Nordic Startup News Early Stage Startup News From The Nordics
For the last few years, the Nordics have tried to gain a foothold at SXSW, the unparalleled tech festival that collectively brings over $300 million to the city of Austin, Texas, every March. Every year, over 80,000 registrants stream into the conference, trade shows, and festivals. Past keynote speakers have included President Barack Obama, and this year saw Joe Biden, …
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April, 2017
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18 April
How to name your Nordic startup
Nordic countries have been heralded as the next Silicon Valley – and the numbers don’t lie. The investments in Danish start-ups doubled from 2014 to 2015, while Finland’s start-up gaming industry alone had a turnover of almost $2 billion USD in 2014. Clearly, the start-up scene is booming in the Scandinavian region. By Grant Polachek However, if you’re starting a …
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11 April
BlockShow Europe 2017: The First Blockchain Oscar to be Held This Spring
Blockchain Oscar is a Startup Competition, which will be held in two rounds. The first one took place online for three days on March 2-4. These exact startups will join the the second and final round of the competition, which is to be held on the Main Stage of BlockShow Europe 2017 on April, 6. During this part of Blockchain …
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4 April
In photos: Making deals the Finnish way in the SaunaBus
In Finland, the sauna is a way of life. It is not just a place to ease muscle pain after a hard workout, but a place for relaxing, drinking, and even doing business. That’s why as part of the #nordicmade trip to South By Southwest Interactive, the annual tech festival in Austin, Texas, leading sauna heater manufacturer HARVIA brought a …
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3 April
For freelancers, Sweden is one of the best countries in the world
Being in a digitally connected economy is vital to being someone who works from home as an entrepreneur, a freelancer, or even as a remote worker. As the home of Spotify and Minecraft, Stockholm is one of the world’s top tech cities and proving that person for person, Scandinavia as a whole is one of the best regions for start-ups …
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March, 2017
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24 March
Bitcoin in Scandinavia: a history
Bitcoin, the world’s leading cryptocurrency, has certainly entered 2017 flying — the price is 1245 USD on March 14th (according to CEX.IO exchange). The price of the revolutionary digital payment method has already exceeded its all-time record value. Driven by Japan’s apparent warming to the currency, a pending decision over the approval of a BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF), and a …
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20 March
Startup Iceland focuses on health and wellness for 2017
It is that time of the year again, we are starting the preparation for Startup Iceland 2017. The theme for this year is Personal Data, Health, Wellness and Technology. I want to bring emphasis to the health, wellness and fitness of the founders, my tribe. I have written about why I believe this is important for founders. I also feel …
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20 March
Rising North promises €550,000 to help Nordic startups in 2017
Rising North is a fund that aims to help Nordic startups become global leaders. The fund was launched in October 2016 with a NASDAQ bell ringing as part of the #nordicmade trip to New York. In her keynote speech at the fund’s launch, Helga Valfells, CEO of NSA Ventures, Iceland, and Steering Board Member at Rising North, said: “In the Nordics …
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9 March
A Modern Era of the Outsourced Workforce – The Rise of the Nordic Freelancer
With the unemployment rates as low as they are, it’s obvious that the traditional workforce approach is still favored in the Nordic regions. That being said, the evolution that is allowing up to a third of Americans to work from a remote site is fast becoming the new norm across the globe. By Jenny Holt The rise of the freelancer is not …
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9 March
Why women in tech are tempted to leave Silicon Valley for Norway
As Norway tops quality of life and gender equality indexes consistently, it is no surprise that more and more women are looking to leave Silicon Valley – and the bro-culture that dominates the valley- behind for beautiful fjords and generous paternal leave. We interview 4 women who took the plunge and embraced the Nordic lifestyle. “I have been here three …
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