According to a recent publication by it.mk, in 2019 Macedonian shoppers spent most of their money online in stores in Macedonia. This is also a pattern seen in the State Statistical Office data shared by e-Commerce Macedonia. Unlike the last year, Macedonians now mostly buy online from sellers inside the country (38.8%), as compared to last year […]
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Vestbee, the leading matching platform that connects global VC funds, corporates, accelerators and business angels with startups and scaleups from Central & Eastern Europe + DACH has just launched the biggest regional online competition – CEE Startup Challenge (www.ceestartupchallenge.com). Innovative, fast-growing SMEs from Central & Eastern Europe and DACH that will apply before December 1st, […]
While the rest of the world launches rockets into space and brings them back in one piece, talks about wide usage of electric cars or implanting computers into your brain, there is Kosovo and North Macedonia, that still have issues with online payments. It seems that at least for now North Macedonia in a recent […]
This year marks the 4th year of K-Startup Grand Challenge which has been a part of South Korea’s global startup acceleration programs organized by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency. K-Startup Grand Challenge was established with the goal of promoting the expansion of an open entrepreneurship ecosystem in […]
Six Balkan countries have signed a European Union-backed agreement to remove roaming charges by 2021 as part of efforts to boost cooperation in the region. The agreement was signed Thursday by Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo during a summit on digital technology in Belgrade, Serbia. It envisages a gradual reduction of roaming […]
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Win 1M EUR in CEE Startup Challenge
Vestbee, leading dealflow platform that connects global VC funds, corporates, accelerators and business angels with startups and scaleups from Central & Eastern Europe together with CEE Business Angels Network, has launched the third edition of CEE Startup Challenge (www.ceestartupchallenge.com) – the biggest regional online competition for startups and scaleups, where one can win up to […]
Top Digital Agency (TDA) is ringing in the New Year with a global project competition for companies! TDA decided to give back to its community by creating a competition to find the best global projects and to earn a chance to win $10,000 in project funding. They wondered what the best way was to show […]
Resumes have a somewhat ongoing bad reputation. We take care of them usually during transitions and we fiddle what we know into the best possible resume format that we can find out there. For smart job seekers, resumes are an opportunity — to make a case for their candidacy, to get the salary they’ve earned, and to […]
Being a productive CEO is not about putting in the time, rather it’s about putting the right time in the right places. Your level of productivity is one of the best ways you can push your startup toward success. Startups are defined by growth. And growth is measured by a metric over time. If you […]
Macedonia is the top performer from Southeast Europe (SEE) in the latest Doing Business in 2019 report of the World Bank Group, released on Wednesday. Macedonia ranked 10th, and Albania is the only SEE countries which improved their rankings compared with 2018, according to data from the Doing Business 2019: A Year of Record Reforms, Rising […]