28 Oct 2025

The Athens University of Economics and Business invites faculty, researchers, and graduate students to discover how its Technology Transfer Office (TTO) turns academic work into real‑world innovations. Attendees will learn about the TTO’s mission, IP‑protection and patenting support, Proof‑of‑Concept funding, and hear success stories from AUEB scholars who have commercialized...

Acein Aueb

27 Oct 2025

The Athenian Nexus Winter Summit is taking place on Thursday 11th of December, bringing together key stakeholders in entrepreneurship and innovation. This dynamic event unites enterprises, startups, institutions, universities and members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, fostering meaningful connections and collaborations.

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27 Oct 2025

Before the hacking begins, we bring together the community that fuels the AI Hackathon! This is where innovation meets impact stories, ideas meet momentum and people meet again before stepping into the 3-day competition in March!

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27 Oct 2025

At the Athenian Nexus Summit’s Off The Record event, you’ll have the chance to join exclusive 1:1 meetings with leading companies and industry experts. This is your moment to build connections and unlock future opportunities. Don’t miss it! 🚀Apply now!

Acein Aueb

17 Oct 2025

Planning is overrated. Things won’t go your way, because you wrote them down. This is where discipline is required.

State of Progress

03 Oct 2025

At the Athenian Nexus Summit’s Off The Record event, you’ll have the chance to join exclusive 1:1 meetings with leading companies and industry experts. This is your moment to build connections and unlock future opportunities. Don’t miss it! 🚀Apply now!

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23 Sep 2025

Are you an early-stage or pre-seed startup eager to showcase your ideas and connect with investors? This is your chance to boost your startup’s visibility, connect with investors & industry representatives and explore opportunities for growth! Apply now!

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23 Sep 2025

Do you want to experience the most dynamic student innovation community? Through activities, events, and unique experiences, you will meet new people, develop skills, and become part of ACE! Apply now & join our team!

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10 Sep 2025

The second phase of the Ignite Ideas 4 program concluded successfully, marking a significant milestone for both startups and individual participants!

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30 Jul 2025

The retort to perfectionism is well-defined high standards that, once surpassed, signal it's time to put the work out.

State of Progress

30 Jul 2025

Instead of planning, we would rather "Zappa" things. Improvising towards the end goal, while ensuring the non-negotiables.

State of Progress

22 Jul 2025

Το Κέντρο Καινοτομίας και Επιχειρηματικότητας ΕΜΠ, στο πλαίσιο της Πράξης με τίτλο «Στρατηγικό πλάνο έρευνας του Εθνικού Μετσόβιου Πολυτεχνείου»...

Μονάδα Καινοτομίας Και Επιχειρηματικότητας ΕΜΠ

06 Jun 2025

The Athens Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ACE) and ONASSIS ONX — the global new media and digital culture program of the Onassis Foundation — joined forces to launch a pioneering Summer School designed to empower aspiring professionals, students and businesses with the mindset, skills, and tools to shape the...

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07 May 2025

In early 2023, three 20-year-old students—Konstantinos Ketselidis, Konstantinos Lampropoulos, and Alexios Vasileiou—faced a common frustration: the process of running influencer campaigns was slow, manual, and inefficient.

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07 May 2025

In 2020, while still students at the National Technical University of Athens, Dimitris Koufopanos, Christos Kouskouris, and Ilias Mouchlis realized something most university students in Greece could relate to: there was no single platform to help them manage their academic life.

Acein Aueb

07 May 2025

The vision behind MAGOS was sparked by a deceptively simple yet powerful question: What if we could feel the digital world like we do the physical one?

Acein Aueb

07 May 2025

In 2014, two students from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Υannis Ιmelos and Stefanos Alkidis, recognized a significant challenge: the process of finding internships and entry-level jobs in Greece was outdated and inefficient for both students and employers.

Acein Aueb

07 May 2025

In 2020, amidst the challenges of financial accessibility in Greece, two visionary entrepreneurs, Antonis Prentzas and Marios Noutsos, identified a significant gap in the market: the need for fair and transparent credit options for consumers.

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07 May 2025

The story of Enaleia began with a personal realization by Lefteris Arapakis, a young economics graduate and fifth-generation fisherman.

Acein Aueb

07 May 2025

The idea for Dataphoria was born when two civil engineers, Anastasis Stamatis and Fenya Kotsopoulou, found themselves at the intersection of technology and climate action.

Acein Aueb

07 May 2025

In 2012, three passionate individuals—Yiannis Nikolopoulos, Daphne Tsevreni, and Andreas Fatouros—combined their expertise in technology, finance, and cultural heritage to address a significant gap in the travel industry: the lack of accessible, high-quality cultural content for modern travelers.

