New job for Sofia Franzén, former CEO at Drivhuset
Sofia Franzén, former CEO at Drivhuset at Malmö University, becomes Business Director for Content Marketing at the e-commerce supplier Contentor. ”I’ve really appreciated my time at Drivhuset in Malmö. It has been rewarding to work with young people who want to realize their business ideas, but I’ve also been missing running companies myself and have […]
A new owner for RoligaPrylar
It has now been announced that Sortiment.se buys all the shares in AlphaGeek, which runs the e-commerce store RoligaPrylar in Sweden and AlphaGeek in the rest of the Nordics – an online store for presents, toys and fun gadgets. At the same time, the previous owner Net Departo will invest 13 percent in Sortiment.se, which […]
E-commerce veteran unviels two new interesting ventures
The Swedish e-commerce scene is about to become stronger than ever as the year starts with two new initiatives launched. On the one hand there is launch of groundbreaking measurement tool for e-commerce sector that will help with in-depth analysis of industry’s performance, the E-handel Index. And on the other hand there is creation of […]
Nordic eCommerce Summit – international e-commerce
Last week the Nordic eCommerce Summit was held at Malmö Arena. It was the first time the event was held in this region, having been in Stockholm previously. It was also the first time the event had larger a focus on international speakers and guests, and being held completely in english. Impressive international presens The […]
Building a startup community, part 2
This post is my own personal reflections and will elaborate on some of the things that where lifted during the Brad Feld event earlier this week, as well as my thoughts from running the startup Contentor, being involved in the co-working space Mindpark – and most notable after having started this site over a year […]
Alphageek launched in Denmark – the first expansion from Dan Nilsson
Swedens ‘king of e-commerce’, Dan Nilsson, got his reputation for his transparent and honest blogging, both when he was active with affiliate sites as well as when he started up what is now how his biggest e-commerce store – Roliga Prylar. That, together with him starting what is now the Swedens biggest e-commerce community Ehandel.se, […]
Contentor welcomes aboard a new CEO
Rebecca Brodd became a new CEO of Contentor, a company that offers a number of text related services for the web. After 4 years of successful performance in Scandinavia, the management of the company has made a decision to scale up company’s operations. Expansion of the management team is one of the points on the […]
IDD 2013 in Malmö last week!
It was a full house at Media Evolution City last Thursday at Internet Discovery Day with 40 companies exhibiting, and around 120 entrepreneurs, investors and other visitors in attendance. Erik Starck with The Frank Family have collated photos and the full list of exhibitors here. So what happened there? A lot! While there wasn’t enough […]