The Pursuit of Scrappiness #43 "Year in Review Pt 2/2" Comparing Best & Worst Government Decisions towards Startups in Baltics + Tech Predictions for 2022 with Jone Vaituleviciute 🇱🇹 , Toms Niparts 🇱🇻 and Eerik Oja 🇪🇪
Welcome to the 2nd part of the Pursuit of Scrappiness 2 episode Christmas Special. Janis and Uldis are joined by previous star guests Toms Niparts from Jeff app (full interview in Episode #1), Eerik Oja from Planet42 (Episode #3) and Jone Vaituleviciute from Startup Wise Guys (Episode #20) to discuss the events in 2021 and make predictions about 2022.
In this episode we talk about the relationship between governments, politicians and the startup ecosystem - what has been done right and what is still lacking? We also look into the crystal ball and try to see what the Baltic startup world looks like in 2022.
The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps
[02:30] - GOVERNMENT vs TECH, BEST & WORST FROM LV, LT AND EE
- What Estonian govt has done right in tech support policy
- Importance of immigration laws
- Lithuanian government relationship with the startup ecosystem
- Latvian government relationship with the startup ecosystem
- How to get governments more involved in supporting startups
- How easy is it to bring foreigners to the Baltics to work at your startup
[25:00] - PREDICTIONS FOR 2022
- Challenges for startups - inflation and talent shortages
- Lithuanian IPO
- New Estonian unicorns
- End of he pandemic?
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