Born out of frustration with unreliable, insecure video calling services, Finnish startup Zyptonite believes it has found a better way, by harnessing the power of p2p technology. Keeping touch with family and friends abroad has never been easier.…
The learning curve is steep, but exciting, for 6 Danish founders participating in a US Entry Bootcamp , at Lemonsqueeze in Brooklyn, aimed at ”preparing for a successful launch in the US.” Where Silicon Valley is focused on…
Did you know that the greatest crowdsourcing story ever told was from the mining industry? And that NASA is crowdsourcing Jupiter? Read on to find out the possibilities of crowdsourcing to accelerate innumerable processes. Crowdsourcing a gold mine…
Getting a high valuation for your startup is not the measure of success many founders believe it to be. Below, the different elements behind getting a good valuation are deconstructed. Books and lawyers can help entrepreneurs learn the…
Denmark has just been named the best place to start a business Europe. However, funnily enough the startup environment here is quite disconnected from the rest of Europe. Danish companies tend to expand either to other Nordic countries…
Recruitment is forever ‘hot topic’ for startups. On the one hand, they need wildly talented employees, and on the other, they cannot offer high salaries. Available funds must be used wisely. The good news is, there are great…
I am an organizer for Women in Technology International ( WITI ) in Sweden, a networking and support group for women working in all sectors of technology. Recently , while hosting a lunch for WITISweden it suddenly struck…
Sean Percival , serial entrepreneur and investor, has been in Norway for his project 500 Startups . Through a $15 million Nordic fund, growth marketing programs, and an accelerator , 500 plans to bring Silicon Valley’s best practices…
Bloomberg has released their annual ranking countries based on their ability to innovate in six equally weighted metrics, and all of the Nordics placed in the top 30. Sweden ranked highest in 3rd place, with Finland and Denmark…
If you’re following the Nordic startup ecosystem, then you’ll have heard of Startup Sauna , one of the regions top accelerator s for promising early startups. But if you want to be one of the lucky chosen startups,…
STARTnordic, is organizing a cross-country collaboration for the greater good. The project aims to create a framework that will better enable potential high growth companies to reach unicorn levels of success, and consolidating the small Nordic countries into…
A Nordic Web Report on Icelandic tech and startup investment s in 2015 shows a staggering 1,568% growth in year-on-year funding from 2014 to 2015. Number of investments rose from seven to seventeen. This massive growth in funding…