The Hells of Being a Founder
Hampus Jakobsson, entrepreneur and angel investor, made a blog post about being a founder of a startup. He also gives a few hacks to everyone to be able to jump over a some of the black holes. “Being a founder is horrible. There, I said it. We are supposed to be visionaries and rebels, while being pragmatic and […]
What should you attend at Almedalen 2017?
Sunday, 2th of July is the first day of Almedalen 2017. It is Sweden’s largest political meeting place and is every year hosted in Visby at Gotland. Every day until Sunday 9th of July, hundreds of seminars and workshops will be held in the city of Visby. We made a list of some of the […]
Danish Planday partners up with METRO GROUP
The employee scheduling and workforce management solution provider Planday partners with The METRO GROUP, Wholesale & Food Specialist Company (W&FS Co.) which is a leading international player in wholesale and foodservice distribution. In 2014, Planday received investment from Creandum, and in 2015, they received another investment from former global Just-Eat CEO, Klaus Nyengaard. In 2016, […]
The new CEO for Minc in Malmö has been presented
Breakit break the news who will be the new CEO of the startup house Minc in Malmö. It is Charlotta Alegria Ursing who will take over the CEO chair. Charlotta Alegria Ursing is currently responsible for Innovation Skåne’s business consultancy and has in recent years been working to create new startups after Sony Mobiles cuts in the region. For the […]
Danish Opbeat acquired by Elastic
Opbeat and Elastic released a joint blog post about the acquisition. The 15 employees at Opbeat already joined forces with the Elastic team. “We’ve been happy users of the Elastic Stack for monitoring our infrastructure metrics and logs, and are excited about being a part of the team that extends the Elastic Stack to application-level […]
Startups meets politicians on Bornholm – an interview with Martin Ferro-Thomsen
Last week was Folkemødet, the “Davos of Denmark”, at Bornholm. A gathering of politicians and people who are wanting to improve society. This includes key people from the startup scene. We had an interview with Martin Ferro-Thomsen, who as a veteran entrepreneur from the startup scene has seen it grow during the last decade. Martins […]
Queue-it expands to the US and hires new VP
The technology company Queue-it is expanding fast. They recently revealed that they will open a new office in the US, and they also employed Dagrofa’s former IT Operations Manager, Michael Rasmussen, as the new Vice President of Technical Engagement. Queue-it opens the US office in June, where the start-up phase focuses on hiring talent in technical […]
Second edition of Camp Ven is open for registrations
Within the start up community we can argue that unconferences are the “new black”. The second edition of the unconference Camp Ven will take place 16th – 18th of August. The aim with this unconference is to build interesting, fulfilling personal and professional relationships between people within the Startup community. Together they strive to create […]
Fragments from Start up Live!
Didn´t have time to attend the stage show at “Start up Live!”, or couldn’t go at all? Don´t worry, we gathered some quotes and wisdom we learned during the night. Start up Live! is organised by Malmö Startups and is the biggest start up event in southern of Sweden with over 800 people attending. Overall the […]
Mad Lady´s pop up shop became a success
The fashion e-commerce company Mad Lady opened up a physical shop at Emporia in Malmö 3-4 of June. “It was a bit crazy! We hadn´t organised the pop-up shop for long. It was a spontanious thing we got together in a few weeks. But we got really good feedback”, says Madelene Fisch to E-handel.se. Already when […]