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Kosovo's nascent tech community grows at Prishtina Startup Weekend

December 5, 2011

In 54 hours, young Kosovars took turned ideas into actual companies. They hope to kickstart their own 3-year-old country, which itself remains very much in startup mode.

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On Sunday, Kosovo’s tech community wrapped up the country's first Startup Weekend. Like others that have happened throughout the world, the 54-hour marathon saw minute-long pitches transform into viable startups selling actual products. In Kosovo, a country very much in its own start-up mode, the weekend was as much about fostering the burgeoning geek community as it was about connecting ideas with venture capital.

Report: Nate Tabak, Prishtina