Horizon Development COVID Report:

Now that the COVID lockdowm measures are easying down 🌞 it s a good time to report on Horizon's very busy months activities during the lockdown.

This was an interesting time for everyone. 

This was the opportunity for Horizon to get back to its late 1990s and early 2000s roots, when the Managing Partner of Horizon was back then the founder and Director of the MassDefense Institute, a Cambridge based emergency preparedness training organization. The MassDefense Institute notably played an important role in training organizations on protective measures response during the anthrax crisis of 2001-2002 in the Metropolitan Boston Area.

23.01.2020

Yesterday was history! 

Fantastic evening at the very first Estonian Startup Award Ceremony with the "creme-de-la-creme" of the Estonian startup mafia. The data is clear: Estonians now master the art of the favorable startup ecosystem: More companies are created. More companies than statistically expected are reaching profitability earlier. But, as Martin Villig and Gerry Kodres put it, next is to see what long-term sustainability is to come and how well can many companies pass the "real" market test. This is perhaps where Horizon Development Market Sniper's proposition to entrepreneurs deserved attention. Horizon Development Market has been bringing its humble contribution to that fantastic ecosystem for over 10 years and will continue to do so: Market Sniper has proven to be a very effective accelerator to early & safe foreign market client acquisition. Market Sniper has been particularly successful for bootstrapped innovative young companies or for big ones that are "shy" to unleash their market potential abroad. It gives bigger companies the opportunity to get started on a market without taking the risk of major investments in time and resource. For young companies, especially the ones seeking financing from the VC ecosystem or from banks, it permits them to enter a market, prove that the product can past the test, while deferring cost into a period of time where the cash flow position of the company is in better condition. Big thumbs up to the Startup Estonia (Maarika Truu) team and to Lift99 (Ragnar Sass) for the initiative, the coordination, the fun hosting and a most memorable evening! Elagu Eesti!! More info here: https://lnkd.in/d-FX3pV hashtag#startupestonia hashtag#Lift99 hashtag#estonia hashtag#startupmetrics hashtag#horizondev hashtag#bootstrapping hashtag#marketsniper hashtag#innovation

Tallinn, April 2012: Horizon Development Markets has won a contract for investigating the Estonian market on the behalf of a fast-growing company. The contract will last about two months and will involve both a survey of about 100 business and 200 interviews, as well as a thorough quantitative and macro-economic analysis. Pierre Blime, Managing Director, hopes that the contract could be possibly extended to Finland and Sweden, after completing the Estonian study, where he suspects there exists a strong market opportunity.