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 …

The Danish final took place at TechBBQ in the Opera House in Copenhagen this Wednesday. By Torben Kloster The award winners in the Danish Nordic Startup Awards final were: Startup Journalist of the Year: Neil Murray, The Nordic Web The prize for Startup Journalist of the Year went to a communicator who has great influence and is very important for the startup ecosystem. …

4Alle Denmark is an organization that links consumers, businesses and non-governmental organizations. Their innovative and novel platform has the potential to make impact on current corporate social responsibilities (CSR) strategies and set a new trend in charitable giving for consumers. 4Alle Denmark is a non-for-profit organization founded in 2015 by Toni Prodan and Adrian Holm. The two friends met during their studies …

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 …

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 …

Rainmaking Kids is asking the question: “Why not empower our children to aspire to become job creators rather than job seekers?” Today Rainmaking Kids took place at the coworking space Rainmaking Loft in Copenhagen with first and second grade schoolchildren from Frederiksberg Ny Skole. By organising workshops about entrepreneurship, like the one today, Rainmaking Kids wants to familiarize children with …

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, …