Mike Hearn, one of the core developers of Bitcoin , recently wrote a Medium post in which he publicly announced that he will no longer be taking part in Bitcoin development and that “the bitcoin experiment has failed.”…
Everyone has experienced a weather forecast that does not quite hold true and ruins everything from picnics to camping trips. The anemometer developed by the Danish startup Vaavud has set out to solve this problem. Vaavud is a…
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…
Crowdfunding is fun and exciting, but it also requires hard work and a bold attitude to go the extra mile. It cannot be overemphasized how important it is always to try new things, fail quickly, and learn from…
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,…
This past weekend Brussels hosted the first ever Hackathon dedicated to Virtual Reality (VR) in Europe, where close to 100 participants took over the co-working space Co.station to hack the next generation of VR technologies. The event was…
John loves his Friday nights out with his friends. Last Friday, he went out to with his friends to the pub, had a good time, and picked up the tab for the table at the end of the…
A tech-savvy Norwegian school is giving its students the option to play competitive video games, all in the name of education. Playing video games might not sound like something that children should be doing at school, but today…
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…
The VR Hackathon in Brussel s kicked off last night, bringing with it the promise of a new world of VR in 2016 and a healthy dose of viking tech-savvy – 20% of the participants came from the…