July 27 2011
Heya guys and gals!
Awesome news from the STARTeurope HQ: Facebook’s Chris Hernandez will join us at the STARTUP WEEK 2011 as a speaker. Yeah, we’re cool like that. Speaking of coolness: yesterday we received some love from our partner TechCrunch Europe! If you want to attend the WEEK, there are still some early bird tickets left – so betta go getsum!
Behind the scenes, we are pulling some strings and you can expect a few more bombs to drop in the near future, so hold your pants tight! Is there anything you would really love to see at a startup conference? Something that has never been done before? If you have a idea worth sharing, we are more than happy to hear your thoughts on how we could make this WEEK the best week of 2011!
More at http://www.starteurope.at/jobs/
The internets:
Interesting interview with Douglas Edward, the first marketing manager at Google: the confessions from Google Employee #59
German VC firm Earlybird postulates that European VCs outperform their American colleagues
Finally! After a lot of buzz and a long stealth mode Jumio finally lifts the curtain! Read more here
Events coming up in Austria this week:
When: Saturday, July 30th, starting 6pm
Where: Stiegl-Ambulanz, Alser Straße 4, 1090 Vienna
What: Designer machen einen Screenshot ihrer Arbeit in einer maximalen Größe von 400×300 Pixel, laden ihn hoch und lassen ihn von anderen Dribbblern bewerten und kommentieren.
You have an event coming up which should be featured here? Stumbled upon something hot (like really hot)? Want us to post your job offerings? For suggestions and hints, please drop a mail to julian.sametinger@starteurope.at
July 20 2011
Aloha!
Check this out: one of our speakers of the STARTUP WEEK 2011, Constantin Bisanz (founder of brands4friends, €150 Million exit to ebay) is out there in wild waters with temperatures in the 2-3° range to cross the Bering Strait on a freakin’ Kiteboard! Holy shit, that’s what I call pushing it to the limit – good luck with that Constantin!
While Constantin is out there in the Bering Strait, we’ve been sitting in summery Vienna and curated another version of your favourite read, STARTeurope’s Weekly Mashup.
More at http://www.starteurope.at/jobs/
The internets:
Google is looking for the new Google…they invested $583 Million!!! in startups within the first three months of this year!
Bubble here, bubble there. Someone once said: the best sign that you are in a bubble is when all these ivy-league MBAs quit their consulting and investment banking jobs and join startups
Thinking about selling your product through its price? Try selling on value instead!
Events coming up in Austria this week:
When: Wednesday, July 20th, starting 5pm
Where: The Hub Vienna, Lindegasse 56, 1070 Vienna
What: Pirates, mermaids, sailors! The Summer is here and we celebrating the SUN season on Hub Vienna’s deck! Get on board!
You have an event coming up which should be featured here? Stumbled upon something hot (like really hot)? Want us to post your job offerings? For suggestions and hints, please drop a mail to julian.sametinger@starteurope.at
July 18 2011
The guest post is written by @nwstein, an international marketing manager and consultant who moved to Vienna two years ago from London, where he worked predominately in the Sport and Entertainment field. This post is in reply to @thomasdoane‘s guest post “Next Tech Boom“.
I tweeted that I believed that the blog from @thomasdoane was not exactly what I was thinking about the possibility of a Tech bubble being in full swing. One major problem I had was the comparison of Groupon and Google, this is very poorly chosen as the Google IPO was after the Dot Com bust.
I was then asked by STARTeurope to do a contra blog, something that I thought that I might not be in the best position to construct an argument as I am somewhat of an outsider to the Start-up group. I have since back peddled on that and find myself writing this blog.
One thing that makes me write this is the fact that human arrogance never ceases to amaze me. Every generation thinks that they are better than the previous one yet we still go through boom and bust, trough and peak. The cycle will continue as long as we hold on to the most flawed trait that we have Greed. We separate ourselves from the animals in many ways but while power is such an elixir to the masses, we will always have this issue.
Enough of the doctrine of Nick, though it is a worthy detour in this argument I will now give my reasons for a few of the truths (in my mind anyway) of the reasons we are currently in a bubble.
