Location Day – defying storms, interesting talks and a digital “på spåret”
Location Day, an event that was, somewhat spontaneously, organized by Petter Palander (co-founder of PinMeToo), got a great responses and lots of interest when announced in November. Unfortunately, the weather was not on Petters side, and due to the Sven / Bodil storm the schedule had to be redrawn at the last minute. Fortunalty, enough […]
Startupbootcamp Mobility Investor Demo Day
With H.R.H. the Crown Princess of Denmark being at the Investor Demo Day and the event itself being held in the City Hall, says something about how important the work of Startupbootcamp Mobility is for this region. Startupbootcamp was launched in Copenhagen in 2010 as an alternative to US accelerators, and in just 3 years […]
Chander Chawla’s 7 key points on tribal knowledge for aspiring entrepreneurs
It was in fall that Chander Chawla has visited Sweden to attend Innovation in Mind Conference. Now, a few months later, he is back to Lund again, to explore and share more about innovation and startups. Chander has worked in every area of the mobile ecosystem and is a renowned multi-disciplinary, cross-functional, predictive thinker. His […]
Music Hack Weekend highlights and pitches
This weekend the Malmö Music Hack Weekend was hosted by Maisa Dabus at Minc together with Alex Esser from the startup Tunaspot. The hackathon, with it’s music focus, was an interesting twist and created some great ideas. The team got big names from the music + tech scene together, and both Spotify, SoundCloud, Neo4j and […]
Startup Grind CPH with Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
Today Startup Grind Copenhagen was held for the first time. The event, with an intimate 45 participants, had a up-close-and-personal feel to it. This might have been aided buy being held at Northcap‘s facilities, which are nice and great, but probably not used to having so many people in them. But that only raised the […]
Øresund Startups: Top50 and state of the region
Today I held a short lunch seminar on the subject of the most prominent startups in the region. The seminar was held because I was asked to do it, and when I thought about it I realized would be interesting to do. So I did, even if it was with a limited amount of preparations […]
Digital and Technology: Skåne Companies are nominated for top honors at Swedish Mobile Gala
Some companies in Öresund region will fight for top honors in the Swedish Mobile Gala in the beginning of November. Mobile Gala is an event when the year’s most successful Swedish mobile businesses and innovators praised in connection with a major industry party in Stockholm. According to the nominations announced on Monday, some companies from […]
Investment Lab 2013 – what was said about funding?
This is a guest-post by Hampus Waldemarson, CEO at SHIP, who attended the Investment Lab Copenhagen 2013 event, organized by Startupbootcamp with help from amongst other Bird&bird and Accelerace. About 200 persons showed up to listen to Jakob Ekkelund from SEED Capital, Tommy Andersen from Libratone, Nicolaj Hoejer Nielsen from Sepior and a interesting role […]
Startup Weekend Borgen reclaims the Danish parliament to the people
We have multiplied the number of entrepreneurs in Christiansborg with a very high number of times tonight! We might be about 7 that have actually started their own business in the Danish parliament. Those were the words from Uffe Elbæk, a newly independent politician, who has been monumental in helping getting Startup Weekend Borgen inside […]
How to build a startup community, with Brad Feld
Today I was at the small but intimate startup event organized by Neil Murray. He had mailed Brad Feld, famous for his thoughts and books about building a startup community, and had gotten him to do a 30 minutes talk over Skype. The talk first went into his four main points about how to grow […]