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  • 14
    May

    My JA Story: Improving the lives of visually impaired people

    Tudor Popa, Inventor of the Mitra Glasses

    "Innovation is one of the most important aspects of today’s industry. Even if this may sounds hard to achieve, you just need to analyze the real needs and problems of the society and see what can be improved. I advise all the other businesses to show how they improve the world as we know it by innovation and why their business is going to still be valuable in the future".

  • 08
    Feb

    More women like tech

    Åsa Arvidsson, CEO of Avanade Sweden

    Working in the IT industry, or the tech industry, as it is also called, does not have to be as technical as it sounds. As in many other areas people with a great understanding of other people's needs are needed also in the tech industry. This is what Åsa Arvidsson, CEO of Avanade Sweden says.

  • 07
    Jun

    My JA Story: The best thing about JA is that you learn by experience

    Joonas Ahola, Founder and CEO of MeetingPackage.com

    “At secondary school, we started a JA Company called Digitime. At that time, the analog signal for television had ended in Finland, so you had to either buy a set-top box to watch TV or buy a new TV. We had the idea to import set-top boxes from Germany to Finland at the age of 14-15. We made some profit that we used to have a better graduation party. We could even rent a Limousine…. 

  • 03
    Jun

    My JA Story: 18-year-old JA student created an app that gives film subtitles a sound

    Alexander Gram Jensen, Co-Founder & Partner of SubReader

    “I’m in my last year of secondary school studying math and technology as main topics. Besides school I’m still working on the company “SubReader” that we licensed last year after we won the JA Europe Company of the Year Competition.

    We developed an app that helps dyslexic people by reading subtitles on international TV and movies aloud. When we heard about the JA Company Programme with my friend Anders, we thought that it was a great opportunity to start our own project because we could develop it in school as well.

  • 18
    Jan

    My JA Story: Karoli Hindriks

    Karoli Hindriks, Founder and CEO, Jobbatical

    I was born in the Soviet Union and was an average student at an average school—not exactly set up for success. My home town of Pärnu was tiny, with 40,000 inhabitants—a village by most of the world’s standards. At sixteen I was given a school assignment to create a student company with my classmates. It was part of the Junior Achievement Young Enterprise economical study program that my school had joined.

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