Those of you who know me will know that my technical knowledge, while better than the average Joe is not to the high standard of the majority of participants at a STARTeurope event, therefore I have the advantage of seeing the Start-up world from a different vantage point. For every useful new idea being implemented, there are 50-100 absolutely useless ideas or straight out copies that bring nothing new to the market.
The same mistakes are being made that the Dot Coms made, there might be a lot of talent in the schools and Universities worldwide but it is 100% theoretical and that causes an issue when a real life business problem arises and without the knowledge of how the rest of the business world works. This leads to the “Talent” tending to fight the flow and use up more energy trying to solve the problem in a “unique” way only just to find out that the tried and tested method was the best in the first place. There is too much shake the system and not enough reverence to the fact that 9 times out of 10 other people know more.
All of the recent IPOs have shown that people are banking on potential and not on reality, where have we seen this before? Please take a few seconds and go to Wikipedia and look up boo.com, it might wake a few people up. Also, the housing boom, commodity boom, the list is endless. Potential is a risky bet. 
Make a list of the recent IPOs and then list their worth against their revenue it will make for a sobering realization that unless you are running a Start-up with a purpose, solving a real problem that there is a high likelihood that there is a storm brewing. There are two things I would like to add, Warren Buffett has stated a similar level of caution about the overvaluation of Start-ups recently and the second thing is an investor tip that I have heard over the years. “When you hear the general person in the street talking about investing in something then it is time to get out”. This goes well with Mr. Buffett as one of his principles of investment is to bet against the general flow, when everyone is talking about stocks, it is time to get into commodities and vice versa.
I hope that we do prove that we are more prepared and “intelligent” then the Dot Com lot were, I am a pessimist by nature and the fact that so many investment banks are backing the new wave of innovation does not instill me with confidence. I am not saying that they will bet against their investments but it has been known to happen before.
July 13 2011
Oi!
During the last weeks the working beasts at our STARTeurope HQ in Vienna have constantly added key elements and a lot of value to the big picture of STARTeurope. It’s unbelievable to watch all this happening…boy we are blowing up like a mofo! Expect something big to happen in Q4 /2011 and as y’all know the world is ending in 2012, but not because of the Mayans but rather because of the shock STARTeurope will send throughout the world in 2012.
We’ll share some of the awesomeness with you: right now in the sweating hot city of Ljubljana, our pals from blossom.io, railsonfire and finderly are having a shot at winning Mini-Seedcamp Ljubljana. Yeah right, our startup community is betta than yours!
On to the Weekly Mashup:
More at http://www.starteurope.at/jobs/
The internets:
Alex Rosen, a former tech noob, on why you should read Hacker News even if you don’t have a clue or the power of sponge learning
Ever wondered what was the key to the great success of the entrepreneurs behind PayPal? Check out this great Quora discussion for some deep insights.
Thinking about funding? Uhuh, try this one: the anatomy of a (un)fundable startup
A Brit who made the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to live, eat and breath the world’s leading hub for technology startup innovation, writes about how he’s been largely unimpressed and disappointed by the quality of startups over there.
Events coming up in Austria this week:
When: Tuesday, July 19th, starting 7pm
Where: Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, 1010 Vienna
What: A regular meetup of people interested in DevOps
When: Wednesday, July 20th, starting 7 pm
Where: Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, 1010 Vienna
What: A regular Meetup for Python Geeks
When: Friday, July 22nd, starting 7 pm
Where: Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, 1010 Vienna
What: An introduction to Bitcoin and a platform to exchanges thoughts and ideas on Bitcoin
You have an event coming up which should be featured here? Stumbled upon something hot (like really hot)? Want us to post your job offerings? For suggestions and hints, please drop a mail to julian.sametinger@starteurope.at
July 10 2011
The guest post was written by @haritashtamvada, who won the STARTup Live Vienna #4 with his startup Warrantify.
I
started my entrepreneurial journey in Finland (there is more to that country than just Nokia) where I was pursuing my doctoral studies. I’ve had this idea itching in my mind for a while back then (thanks to the wonderful weather ‘up north’ it gave me ample time to think about it). As a young college grad with virtually no ‘shadow’ to bank on (read: work experience) I took the plunge and set out on solving a problem which I believe almost any consumer who has ever bought a consumer electronic device would instantly connect to: Paper based warranties and receipts and the pain of managing them (all of a sudden you realize that Murphy came up with the Murphy’s law looking at those receipts, you lose them when you want them the most!).
