To see a little glimpse of what I have been up to within this third year of Peace Corps service, check out what fellow volunteer, David Jarmul has recently shared on his blog Not Exactly Retired. Thank you, David, it was good to see you and Champa at the Maker Faire this past weekend at Tekwill!
Moldova’s entrepreneurship scene keeps getting bigger.
I’ve written previously about the Dreamups Innovation Campus and the Diamond Challenge competition for high school students, in which the team I mentored claimed one of the top prizes this year.
On Sunday, Champa and I visited Tekwill, a center that opened in March in northern Chișinău. It’s an educational and entrepreneurial hub with coworking spaces, a pre-acceleration program, startup competitions, events and resources ranging from 3D printers to international guest speakers.
Tekwill is among a growing list of local entrepreneurial and startup resources here that now includes iHUB, Generator Hub, Dreamups, 404 Moldova and GEN Moldova.
“Moldova’s capital, Chișinău, is among many cities around the world that aspire to develop a startup scene of their own,” Sergiu Matei, one of the founders of Dreamups, wrote recently on Startup Grind. “To be sure, no one will mistake it yet…
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