July, 2015

• 21 July

  One hashtag to rule them all!

  

  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 …

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• 13 July

  Click Flic for some smart device action

  

  Flic is a wireless shortcut button that allows you to perform smart actions on your phone with a simple click. Flic is a Swedish startup that is making life even more simple for smart phone users. With a simple click of a Flic button, users have access to a variety of different functions. These include controlling lights, playing music, taking …

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• 9 July

  Crypho makes confidential and encrypted communications available to everyone, everywhere

  

  Crypho is a privately-held Norwegian company that builds encrypted real-time communications solutions for the web. I have heard several times the words security, hacker, internet not safe anymore, unsafe data transfer, virus and antivirus, unknown IP, etc, etc. and etc. again. And when I was beginning to feel a bit uncomfortable,  Crypho and the name Geir Bækholt came to me. …

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• 1 July

  With greater ambitions come greater challenges. Learn how Xeneta deals with them

  

  When a new venture shakes up the way an entire global market does business, the question arises: They have proven that things can be done differently so what are they going to do about it? The Norwegian startup Xeneta has a vision for the future of the global freight trade market, and there are a few challenges they need to …

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June, 2015

• 28 June

  Garage Technology Ventures and Nordic Partners Launch “Silicon Valley Catalyst”

  

  Garage Technology Ventures, Norway’s StartupLab, and Silicon Valley-based MAD-Partners announced earlier this month the launch of Silicon Valley Catalyst, a new joint venture to fund and grow brilliant emerging European technology companies that are ready to launch in the U.S. The collaboration brings together a team of experienced Silicon Valley and Nordic venture players to provide investment capital and intensive …

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• 26 June

  STHLM Tech Meetup: Startup scene is flourishing!

  

  Jam-packed STHLM Tech Meetup with Atomico event brought Ngenic, MedUniverse, and Shipwallet on the stage. Who had the best pitch this Tuesday? NSB was there to find out Yet another STHLM Tech Meetup is behind us. If anything, the event, which has been going on for over two years, is getting more and more popular, with sold out tickets for …

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• 24 June

  #7 Nordic Co-working Spaces: Bricks

  

  There are two things that are universally true for entrepreneurs – they need to market their products and they are extremely busy and stressed out! Now there is a co-working space that supports them in dealing with both of these challenges by providing them with tranquility and the opportunity to learn and grow their business through clever, high-end marketing hacks. …

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• 23 June

  Falcon Social is making social media management look easy

  

  Falcon Social offer a unified software as a service(SaaS) platform for social media engaging, publishing, listening, measuring, and management. Their goal is to help their clients explore the full potential of social media marketing, and instill the right social media thinking in their employees. Their social media management tool unifies organically developed products on a single platform, and makes it …

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• 22 June

  STHLM Tech Meetup with Atomico

  

  Nordic Startup Bits will attend the STHLM Tech Meetup this week, and the doors for the event open up tomorrow, June 23 at 17:30 in Hilton Stockholm Slussen Hotel. One of the most important investors in the tech industry, Atomico, will be on stage, while three of the Stockholm’s hottest startups try to pitch them. If anyone’s wondering why Atomico …

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• 22 June

  How to strategize your business process

  

  Nordic angel investor Hampus Jakobsson presents some clear go-to advice for how to strategize your business process. The advice was originally posted as an answer to the question: “This is my first startup company and I read conflicting ways of strategizing the business process online. Can someone help provide clarity in what I should be doing?” Find the original here. I think you should …

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