After a bit of pondering and convincing my professor, I quit my doctoral studies and started working on this idea which eventually took the shape of Warrantify.com, to basically challenge the fact that we don’t need ‘paper based’ warranties and receipts. They are obsolete. Instead make it digital. And we’ve set out on starting what we call is a ‘paperless movement’. The beauty in the problem we’re solving is, even your granny would say “Oh yeah, Finally! Someone’s doing this!” *sigh *.
I guess, things started looking bright for my startup life when I decided to participate in the STARTup Live #4 event at Vienna, Austria conducted by STARTeurope. I think people were wondering, what on earth is this guy from India, who studies in Finland doing here in Austria? But I guess, the beauty of such events is your nationality doesn’t matter – it’s your idea and the ability to make a convincing case around it, which matters. After a weekend of brainstorming at the event which by the way, had some amazing and highly motivated folks to help us investors, angels, people from diverse backgrounds, the guys who’ve been-there-done-that, all-in-all a great mix of innovative people making it a fertile ground for you to really test your idea and get the right feedback. Eventually, our team went on to win the contest and kind of validated our belief that this could be a viable business opportunity and more so for me personally as it gave a HUGE morale boost, the much wanted ‘psychological push’ which gets you going. May be that was the turning point of my entrepreneurial career? Since then, we’ve made good progress in building our platform, getting consumers as well as retailers on board…
So how has the journey been so far? Super rough. Educating. Enriching with a steep learning curve. But looking back, Entrepreneurship is not for the faint hearted. Period.
You’ll come across lots of moments when you’ll feel like “What the heck, the bank balance is near zero and I need to get my hands on that cool gadget out in the market last week” and worse still, you really want to hire that hacker guy to do the awesome coding he does, but cannot pay him, although you’d hand out that check if you really could write one. The ‘Angels’ are looking for ‘traction’ and something ‘concrete’ (which is highly ironical in the sense that you need those funds to build something concrete). Trust me, I’ve been through all this. At the end, you’d have to take a call, is this for me? Can I handle the rough terrains ahead?
In recent times lots of people think being an entrepreneur is ‘sexy’. Well, the hard truth is the road ahead has a LOT of scary turns and bumps, which make people drop out mid-way, often dejected. But starting up is a long journey and success is not an equation or an end result, it’s a continuous process. There is no magic formula to succeed in the tumultuous road ahead but my experience of being an entrepreneur so far has taught me that hard-work and persistence pays. You need to believe in your vision. Having a good team makes it easy to travel the distance AND keeping things bloody simple helps. As Naval Ravikant once tweeted “Persistence beats timing. Execution beats luck. Not immediately, but eventually”, I think it speaks volumes about why believing in what you do is important. If you don’t believe in it yourself, how would you convince others? Easier said than done, but I think the mantra to succeed in a startup is – stick to the basics, do things right AND talk to your customers. It just works!
July 6 2011
Mirëdita!
We’ve been to Prishtina again – this time, the location was the same (American University of Kosovo) BUT the format was quite different than the traditional STARTup Live. We called it a Casting and well…we were looking for the (potentially) hottest Web- and Mobile Startups in Kosovo.
Sounds interesting, huh? Get all the goodness here:
http://www.starteurope.at/3944/roundup-of-startup-live-casting-prishtina
Want to see a STARTup Live happening in your town? Drop us a mail and we’ll work something out!
Sooo…what’s buzzing these days?
Tripwolf howls for Mobile Application Developers for iPhone and Android: http://goo.gl/fo7NT
Play.fm turns up the music and is offering good vibes for Blackberry Devs, iPhone Devs, Web-Frontend Devs, Backend Devs, MySQL Experts and Interns: http://goo.gl/Ys9vb
TunesBag.com wants to groove with Mobile Applications Developers for iPhone and Android: http://goo.gl/YdtqZ
Finderly is looking for a PHP Developer to build their ship: http://goo.gl/j98Ix
Yasssu wants to conquer the world with an International Sales Manager:http://goo.gl/qRxh9
Hack the world with IP SQUARE as a Software Developer: http://goo.gl/Ns7On
More at http://www.starteurope.at/jobs/
The internets:
Aaaight, Google + is still the hottest thing right now but facebook isn’t sleeping at all: they just have launched three new products!
