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Business Startup Center Kosova: E-Business Course Week 2 ideas

By Kushtrim Xhakli ⋅ June 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Week 2 of e-business course held from 19-23 May 2008 produced various discussions, tactics and ideas for doing e-business in Kosovo. Also during the second week, Kosovo students had the unique opportunity to hear two days guest lecture from Prof. Jonathan Briggs, E-Commerce professor in Kingston University, London. Mr. Briggs engaged the students with activities [...]

Business Startup Center Kosova: E-Business Course Week 1 ideas

By Kushtrim Xhakli ⋅ May 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

From the e-business course that I am lecturing, last week students came with four e-business ideas:
Growing People Kosova
Website which provides information on pregnancy, baby, birth, child care, kindergartens and includes the part where you can exchange ideas, discuss articles & reviews, ask questions, and contact directly to the doctor also having an opportunity to book [...]

Flare Award Winner - Entrepreneur 2008

By Kushtrim Xhakli ⋅ May 10, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Congratulation to my friend Hajrë Hyseni for the Flare Award - Entrepreneur 2008.. I am really impressed!

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

By Kushtrim Xhakli ⋅ April 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I had the unique opportunity this year to visit CERN’s Large Hadron Collider a day after LIFT Conference 2008, an experience which helped me to understand better CERN and its innovation. I was in a group together with Bruce Sterling, Ben Segal, Robert Scoble (who did the video below), Aral Balkan and others. Below is [...]

Economist: The world’s newest state

By Kushtrim Xhakli ⋅ March 1, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Its declaration of independence is the start of another chapter, not of a new book, says The Economist quoting my comment about technology opportunities in Kosovo.
Kushtrim Xhakli, an internet entrepreneur, says the problem lies deeper: stick-in-the-mud thinking and no tradition of letting private companies get larger than one family can control. “They are frightened [...]

New Year’s Resolutions

By Kushtrim Xhakli ⋅ January 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

1. Write a new business plan idea each quarter
2. Wake up one hour earlier and go to sleep a hour earlier than in 2007
3. Subscribe to The Economist, Time Magazine, Wired this year.
4. Read books about Airlines Industry
5. Use often my new Sony DSCT70B Digital Camera and buy a Flickr Pro account
6. Spend less time [...]

Win a Cisco Scholarship in Kosovo

By Kushtrim Xhakli ⋅ April 16, 2007 ⋅ 20 comments

IDI (Information Development Initiative) in cooperation with the company Inter-Service is sponsoring scholarships for the CISCO NETWORKING ACADEMY in Kosovo. Scholarships are distributed into three categories: Category A scholarship covers 100% of the costs (10 scholarships), Category B scholarship covers 50% of the costs (30 scholarships), Category C scholarship covers 30% of the costs (50 [...]

Is Web 2.0 Expo aware of TechCrunch?

By Kushtrim Xhakli ⋅ April 5, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Mike Arrington called me two days ago on my private cell phone in relation to my previous post regarding the Technology Usage in SEE. Following our phone conversation he invited to give me a free ticket for Web 2.0, I checked the dates and on that time I will be out of country going to [...]