Today’s article is about WeLovestartups board of directors, concerns our media-guru and communication expert, Nicolai Danmark Johannesen, founder of Singleplus.dk and Reshopper. What are your biggest entrepreneurial successes? Creating a team. One of the most important things I have discovered through my entrepreneurial career, is the importance of hooking up with the right co-founders to ensure success. I have started …

Almost a month ago, one of Europe’s largest online fashion retailers, Zalando SE, opened their new Tech Hub in Helsinki. At Nordic Startup Bits, we have asked them how the adventure is going so far. On August 27th, Zalando proudly announced that they expanded their European Tech operations to Helsinki.  Nordic Startup Bits caught up with them a month later …

Miia Liesegang and Taina Tallala are the architects behind the direction of a new Finnish startup which wants to make gardening more enjoyable and bring a real product to customers. With backgrounds in marketing and design, and a foothold in the entrepreneurial world for some time, they decided to team up to create Belightful, a startup aimed at producing butterfly …

Sending a package can be a difficult task, especially for webshops. Two entrepreneurs from Aarhus have developed a new, easy, and time saving way to do shipments. Webshops must deal with the daily process of labelling and tracking their orders – and slip-ups can mean unhappy customers and missed sales. Now, two entrepreneurs from Aarhus, Thomas Andersen and Mathias Salomonsson, …

Discover how to start your own startup and build great products in this How to Start a Startup lecture by Bala Kamallakharan, an investor, entrepreneur, speaker, and Startup Coach from Iceland. This article was originally posted on Startup Iceland. In today’s How to Start a Startup lecture, we will be talking about Building Great Products. There are several methodologies on …

Creating your first startup might seem easy – I have an idea, I will hire a ‘techie’, find investors and voila. ‘Wantrepreneurship’ is fun until you step into the world of entrepreneurship within the real startup scene. It might seem luxurious and easy from the outside, but once you plunge into it you will realise how many challenges it takes …

The Norwegian Startup scene is buzzing like never before. And just this spring Norway, for the first time, had more to celebrate than our neighbours at the Nordic Startup Awards. This article was originally posted on Angelchallenge.co A feat unimaginable just a year ago – and leaving some of the worlds best Startup ecosystems, i.e. Sweden and Finland, in the …

Supercell co-founder and CEO Ilkka Paananen outlined some of his his key learnings in a speech at FallUp conference to 1,600 students in Helsinki on Sept 15. This article was originally posted on Hybe. 1) Before you start, spend time thinking about WHY you’re starting.  I hope the answer is not for the money, as it’s very likely you won’t …

Online laundry and dry-cleaning service Washa get investment to scale big. Christian Stadil, Tommy Ahlers and Jesper Buch invested 1,5 million crowns (over 200,000 euro) in Danish startup Washa, an online laundry and dry-cleaning service that picks up your clothes and drops them off clean at your address within 48 hours. The investment took place in connection with the Danish …

A new app is ready to conquer Aarhus. With YourLocal you get the opportunity to buy products to reduced prices, if you can do it with short notice. The reason for this app is that there is way too much food, which gets thrown into the trash. YourLocal can be mistaken for a deal site, but it isn’t. The significant …

The 10th Reeperbahn Festival is almost here, and will be bringing a new focus on tech and innovation alongside Europe’s hottest musical acts. Music, start ups, and technology: quite popular words nowadays.  We all listen to music – while commuting, while relaxing, or sometimes at live performances.  This week in Hamburg, you can explore not just music, but the technology …

When living in an apartment block, doing your laundry can be very frustrating, time-wasting activity. Now, three female entrepreneurs have developed an application,Book N Wash, which makes the entire booking process easier. People who live in an apartment block knows how frustrating it is to walk down to the laundry room with all your laundry, only to find there is …

Universal Avenue, a network of freelance Brand Ambassadors, has announced a new 5 million dollar funding round led by Northzone or Salesforce Ventures. Universal Avenue, a mixture of personal network marketing and sales, gives brands access to a global on-demand sales force. The new Swedish platform allows users, or Brand Ambassadors, to act as local sales representatives on a freelance basis- …

Fall has arrived and Slush 2015 is approaching with over 500 startups already registered to the event. As well as promising newcomers, several young ventures are back after attending Slush in previous years. Next up are fours startups that are making their return to Slush during November 11-12th. Meet Game Analytics, Gizlo, Plumbr and Usetrace — four startups that deserve a …

Welcome to the second chapter in the story of Danish company Planday and their attempt to gain a foothold in the United States – a true adventure,  controlled with a heavy hand by Danish-owned Lemonsqueeze, whose specialty is helping European companies to gain traction and scale their business in the US market. Last week, the company underwent an onboarding process …