Fred Wilson is having a few thoughts on European Startups
Sandboxer Dave Radparvar of Holstee on how one single picture can boost your startup like hell or how you can’t plan the extraordinary
The guys from 500 Startups explain how to recruit rockstars like Ari Gold from Entourage.
Events coming up in Austria this week:
When: July 8-10, all the friggin’ weekend long
Where: Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, 1010 Vienna
What: How the environmental movement lost focus and why we urgently need an informed, science based environmentalism.
When: Wednesday, July 13th, 6-8 pm
Where: TheHub Vienna, Lindengasse 56, Top 17-18 (court entrance), 1070 Vienna, Austria
What: How the environmental movement lost focus and why we urgently need an informed, science based environmentalism.
When: Friday, July 15th, 10-12 am
Where: TheHub Vienna, Lindengasse 56, Top 17-18 (court entrance), 1070 Vienna, Austria
What: How the environmental movement lost focus and why we urgently need an informed, science based environmentalism.
You have an event coming up which should be featured here? Stumbled upon something hot (like really hot)? Want us to post your job offerings? For suggestions and hints, please drop a mail to julian.sametinger@starteurope.at
July 1 2011
Key Facts
- When: June 11th to June 12th 2011
- Where: American University in Kosovo (Prishtina)
- 35 Participants
- 25 Guests
- 6 Mentors
- 5 Experts
- 7 Teams
- 3 Teams competing at Final Challenge
- Team invited to STARTup WEEK 2011:
The Pitchers
Final Round Competitors
- FindD
a location-based job platform to find developers according to different criteria
- Penguin Community
an educational video platform that is localized and aims to fill the gaps in the established, formal education system.
- The Pitchers – working title
knowledge accumulation meets game dynamics on a platform (“the universe”) that is aimed at youngsters
STARTup Live returns to Prishtina
STARTeurope came back to Prishtina after one year again! This time, the location was the same (American University of Kosovo) BUT the format was quite different than the traditional STARTup Live. We called it a Casting and well… we were looking for the (potentially) hottest Web- and Mobile Startups in Kosovo. And they came: about 35 participants in seven teams started on Saturday. After an intense pitch training, there was an extended business model session, both held by Can Ertugrul and being amazingly supported by the mentors we flew in from Vienna and Vilnius: Mark Tuttle, Bernhard Thalhammer and Kushtrim Xhakli.
On Sunday, we switched to competition mode, brought in some additional local mentors and IT industry experts from Tirana, Albania to get the best teams in shape for the final showdown that night. All teams went through several rounds of revision, iteration and refinement of their concepts, with some of them even dumping their original ideas alltogether. Some would say, the pressure was almost too big, but in my view, it’s absolutely okay to let go from a project early on if it turns out to be not rock-solid. Failure is fine! In fact, eliminating “wrong paths” quickly is priceless. “Fail fast, die hard” should be the credo (especially as the startup scene allows for rapid resurrection!) Three teams survived all the way to the end and competed for tickets to STARTup WEEK 2011 in Vienna.
…. and the winner is:
The Pitchers
as you can guess from their name, their Pitch was convincing 
They now have the whole summer to basically work off their asses to get ready for the StartUp
Week, where they will participate at the StartUp Challenge and compete with 49 other startups for
10 slots to pitch in front of a panel that makes you lick your fingers.
It was great to be in Prishtina (again) and we are looking forward for the next chance to go there!
[STARTeurope Team Prishtina: over and out ]
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“The Pitchers" of Kosovo by Çelik Nimani, editor-in-chief of PCWorld magazine (Albanian edition) '] [/foldup]
A small country branded “The young Europeans” had a quite fired up weekend on the startup
scene. After intense days of pitch training, mentoring and competition “The Pitchers” were the ones
who “survived” and won the Startup Live Casting in Prishtina – a gateway to the European Startup
Festival happening in Vienna in October.
During the days of 11-12th June a small auditorium of the American University of Prishtina wasn’t
big enough for the bright ideas of the ambitious startup guys from Kosovo, who pitched many great
ideas from next generation learning systems to mobile apps for fighting the country’s corruption.
Can Ertugrul from i5invest spiced up the audience, giving advice on great pitching techniques and
next big things to motivate the participants, illustrated by various examples of success and failure.
