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Category: Startup Ecosystem
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Bishkek Investment Forum, December 2016: Travel Hackathon Winners Pitch the Room
On December 8, 2016 — four days after the Travel and Tourism Hackathon finals at AUCA — two winning teams from the hackathon walked…
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Startup Nations Summit 2016, Cork: First Edition in Europe, Seventy Member Countries
In November 2016, KG Labs traveled to Cork, Ireland for the annual Startup Nations Summit — the gathering of the global Startup Nations network,…
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How to Transform Kyrgyzstan into a Startup Nation: Five Barriers, Six Pillars, One Roadmap
50% of users on popular local sites – Internet connections 2015: 2G: 3,297,003; 3G: 1,768,305; Ethernet: 183,209; LTE: 94,841 – ICT share of GDP:…
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Startup Tuesday at Ololohaus, June 2016: Global Tech Trends from Bishkek
On June 27, 2016, Aziz Soltobaev gave a Startup Tuesday talk at Ololohaus — the Bishkek co-working space and creative hub that had become…
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GDG Bishkek DevFest 2015 — How to Build a Successful Startup
At GDG Bishkek DevFest on 21 November 2015, Aziz Soltobaev gave a Russian-language talk to the Google Developer Group community on how to build…
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Startup Safary Bishkek 2015: First Edition Across Five Companies
In March 2015, while attending a Garage48 hackathon in Kyiv to study the methodology before bringing it to Bishkek, Aziz Soltobaev met Maciek Laskus…
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The Pitch Bishkek 2015: Asylbek Abdikarimov to Startup Nations Summit Monterrey
On September 22, 2015, a pitch competition at a venue in Bishkek selected the Kyrgyz startup that would travel to Monterrey, Mexico and compete…
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Garage48 Bishkek 2015: 48 Hours, AUCA, and the First Hackathon at Scale
From September 11 to 13, 2015, the new campus of the American University of Central Asia on Aaly Tokombaev Street hosted something Bishkek had…
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Future Agro Challenge 2015: Tilek Toktogaziev Wins Bishkek, Athens Trip Funded by UNDP
In June 2015, KG Labs organized the first Future Agro Challenge competition in Kyrgyzstan — and in Central Asia. The Future Agro Challenge is…
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KG Labs Joins Startup Nations and Attends the 2015 Summit in Mexico
On May 6, 2015, KG Labs was accepted into the Startup Nations network. Startup Nations is a global membership organisation for people working…
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Venture Capital Lecture, May 2015: Term Sheets, Valuation, and Storytelling for Investors
On May 2, 2015, Aziz Soltobaev presented a lecture on venture capital and private equity to the residents of Ideagrad — a startup incubator…