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The world’s first smoothie vending machine company sees phenomenal response on crowd funding platform. In 2007, when cancer researcher Astrid Friborg attended a lecture on entrepreneurship for a course that she took in parallel with her doctoral research, she was struck by a brainwave. A juice bar had won a competition, and she wondered if she could do something with …

With his background in developing SMS services, Daniel Döderlein was annoyed by the fact that money could not change hands as easily and quickly as sending a text message. Döderlein decided to figure out why. The idea of sending and receiving money instantly using your mobile phone came to Döderlein in the summer of 2006, about a year prior to …

I’m standing in the foyer of the Innovation House in Gloucester, MA. In the kitchen to my left people are cleaning up after lunch and starting preparations for an afternoon garden party hosted by Vivaldi later that day. Located in a beautiful 18th century mansion north of Boston, the Innovation House is locally known as the White House of Magnolia. Hosting visitors …

Have you ever looked up something on Wikipedia and 40 minutes and 3354 clicks later you end up reading about the mating rituals of narwhals wandering where did it all begin? Imagine now that you want to explore something and there is a platform that will take you on a similar journey across social media sites, blogs, videos, images and …

The outdoor adventure app TurApp wants to be the number one of its kind in the world. The Norwegian startup has had an amazing start, and is just about to expand to new countries and introduce their new improved 2.0 version of the app. By Cristian Morales and Christina Klavsen TurApp is a digital tool that puts outdoor regions and national parks …

Serial entrepreneur, investor and Managing Partner at Prehype, Henrik Werdelin believes that making the same mistakes as others have is a waste of time. Therefore, he is passing on some of his best learnings here in this article. “It suddenly hit me; I had been working for 15 years and according to the data I will live to be 100. …

Swedish startup, Pricelizer is all about creating a great online shopping environment for their customers. The what and the how  is what they believe sets them apart from the competition.   Bought an item online? Then you’ve likely encountered instances when you have failed to follow through with a purchase. This could be down to a variety of reasons. What Pricelizer is aiming …

At TechBBQ on May 20th 2015 The Nordic Web had a chance to talk two of the most prominent and successful Danish entrepreneurs; Esben Østergaard founder of Universal Robots and Peter Mühlmann founder of Trustpilot. In addition they also talked to some venture capitalists regarding the Nordic startup ecosystem. Get some unique insights by listening to the podcast in the end of …

Nicolai Sederberg Rottbøll is a Danish entrepreneur who used his industry experience and expertise in cluster development to form a unique consulting company called the Quercus Group. I was lucky to get to chat with him over coffee to discuss the exciting world of cluster development and his experiences starting his company. What was your background before you became an entrepreneur? …

Authenteq is a identity verification and reputation management platform that helps online marketplaces increase transparency and trust by issuing Authenteq IDs to their users to verify that they are who they say they are. By Thorunn Jonsdottir Started as Verificy in March 2014, the team soon decided to change the name to Authenteq as most people pronounced Verificy as “Very …

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 …

The Swedish media, Breakit, have interviewed Daniel Ek, Founder of Spotify, about why he is not worried about Spotify’s losses, the future of the pharmaceutical industry, what he thinks about the lack of women in startup companies and the lack of housing opportunities in Stockholm. It has been a few years since Daniel Ek lined up for a longer interview with the …

For about a year ago a business partner lured the Spanish price-comparison platform ValorTop to Denmark. Although the company targets the Spanish market, and the founders come from the Netherlands, Spain and Japan, they now  form a Danish startup. ValorTop is a price-comparison platform targeting the 322 million Spanish-speaking people worldwide. They specialize in helping users find and buy technology …