“I pitch, therefore I am” (… Guy Kawasaki)”
To move ideas to the next level, Startup Live Prishtina made sure to bring experts from Vienna and
local mentors with international experience. After completing half-baked pitches on the first day it
was clear that these young potential startup guys could benefit a lot from mentors Mark Tuttle (I
have to call him “Wordsmither”), Bernhard Thalhammer (“The Yes Man”) and of course Can Ertugrul
(“The One”), in return the mentors were welcomed to join the traditional-great-hospitality dinner
covering startup topics.
“Pitching makes perfect”
To combine the model of local vs international experience the organizers brought mentors with
international experience. Kushtrim Xhakli (“The Deal closer”) and Arianit Dobroshi (“Master Joda”)
worked intensively on spreadsheets for modeling costs, revenue models and identifying the
problems of bootstrapping or refining a business model with every new customer.
After hours of engagement “The Penguin Community”, “The Pitchers” and “finD” were three out of
six teams to pitch on the big stage competing for the prize. The dropouts decided to stand back and
watch fearing failure.
The Penguins
Description:
The Penguins proposed to create a web-based community where people post articles, documents and ideas that directly contribute to a better life in the community. This way, users earn points which give an overview of who is contributing most to the community. The business idea is focused on the community side, so money would have to come from donations and NGOs.
Achievements:
Description: They already did have a brand, a preview of their web page and a way to make our living better.
Things to work on:
Too many similar projects around and potential investors might not be not interested.
The Pitchers
Description:
The Pitchers had a very good presentation, a business idea and a monetization model defined. They want to enhance the classical ways of education by challenging it with an interactive game structured in circles, which represent “knowledge galaxies” that connect with other circles of knowledge, and they expand circle by circle.
As Xhakli said, it’s sort of “Angry Birds meets Wikipedia”. There’s also the revenue model story, besides interactive learning of chemistry or math, companies can use the model to engage users by showing their products in an interactive way.
Achievements:
They convinced the jury and… won!
Things to work on:
They need to team up and make a working product for, “Startup Week”, the European Startup Festival.
finD
Description:
finD is highly qualified in technical terms, and they had an idea that should be competitive in thecontext of freelancer.com or elance.com. They try to build up a web/mobile service (they already have a working prototype) that could serve companies looking for a developer or designer close to them, and vice versa designers or developers can locate companies that post job offers.
Achievements:
The team demonstrated its working prototype and projected seven-digit revenues three years after launch.
Let’s see whether they can deliver on part two!
Things to work on:
In spite of their strong technological background, the presentation did not quite convince the expert panel, especially in the light of facing some big fishes as head-on competitors.
Wrap-up
During these two days, everyone learned a huge lesson on the startup business that they should keep in mind. Everyone was thrilled to be there and started practicing approaches, designing solutions and making field testing.
Before moving on to making a toast for the great time that everyone had, one should not forget everyone that helped to make this event happen in Kosovo.
First of all IPKO Foundation, a local NPO working towards improving the high tech entrepreneurial environment in Kosovo, then UNI Group under the leadership of its president Valmir Mustafa who did a great job organizing the event, then the guys from STARTeurope, a Vienna-based team that sets out to stimulate entrepreneurial
action and thinking around Europe, and ECiKS – an organization focused on promoting investments in Kosovo. There was also Unique, a junior enterprise team from Albania, which supported the event and brought some additional action to the second Startup Live event in Prishtina.
Well let’s say we will be seeing more and more ideas on next year’s event so stay tuned for more news from Kosovo’s startup scene, which is shaping gradually.
UNI Group and STARTeurope would like to thank Çelik Nimani for contributing this coverage of our event.
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You can also watch our selected event pictures directly at our Flickr page.
Photographs courtesy to Çelik Nimani and Can Ertugrul.
