StarLift

11/07/2018

Read another story of one of our interns who just got back from his 10 month gig in a Berlin startup as a front-end developer & UX designer. Víťa Svojše is 19 years old, got into the world of programming at the age of 12 and after a couple of years of working for big corporates, he wanted to experience the startup world before he enrolls at university. It's been a true joy working with him and we cannot wait to see how he'll capitalise on what he has learnt in the past year!

When this 19-year-old StarLifter joined the team of the German start-up Sennder in August 2017, their offices were in a garage — literally…

16/04/2018

Juraj was the first starlifter we placed in a great high-growth startup Spendee based in Prague for a summer internship before he went off to study Computer Science at Cambridge last summer, because every step in the right direction counts! Check out the interview with him on our blog to learn a thing or two (actually many) from someone truly exceptional!

This is one hell of a StarLifter! Juraj may only be 20 and come from Košice, a town in eastern Slovakia, but that did not stop him from…

14/12/2017

Not only is our starlifter Jakub a great engineer, but he's also slowly but surely turning into a media star! Forbes Czech Republic interviewed him about the nature of work in NYC based startup Vestorly.

Práce z domu se tam pořád pokládá za benefit, firma dává 12 dolarů na oběd denně a občerstvení v kanceláři zdarma je standardem, stejně jako pingpongový stůl. Jakub Kvita vystudoval IT v Brně, dnes, kdy je mu šestadvacet, pracuje v newyorském startupu Vestorly, který se zabývá...

28/11/2017

ATTENTION! Today we are officially launching our blog to share stories of our Starlifters, stimulate passion for technology and entrepreneurship and provide useful information, insight and experience. We want to inspire by rising Czech and Slovak stars and make young people fully appreciate that in order to succeed in tomorrow’s world, they need to keep going up!

Keep going up — StarLift.org.

12/09/2017

MEET ONE OF THE FIRST (unofficial) STARLIFTERS (already from 2011)! StarLift is all about exploring - your potential, entrepreneurship and the world in general. We also do our best to explore - opportunities for placing our starlifters in particular. And hence we spent a few weeks in New York this summer speaking to local startups and getting to know the NYC ecosystem. Vojta Ciml from Slideslive.com kindly provided us with the best possible base for our operations in his office located at WeWork.com in downtown Manhattan (thank you!!). The story of SlidesLive is our hope for you - coming to Silicon Valley in 2011 just for 2 months, getting excited about creating something meaningful, working super hard for it, failing, learning and persevering and slowly but surely (hopefully) succeeding. https://archiv.ihned.cz/c1-65782580-investori-nalili-milion-dolaru-do-firmy-ktera-nataci-prednasky

04/09/2017

NIGHT OF CHANCES in BRNO EARLYBIRD ENDING TONIGHT! Hello! We hope you had a great summer. We have been quiet, but working very hard to provide you with know-how, inspiration, work opportunities and more - stay tuned! And now (not only) for the Brno tech crowd - Night of Chances bringing know-how and opportunities from companies such as ESET, Websupport, Innovatrics and more taking place in early November at FI MUNI is ending their promo sale of tickets tonight! For more information, check them out on Eventbrite and Facebook https://www.eventbrite.com/e/night-of-chances-technology-brno-tickets-36983431439?iitt=VuU9RM4lhMPshFW3hf8gboBDEkeZaksuEG8vVuVT&utm_campaign=Unnamed+email+campaign&utm_source=exponea&utm_medium=email

Night of Chances Technology je jeden večer v roce, během kterého potkáš na půdě školy top lídry a experty technologických firem připravených předat ti své know-how a cenné zkušenosti z praxe. Všímaš si, že během studia častokrát nevíš, co přinese realita? My také. Night of Chances tyto rozdíly stírá...

04/07/2017

Microsoft squeezed Machine Learning onto a $10 computer.

Sometimes the best place to showcase the potential of a bold, world-changing technology is a flower garden. Take the case of Ofer Dekel, for example. He manages the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington. Squirrels often devoured flower bulbs in hi...

26/06/2017

Do you remember that good old Microsoft Messenger sound? Or that sound your computer made when it was starting up back in the ’90s? Will your children know what a dial-up modem sounded like?

23/06/2017

The handbook is now available for free!

PythonDataScienceHandbook - Jupyter Notebooks for the Python Data Science Handbook

15/06/2017

A few words of wisdom from Steve Jobs to keep your motivation high.

29/05/2017

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19/03/2017

STARTUP WEEKEND IS OVER | Read what you've missed & don't forget to join next time - for new info & updates follow StartupWeekend Prague! :)

„Účastnil jsem se především proto, abych poznal startupový svět ve střední Evropě, rozšířil si obzory a propojil se s podobně smýšlejícími lidmi. Byl to můj první StartupWeekend a byla to pecka.” - Iulian Gulea

Startup Weekend je 3 denní událost, při které účastníci přestavují své technologické nápady, hlasováním vyberou ty nejlepší a následujících 54 hodin pracují na prvotním prototypu.