Events

If you planning on going to an event – e.g. the two-day tech conference Startup Extreme taking place in Voss, Norway, from June 17 to 19 or the STHLM TECH Meetup in Stockholm June 23 – then prepare your self with these tips for event-goers presented by Laila Pawlak. Laila Pawlak is the founder of DARE2, including the professional playground DARE2mansion …

On the 26th of May the Nordic Startup Awards grand final took place in Helsinki, Finland. See the winners and get a more thorough impression of the entire initiative here. Before the final Kim Balle, CEO of Nordic Startup Awards said the following about the event: “We have received hundreds of nominations and more than 10,000 votes have been submitted. …

What happens when you bring together more than 1,000 tech entrepreneurs in the Opera and give them the stage? They make a pose and ask you to take them a picture and then share the success, the failure and the lessons learned from their startup experience. By Zlatina Tsvetkova Who has “complexity issues?” This is the question that the startup team …

Health Bootcamp is an idea accelerator program on the broad field of health and wellbeing organised by Helsinki Think Company and HealthSPA. Bookndo.com participated in the program and lets you in on the highlights in a blogpost. The Finnish startup Bookndo.com has developed a website that makes it is easy to find, compare, book and pay for sports activities. The following …

At TechBBQ the question “Is it possible to grow a global company from Denmark” was raised for a panel consisting of Peter Mühlman, founder of Trustpilot, Morten Lund founder of Skype, Simon Schmincke VC at Earlybird Venture Caital and Thomas Kragelund CEO of Pixels. During the day here at TechBBQ it has been ascertained several times that the Danish startup environment is thriving …

Living his life on what he calls ‘data based gut feelings’ Henrik Werdelin, founder and CEO of Prehype calls himself an OCD entrepreneur. Being a true believer that structure always defines the output, Henrik Werdelin started his presentation explaining how he coincidentally met his wife at a dinner with friends. First he studied various fields of personal psychology and dating theories, …

Unity is a game engine with an integrated development environment that is used by developers around the world to make games that work on multiple platforms, including computers, consoles, smartphones, smart TVs, virtual reality and augmented reality glasses. Unity engine is the dominant global game development software. More games are made with Unity than with any other game technology, as …

The tattoo site tattoodo.com is only two years old. Nonetheless, it already has over 10 million visitors a month and is constantly growing. By Torben Kloster “Why aren’t there actually any design portals for tattoos? Just like 99designs.com, but just for people who wants a tattoo?” Johan Plenge, co-founder and owner of Tattoodo.com, wondered as he was getting a tattoo a …

There are generally few women on the stages at entrepreneurial conferences, and this year TechBBQ line up has provoked many inquiries – and with good reason. But it should not lead to women being favoured simply because of their gender. As co-organiser of the entrepreneurial conference TechBBQ I am part of the group (of men), who originally initiated the non-profit …

By receiving data from about 5,000 apps operating worldwide, Priori Data is mapping the mobile app world. What is happening in the mobile app world? Is there a way to unravel the tangle around apps’ performances and revenues to visualize opportunities? Priori Data offers a solution that embraces the entire app economy. Before introducing the company, it might be helpful …

Planday has developed an online rostering system for all types of businesses that use a flexible workforce, such as restaurants, hotels, stores, call centers and gyms. Today the vast majority of small and medium-sized companies are handling their internal organisation, such as duty roster planning, with physical boards and homemade spreadsheets. It is time consuming, and even the smallest mistake …

To get business angel Klaus Nyengaard’s attention you need to mix the characteristics of being entrepreneurial with professionalism Entreprofessionals = a person who is mixing the best of entrepreneurship and professionalism. The Nordics lack experienced entrepreneurs. As one of the most active business angels in the Nordic countries, Klaus Nyengaard takes an active part in shaping the entrepreneurial tech environment. …

On Indiakaj in Copenhagen sits a small group of people rethinking entrepreneurship as we know it – they’re going to make an entrepreneurship formula. Identifying patterns and utilizing standardized processes The company factory Founders has used the first three years to identify the processes that are important for the success of a business. So far, Founders has co-founded five companies, …

Featuring over a 100 participants, the Gothenburg Startup Hack set sail on a ten hour journey of discovery and innovation designed to ignite the tech startup-community of Gothenburg, Step aboard to learn more about the events goals and motivations. By Vic Bassey Originally conceived by Andreas Rolén and Linus Olsson, students at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, the GbgtechWeek was spawned out from the …

One of Denmark’s most spectacular scenes provide the framework for TechBBQ 2015 – a festival for the country’s startup environment. By Torben Kloster The event frames investors, the national Nordic Startup Awards final, barbeque, big business, entrepreneurs and a lot of brave speakers on stage. Wednesday May 20 the Opera House in Copenhagen hosts TechBBQ 2015. With more than 30 speakers …

Nordic Startup Bits was there as STING Day was held for the sixth consecutive year. With 65 selected startups and more than 140 investors gathered we were in for a great and inspiring day. STING Day is held by the Stockholm based business incubator STING and took place in Stockholm last week. Photo credit stingsthlm The headline of the day was …

Becoming a successful game developer in Denmark is not easy. Yet Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning, the CEO of the Copenhagen game developing company BetaDwarf, has managed to stand out.   By Jesper K. Kristiansen  In 2011, Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning and his BetaDwarf cofounder, Kenneth Harder, were both medialogy students at Aalborg University, Ballerup dreaming of becoming game developers. There was only …

Yesterday the Icelandic startup community got together at Reykjavik University, courtesy of Klak Innovit, Nyherji, and Stjornvisi, to find out who were the Icelandic winners Nordic Startup Awards 2015. (photo credit: Haraldur Gudjonsson) “We are proud to connect with the nordic startup scene and other community leaders through the Nordic Startup Awards. It’s a great platform to bring attention to …

Danish Drinkster won the ‘Student Startup Award’ at Nordic Startup Awards 2012 You can now take part in deciding who should be praised at the Nordic startup scene. The voting for Nordic Startup Awards 2015 is now open. Among other things you can vote for ‘Startup of the Year’, ‘Founder of the Year’ and ‘Best Office Space’. A few honourable …

Mobile Heights Business Center invites you to a two-day community meetup in Lund,on the 23rd and 24th April. Mobile Heights Business Center, MHBC, is a Swedish business accelerator whom created Nordic Connected Health Star Track, seeking to enhance the success and international scaling of Nordic health startups and so to enable them to compete in the global marketplace. The first day …