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Mentors/Jury
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Mark Tuttle – biogy.com (Austria / USA)
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Arianit Dobroshi – FLOSS Kosova (Kosovo)
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Bernhard Thalhammer – firstlovecapital (Austria / Japan)
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Besnik Krasniqi – Business Startup Center Kosova (Kosovo)
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Kushtrim Xhakli – xhakli.com, Fast Europe Ventures (Lithuania / Kosovo)
Trainers/Coaches
- Can Ertugrul Can is working for i5invest, a leading Vienna-based incubator for web and mobile startups. i5invest ist a member of the Vienna-based web- and mobile startup cluster IntialFactor, a “one-stop shop“ for entrepreneurs. Together with two of Austria’s most highly recognized business angels, he now focuses on creating a novel online payment solution, “payolution“. His university studies and professional roles already took him to places as diverse as Hong Kong, China, Ukraine or Turkey. Before Can joined i5invest, he was an active member of STARTeurope, the co-host of Startup Live Casting Prishtina. On behalf of STARTeurope and Initial Factor, Can frequently serves as the cluster’s lead pitch trainer and business model consultant, coaching individuals and teams in Austria and abroad. Can visited Prishtina for the first time in June 2010 as part of the follow-up program for successful startup teams formed during last year’s event.
- Marius Starcke Marius is working at TheMerger, a boutique M & A advisory and business development consultancy for web and mobile startups. TheMerger, with its offices in Vienna and San Francisco, is another member of the Intial Factor cluster. His previous experiences within the IT landscape range from key account management at a multimedia agency in Germany via offshoring management in India to international sales channel marketing at IBM. In 2010, Marius temporarily joined Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Since his return to TheMerger, he has been actively involved in raising the first ‘Super Angel Fund’ for the Alps & Danube region, which is due to launch this summer. As an early member of STARTeurope, Marius led the team’s internationalization efforts and has attended more than a dozen startup events across Central and Eastern Europe as a mentor. Together with Valmir of UNI Group, Marius co-organized last year’s event in Prishtina and has visited Kosovo in this context already several times.
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Thanks to all our partners who made this possible. Supporting a crazy bunch like us cannot be easy
Nah honestly, you rock. Thanks.
lead sponsor
ipko foundation [ www.ipkofoundation.org ] IPKO Foundation is a local operating foundation in Kosovo. Its goal is to seed and support the development of the next generation of leaders with a digital vision for Kosovo. These young leaders may come from any sector or discipline but are united in their embrace of technology, Internet and the information society.
venue and coaching partners
American University of Kosovo [ www.aukonline.org ] American University in Kosovo is the only non-profit private university in Kosovo. Teaching is in English, and students are enrolled in degree programs at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Initial Factor [ www.initialfactor.com ] Initial Factor is a Vienna-based cluster initiative that serves as a one-stop-shop for web and mobile startups in Central Europe.
Organizers
UNI Group [ www.uni-group.org ] Founded in 2006, UNI Group is the first junior enterprise in Kosovo. It has been working to establish partnerships with businesses, academic and governmental institutions in Kosovo, as well as with student consultancies throughout Europe. In 2008, UNI Group joined JADE (The European Confederation of Junior Enterprises) as Consultative Member, and represents Kosovo within this network.
STARTeurope [ www.starteurope.at/ ] STARTeurope aims to stimulate entrepreneurial action and thinking in Europe by enabling people to realize their own business ideas and successfully launch new companies. Using concepts like Start-up Live, complementary skill sets are linked in new venture teams. The organisation was founded in 2009 by graduates of universities in Vienna.
eciks [www.eciks.org] With its professionalism and dedication, ECIKS has grown to be the leading organization in investment promotion for Kosovo. Independently or through donor-funded projects, ECIKS has served more than 100 foreign companies. With many of them already generating profits in Kosovo, ECIKS seeks to contribute to a prosperous and dynamic Kosovo, fully integrated in the European Union.
Supporters
unique [ www.uni-que.org ] unique is the first junior enterprise in Albania, founded in 2009. likewise to its sister organization UNI Group, unique works towards partnerships with local businesses and academic and institutions, as well as with student consultancies in other parts of Europe. unique joined JADE as the networks first Albanian partner organisation in 2010.
Media partners
Indeksonline [ www.indeksonline.net ] Indeksonline.net is a newly established news agency based in Pristina. With a fresh and easy-oriented design, it contains everything you need to know about Kosovo: the political, economic, showbiz and sports events. And, it’s quick and original as the motto goes. With only the first anniversary approaching Indeksonline.net was quoted several times for its exclusive reporting, not only by the main-stream media in Kosovo, but in the region as well.
