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Ukraine, on the edge of something and somewhere
01/11/2017
I am standing inside the exhibitor room of (what claims to be) Eastern
Europe's largest startup event, [IT
Arena](https://itarena.ua/){.markup--anchor .markup--p-anchor
data-href="https://itarena.ua/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"} in Lviv,
Ukraine. All around me are booths of companies looking for developers to
join them, many servicing overseas clients. Upstairs are a handful of
scrappy local entrepreneurs explaining their ideas, generally, they are
well executed, but early stage. IT Arena has great talks happenin...