February, 2015

• 25 February

  Closr – a personal relationship management tool

  

  The app Closr is started by the two Swedish entrepreneurs Alex Lewerentz and Peter Eriksson. They started the app Closr because they had so many contacts spread over the phone book and other social networks, but still they had no place to save important information to help them remember stuff that they wanted to pick up on the next time …

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• 25 February

  Get smart home-cooked meal suggestions with Phoodster!

  

  Swedish Phoodster has created an app that generates mouth-watering meal suggestions incorporating items currently on sale at your local stores. An Idea Born from an everyday problem Most of us have a hard time deciding what to cook, especially if you are trying a new diet or are looking for something special. We are bombarded with promotions as soon as …

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• 25 February

  From Idea to Prototype in Minutes With Weld.io

  

  Swedish Weld is building a browser-based prototyping tool for websites and apps, with the goal of simplifying prototyping and development for everybody.   Prototyping made easy Weld is a fast and responsive UX (User experience) prototyping tool for websites and apps, which makes it simple for non-programmers to create responsive web and app prototypes, which scale and adapt beautifully to …

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• 24 February

  When you run out of money

  

  The following article is based on a blogpost by Thor Fridriksson, founder of the football app Champion. He shares his honest experiences with running out money for your startup, without a way for getting further funding. Thor Fridriksson developed the football app, Pumodo, in cooperation with Thomas Watson back in 2012. The product had a great start with good feedback …

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• 24 February

  Startup Travels teams up with Workaway Camp

  

  Startup Travels and Workaway Camp are partnering up this May to help connect entrepreneurs around the world in sunny Barcelona. Workaway Camps provides entrepreneurs with a more unorthodox working environment. The two types of camps on offer include ‘adventure camps’ whereby Workaway organizes trips to ‘explore parts of the world,’ climbing mountains and the likes, and remote luxury hotel getaways …

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• 23 February

  #5 Nordic Co-working Spaces: D82

  

  D82 is one of the latest additions to Sweden’s rising range of co-working spaces. The office is placed in the center of Stockholm in a newly renovated building. In D82 startups are secured office space, meeting rooms, space for relaxation and networking, and of course, what all hard working entrepreneurs need: good coffee! D82 already holds many of Sweden’s most …

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• 23 February

  New startup wants to put an end to expensive wills

  

  “Nine out of ten Danes do not have a will. This is despite the fact that they are well aware of the difficult situation they put the people they leave behind in.” Says Jørgen Koch, Co-founder of a new online initiative, SikkerArv.dk. If you ask Danes, it is the lawyer’s high hourly rate, which is the cause behind the low …

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• 20 February

  Martin LeBlanc from Iconfinder: Never expect to be in control

  

  This article is a part of our content-partner program and is made in collaboration with DI ITEK. DI ITEK is an organization that aims to give Danish businesses the best conditions possible to develop, among other things by offering consultancy concerning staff, international service, productivity and competence development. DI ITEK is part ofthe European campaign, Watify, which aims to support digital …

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• 20 February

  Sweden’s first e-commerce park – the place for future e-commerce to evolve

  

  Monday the 19th of January E-commerce Park of Sweden was inaugurated in a large 4.000 square meter building localised in Helsingborg. Here small and medium-sized e-commerce companies can now acquire office space in direct continuation of Sweden’s second largest container dock. We know the concept from the startup environment where entrepreneurs work under the same roof in order to make …

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• 20 February

  #2 Nordic Co-working Spaces: SUP46

  

  SUP46, Start-Up People of Sweden, is a co-working & meeting space located in the heart of Stockholm, with the goal of making Stockholm the #1 startup city in the world. This is the second article in our series about Nordic co-working spaces. You can read the first article about Danish Startup City here! Stockholm is home to a large number …

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