Entrepreneurship

1. How will the first generation of entrepreneurs say their goodbyes?

Bulgarian software developer QuarkVR said on Tuesday that it has attracted two new investments worth more than 500,000 levs (3,000/256,000 euro) in total, as it won the trust and support of local investor CEO Angels Club, reports SeeNews. 

The startup's most pressing issue currently is the expansion of its team of specialists, QuarkVR said in a statement.  

The RogLab project is a part of the Rog factory, an important industrial centre in the past, that will be turned into a modern creative space.

Greek-American businesswoman and angel investor Marina Hatsopoulos sees "two different worlds" in Greece.

Greece has a very poor record as far as the amounts invested in startups by venture capital funds are concerned: Since 2013, no more than 220 million euros has been invested in local startups, placing Greece in 23rd place among 34 European countries, according to Atomico's annual report presented this week, titled "The State of Europe Tech 2018."

Greece is experiencing a rise in employment at companies that are reliant on brain power, according to a report by the European Center for Policy Reform and Entrepreneurship (ECEPR).

Impact Hub presents "Pitch Your Failure," an event where four social entrepreneurs from Greece, Cyprus, Morocco and Spain will talk about their failures rather than their successes. The November 23 event, which starts at 7 p.m., is organized with the support of ChangemakerXchange, Ashoka, the Goethe Institute in Athens and UIDU.

Dr Peter Diamandis, the man behind Singularity University, speaks at the launch of the two-day SingularityU Greece Summit at the Athens Concert Hall Monday. The author, scientist and entrepreneur is executive chairman of the XPrize Foundation, which designs large incentive prizes for radical breakthroughs in aid of humanity.

One of the strongest evidence that young Bulgarians are not lazy but loving development are the innovative startups they create. In Bulgaria, the startup idea and the overall culture are developing with full force and they are becoming more and more popular.

The last decade has witnessed the emergence of certain myths surrounding entrepreneurship and start-ups both nationally and globally. Recent Turkish graduates have seemingly concluded that older generations got their careers all wrong: They believe public sector jobs pertain to a bureaucratic and old-style state structures, while corporate jobs are dying-out legacies.