All stories by Chris
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Revisiting Ukraine’s startup ecosystem: Confidence, ambition, and aspiration
Since my last trip to Ukraine in 2017, the country's intoxication with the startup bug has grown, driven by local success ...
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Lithuania: You are welcome
Chris Ward completes his Baltic trifecta by looking at the tech and startup scene in Lithuania.
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Industrial IoT: move slow and make things
Are you tired of hearing how ICOs are disrupting fundraising? The first five months of 2018 saw funds raised through token ...
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Take your smart assistant with you with Jinni
Jinni is a curious little device that combines the Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri (iPhone only) smart assistants into one ...
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The wild, weird, and wonderful of CES 2018
Another year, another CES rolls in and out of Las Vegas, one of the most suitable locations on earth to host such an event. ...
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Geelong, the restart capital of Australia
When I was last living in Melbourne, the startup scene was still in its nascent stages. It had a handful of local success ...
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Ukraine, on the edge of something and somewhere
I am standing inside the exhibitor room of (what claims to be) Eastern Europe’s largest startup event, IT Arena in Lviv, ...
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The past, present and future of meeting people with meetup founder Scott Heiferman
There’s a high chance that if you have attended an event in a city in recent years, it was arranged through meetup.com. ...
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What affect is tech having on society? An interview with Yael Eisenstat
Yael Eisenstat has an interesting past. She ‘came out’ as a long term CIA employee in January 2017 after Donald Trump ...
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Startupbootcamp demo day on transport and energy
Around me are dozens of vintage cars in an old warehouse, tucked into a corner of Berlin’s north west. Those into cars ...
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Communist and cultural effects on tech communities
Entrepreneurs, activists and community leaders in countries where it's harder work and few people even understand what you're ...
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Estonia: Between East, West and the World
A year after Estonia's innovative e-Residency program began, what's the underlying motivations behind Estonia's embrace of ...