies...

Pitch sessions of Skolkovo residents kicked off at Slush at Skolkovo’s pavilion, which is quite popular here
As Yekaterina Pankratova, head of marketing for the Technopark Skolkvovo said, one of the target audience of pitches are Finish startups themselves. Skolkovo prepared a special package for them, called...

Slush opened with welcome speeches of industry leaders
Slush opened with welcome speeches of industry leaders, which gathered a huge audience of startuppers. Among them was Jason Chein, one of Amazon.com heads, in charge of GameCircle unit. Talking to startuppers...

Slush - last preparation before the forum
The biggest technopark and business accelerator of Northern Europe, which was set by a Finnish company StartUp Sauna on an old abandoned cable factory in Helsinki, kicks of with its major Slush event....