
Can Bulgaria Become Southeast Europe’s Sand Hill Road?
Bulgaria, 2010. You have a good business idea and need funding to develop it. Unfortunately, you don’t have many options: you can either mortgage the family home or borrow from
Bulgaria, 2010. You have a good business idea and need funding to develop it. Unfortunately, you don’t have many options: you can either mortgage the family home or borrow from
Genoveva Christova is in the business of proving things. Proving that a girl can go far in sports. That she can remake herself when her original plan does not bear
At a tech event in San Francisco last fall, Pavlina Yanakieva met 91-year-old Pitch Johnson, one of the legendary first investors in Silicon Valley. He helped found some of the
Like one of Bulgaria’s most famous literary characters, Bogomil Balkansky bears the name of a mountain and has a reputation that precedes him. To the Bulgarian community in Silicon Valley
Thirty-eight years ago, under cover of darkness, Anthony Christov smuggled himself out of Bulgaria to embark on the greatest adventure of his life. The adventure would take him through a
By Petia Nikolova, Space Challenges Junior We are what inspires us, and we are usually inspired by people we meet in life. My name is Petia, and I work at
Magdalena Racheva thinks children today get too much screen time and don’t talk to each other enough. Her dream is to start a summer camp for children—she calls it the
The demands of corporate employment and a commuter’s life in a large US metropolitan area for over a decade gave Mariya Tsacheva’s family a craving for the peace and quiet
Being an only child taught Rositsa Tropcheva to be resourceful. She made up her own entertainment. She learned to solve problems creatively. When she was seven, her dad taught her
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