Effort to make Denmark better for foreigners started by startup community
That the nordic countries are known for being colder is common knowledge. And a lot of foreigners also know that the people living her have a more isolated approach to social contacts as well. This makes the Nordics always somewhat hard to settle in – and to feel really at home in. But as foreigners […]
Upcoming Nordic Growth Hackers #7
Do you want to know how to create or keep up growth of online business at home? Go visit Nordic Growth Hackers on January 25th. Who is coming 5 important speakers will show up at the event sharing their successful experiences: David Helgason (Founder, Unity) Morten Ebbesen (Founder, Siteimprove) Gert Sylvest (Cofounder, Tradeshift) Martin Leblanc […]
SimpleSite becomes the only Danish company that lands among Red Herring Top 100 Global Winners 2015
Danish SimpleSite, a service that enables users to build their own websites with ease and simplicity, has won Red Herring Global award. The company’s CEO, Morten Elk, represented the company at the ceremony in Los Angeles, USA. The 100 finalists at the Red Herring Global were selected from more than a thousand technology companies worldwide. […]
A great follow up for Nordic Growth Hackers
For the second time, Nordic Growth Hackers opened the doors to Founders House in Copenhagen and invited all interested individuals to an open event about online business and marketing. “Growth hacking is a very large and very interesting tool box, that you can apply to your online business” says Morten Elk, Founder of SimpleSite, presenter of the event […]
First Nordic Growth Hackers meet-up
An evening focusing on both general terms and useful tips. The event consisted of 6 speakers, presenting how they work with growth hacking and success-stories as well as failures. “An evening with focus on mechanics, and not on pitches or value proposition, that or often heard at startup events” – welcomed Morten Elk, CEO at […]
#Cphftw Town Hall #3 – packed with people and announcements
The third #cphftw Town Hall meet-up was held earlier this week. There were big news about the initiative itself as well as a lot of announcement of very interesting new initiatives. The venue was the Kph Volume hall – a very rough environment, that reinforced the ambition of the whole initiative – do it simple […]
SimpleSite reveals company’s financial performance for 2013
Danish SimpleSite, or 123hjemmeside how it is better known in the region, made public company’s performance results for the past year. “I’m rather proud that we have been able to generate 35% growth to 45 mio DKK (6 million Euro) in revenue on top of a an already fairly substantial 2012 revenue. I think it […]
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 […]
123hjemmeside continues it’s global scaling – and shares interesting numbers from the growth
The startup 123hjemmeside, which operates in 24 countries so far under brands such as simplesite.com (US) or 123webseite.de (DE), has shared with them their yearly earnings numbers for 2012, and together with that their ambitious plans to grow even more international. The company has said that they have started to perfect their user acquisition costs […]
New shop module of 123Hjemmeside.dk contributes with an additional 0,75M Euro in turnover
123Hjemmeside is a service which gives users without IT skills the opportunity to build a website in a few minutes. In January they silently launched their new ‘shop module’ which allows customers to add an online shop to their site for an additional 99 USD. They made a silent launch in order to react to […]