Acein Aueb

07 May 2025

In 2014, two engineers—Nikos Zinas and Panos Mitsios—met at the ACE incubator, attending the Compass Cycle to accelerate the development of their ventures.

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27 Apr 2025

In April 2025 we had the chance to visit the BrightonSEO conference, one of the world’s largest and most respected search marketing conferences, designed to help digital marketers enhance their skills and stay updated on industry trends.

We’ve put together key takeaways from the two-day conference, focusing on eCommerce SEO, brand...

Skroutz engineering

16 Apr 2025

Με τεράστια συμμετοχή πραγματοποιήθηκε η ημερίδα με τίτλο «Greek Startup Success Stories and the Inspiring Journeys of their Founders», που διοργανώθηκε από το νεοσυσταθέν Κέντρο Καινοτομίας και Επιχειρηματικότητας του Εθνικού Μετσόβιου Πολυτεχνείου την Τρίτη 8 […]

Μονάδα Καινοτομίας Και Επιχειρηματικότητας ΕΜΠ

15 Apr 2025

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

Welcome to The State of Progress, a blog that hosts only pragmatic and timeless articles on developing and managing software.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

Anyone who has ever contributed code in a collaborative software project, had hard time doing so at some point.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

Let’s get straight to the point; choose an SQL database for your web application. I think I can’t make my self clearer.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

In May 2017 I bought a couple of tickets for a Premier League game from a very popular ticket selling website. The tickets were not delivered in time, because I didn’t include my flat number in the delivery address, so I missed the game.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how things can go wrong when creating a user interface.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

It’s been lots of years since I found any new app and enjoyed using it.

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15 Apr 2025

Every so often, I see developers getting excited about something new that just came up. This can be anything from a new machine learning tool to a front-end framework, containers, lambdas etc.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

Yesterday I witnessed impolite behavior by an contributor. The issue started when they voluntarily opened up a Pull Request that we were skeptical about accepting.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

A fundamental skill in software development is realising when you have to relinquish control and actually doing it.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

I love the idea of the minimum viable product. Identifying what is absolutely necessary for launching a new viable product and building it timely with discipline within a tight timeframe is a virtue.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

There is this postmodern motivational advice that I seriously despise; “Surround yourself with people better than you”. What disgusts me more about it, is how it cultivates parasitic personalities and camouflaged egocentrism. Fuck that!

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

A whole lot of things happen at work these days — mostly good ones. As a result, I need to take more and more decisions day by day and the fear of can always creep in.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

A few weeks ago I ordered a cab through an app to get me back to my hotel from a visit at a friend's house in London. Two peculiar things happened at this moment. First, the driver pretended to pick me up and then completed the ride immediately, so they...

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

We are thrilled to announce that we are looking to hire a Web Developer at LOGIC. LOGIC is the company through which and are pursuing exciting projects.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

Getting distracted by the very same tools you use to do your job in your every day work is really new to our species. Our brain has been developed for hundreds of years with non-intrusive tools. The pen and paper on an architects office, would never pop up a notification...

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

For the last few years I take considerable vacation every August — 2 weeks minimum. It helps me relax, rejuvenate and think.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

A couple of months ago I ran into an issue with a car I rented, that quite much resembled a regular situation in software.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

This is a special day. We are extremely excited today to launch Vaulty, along with its first subscription offering “Vaulty Personal”. Vaulty is the easiest way to receive end-to-end encrypted sensitive information.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

nior Web Developer at LOGIC, the new company through which and are pursuing exciting projects.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

We are super excited today to announce ; an open source project we have been working on for a while in LOGIC. Django Prose makes it extremely easy to work with rich-text content in Django, our web framework of choice. Let’s take a deeper look into this.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

“It does not work, and I do not know why! Now it works and I still do not know why!”

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

Last month, we held our fourth company meet-up, where most of our small team got together and worked in person from our office for a whole week.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

I have already talked about the . To improve my focus, being quite of a systematic person, I try to recognise the indicators of the quality of my focus and the conditions, under which it flourishes or struggles.

State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

There is one thing I deeply love about the United States and always enjoy while being there. It is the extroversion of people. They talk about what they do in work and life in general, they celebrate it and also want to hear accordingly from you as well. It’s truly...

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15 Apr 2025

My sister and I have been working on a family software project for a while now. In this context, we employ a tool developed by one of our clients at , while also actively contributing to it. As my sister attempted to use it last Friday, suddenly a .

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