The Slush pitching competition: one of the highest stakes startup competitions in the world. Three minutes to explain who you are, what you do, how you will make money and how you will grow your business. In addition you must stick out from the crowd and seduce a panel of spoiled venture capitalists.  No matter how experienced you are, the …

One of the main themes at NEXT15 , the two-day tech conference that occurred concurrently with Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, was mobility. The conference attempted to answer the question “How will we move?” with all the opportunities and challenges that it implies. But zooming out and looking at the question in the context of the entire conference – with discussions …

While sailing on the west coast of Sweden, Meshcrafts founder Åsmund Møll Frengstad of Norway  found himself bothered by the inequalities in energy consumption between himself and a fellow boater. First, while the other boater had a giant boat compared to his, both had to pay the same daily fee to charge their boats.  In actuality, Åsmund may have consumed …