Checking with Google Analytics, I noticed an interesting website that has been sending a steady stream of visitors to nowEurope. ArcticStartup, founded in 2007, presents itself as the leading weblog reviewing and reporting on technology startups and growth entrepreneurship from the Nordic and Baltic countries.
I decided to return the favor by linking to the site and telling you all a little bit about it.
Like nowEurope, ArticStartup is written by a group of writers, many of them entrepreneurs. I don’t (yet) know any of the writers or editors personally, but I did find an interview with Jüri Kaljundi, a well-known Estonian tech entrepreneur who occasionally contributes to nowEurope.
While the blog mainly focuses on Baltic and Nordic startups I came across this article about Prezi, a Hungarian startup that has been generating good publicity beyond our borders.
I was also interested to read about ICT activity in Lithuania, a country I have never visited:
Who would have believed that the country with the highest mobile subscription rate worldwide (138% as per World Economic Forum’s World Competitiveness report), the broadest high-speed mobile broadband coverage and the densest network of public internet access points in Europe is the small nation of Lithuania, sandwiched between Latvia, Belarus, Poland, Kaliningrad and the Baltic sea?
I also discovered an Estonian company which provides a service I might actually use in another business. Fortumo is an Estonia portal that offers free access for website-owners and small businesses to monetize their user base through premium SMS messages. If you’ve ever looked into SMS payments, you know that mobile aggregators charge exorbitant fees for handling these transactions – up to 60% in some markets.
It’s good to have friends in the North!
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