22. January 2005.
Internet and mobile phone usage per capita, is higher in Estonia than it is in France. Over half of all Estonians now pay for their street parking spaces automatically, using their mobile phones. Kazaa and Skype are programmed here. Steve Jurvetson of Silicon Valley VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson first did business in Estonia after falling in love with Kazaa. His firm negotiated the deal in December 2003 that made Draper Fisher the largest investor in Skype, and Jurvetson stuck around when he saw Tallinn's entrepreneurial beehive.