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Posts by: Jorn Lyseggen
Dear parents, guests, friends and colleagues, dear entrepreneurs-in-training (EITs), dear class of 2011,
My warmest congratulations on this big day. Standing here today with the class of 2001, the 3rd class of graduates is incredibly moving. MEST is a two year program that has tested you in so many ways. Before you started I…
Yesterday, NandiMobile, a start-up from the MEST Incubator won a“Best Business” award at the LAUNCH conference in San Francisco, in competition with almost 100 Silicon Valley start-ups! While other start-ups won bigger awards, the “Best Business” award is nevertheless a huge win for everybody at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST).
About the ‘LAUNCH’…
The MEST idea was announced in January 2007 at Meltwater’s annual Kick-Off (an all-hands company event). We committed ourselves to a 10-year project in which we planned to build and oversee the development of a 2-year program in Africa that would train future software entrepreneurs. It was a big and bold…
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