Greek youth boldly begin their startup odyssey
Athens
A TAXI-TRACKING tool, a head-hunting engine and a vertical gardening company: all business startups that have paradoxically emerged from a Greek economy long in the doldrums.
Faced with the worst unemployment wave in living memory, Greece's youth are turning away from the traditional pursuit of civil service or family-centred jobs, and towards innovation and foreign funding.
"If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere," muses Petros Boskos, a 35-year-old architect. Alongs…
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