May, 2015

• 26 May

  Interview with Nicolai Rottbøll: Talking cluster development and entrepreneurs

  

  Nicolai Sederberg Rottbøll is a Danish entrepreneur who used his industry experience and expertise in cluster development to form a unique consulting company called the Quercus Group. I was lucky to get to chat with him over coffee to discuss the exciting world of cluster development and his experiences starting his company. What was your background before you became an entrepreneur? …

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• 26 May

  Sleeping with your clients, daring to jump, conquering Viking style and more stories from TechBBQ

  

  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 …

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• 24 May

  Bookndo at Health Bootcamp 2015

  

  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 …

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• 22 May

  The Danish winners of Nordic Startup Awards

  

  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. …

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• 22 May

  4Alle Denmark makes it easy to donate to charity

  

  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 …

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• 21 May

  Authenteq: Privacy Without Anonymity

  

  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 …

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• 20 May

  TechBBQ asks: Is it possible to grow global from Denmark?

  

  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 …

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• 20 May

  Henrik Werdelin on the entrepreneurial life

  

  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, …

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• 19 May

  The story of Unity Technologies – a talk with David Helgason

  

  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 …

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• 19 May

  Rainmaking Kids – it’s never too early to learn about entrepreneurship

  

  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 …

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