September, 2015

• 25 September

  A Visit to StartupLab in Oslo

  

  StartupLab Oslo is home to Norway’s – and the world’s – next big innovations. It’s my first visit to Norway and on day one I already felt at home. Had my ancestors made different life choices over a thousand years ago I would probably be happily living in Oslo today. It feels like a larger and more diverse version of …

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• 25 September

  Europe’s unique opportunity to capitalise on the crowd economy: 4 considerations

  

  The crowd economy (aka sharing, gig or collaborative economy) which is seeing both global adoption and resentment, is a new crop of innovative business ideas that connects people through digital platforms and of course, billion-dollar company evaluations. The disruptive models that have emerged have shaken up laws, policies and rendered older systems obsolete. It is remarkably impressive that an emergent model is making a …

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• 24 September

  Sleepless nights, downs and ups, but 130.000 downloads in Denmark

  

  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 …

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• 24 September

  Zalando’s adventure in Helsinki continues

  

  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 …

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• 23 September

  Belightful’s patented nectar capsule brings butterflies to your backyard

  

  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 …

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• 23 September

  Shipment has never been easier – Webshipr is here

  

  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, …

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• 23 September

  How-to: Building Great Products

  

  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 …

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• 22 September

  10 Mistakes You Will Make as a First Time Entrepreneur

  

  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 …

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• 22 September

  Ready to fight for the angels attention?

  

  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 …

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• 21 September

  3 Things I wish I’d Known 15 years ago from Supercell Co-founder

  

  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 …

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