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First entry this year in a series on innovation from places you do not typically expect much innovation from The Invisible Bike Helmet – Sweden Big Data of International Technology Patents – Washington, US TGVLabs – France Florida Poly Futuristic. MORE
Monday we hosted 40 Danish entrepreneurs for dinner and today its graduate students from Chalmers University in Sweden. Last week I had 15 Finnish entrepreneurs out to the ranch ( Aalto University has a partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program.) Looks like the ice is melting in Scandinavia. Welcome to the democratization of entrepreneurship. MORE
It’s called Hello Sweden , and here’s the kicker: the calls are taken by random Swedes. Surely the goal should be having a business in which you’d trust your customers the same way Sweden trusts its populace? MORE
“ Jim’s leaving the company? But I thought he was happy here! At least, that’s what he was always telling us. ” Change Jim to any other name, and you may have heard similar conversations around the office watercooler or pantry conversations at many companies. MORE
That Sweden is doing amazingly well for a small country (emulating Israel). Ben Rooney just posted an analysis of VC and entrepreneurial activity in Europe which included the two charts above. MORE
I have been getting emails and tweets all day from people upset that they cannot get into Startup Lessones Learned 2011 - either here in SF, where we're sold out, or in one of the more than 100 simulcast locations around the world, many of which are sold out, too. We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values. MORE
Or Stockholm in Sweden, considered one of the most startup-friendly cities in the world. MORE
In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden– we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth. MORE
So when I read about what Sweden is doing with blood donations it made perfect sense. After you give blood in Sweden, you get a text message whenever your blood saves someone’s life. I give blood platelets 3-4 times a year. MORE
Creativity and Self-Expression Innovation Politics & Government Trends, Futurism, and Research Alcatel-Lucent Booz and Company Chile China Confederation of Indian Industry Creativity Demark economics Finland Global Innovation Index Greece Gregg Fraley INSEAD Lithuania Moldova Sweden Switzerland UK United Nations USA World Intellectual Property Organization MORE
Åkers Styckebruk is a tiny village of just under 3,000 inhabitants located in Sweden’s Strängnäs Municipality, a region with a diverse and dynamic range of industries such as tourism, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, logistics and education. MORE
Nordstrom (Sweden), and Pierre Omdiyar (France) at Ebay. In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas. MORE
IFS invited me to their conference in Gothenburg, Sweden next week. In this, what I have called the year of the vertical in cloud ERP offerings, I am looking forward to learning more of their focus on asset intensive industries MORE
For the fifth year in a row Adyen and TNW teamed up to find the fastest growing companies in Europe’s six hottest startup ecosystems: the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden. MORE
Sweden is currently making headlines for tackling this very issue. There’s nothing more damaging to a working environment than demotivated employees. You’ll spot them stomping in on a Monday morning looking less than impressed, and daydreaming their way through the rest of the week. MORE
One of the reasons we like backing ecommerce companies is that here in the UK we spend more online that all other major countries bar Sweden and we punch above our weight when it comes to ecommerce leaders. MORE
He has held senior management positions at Procter and Gamble and PepsiCo; served as CEO of The Lighting Science Group; has lived and worked in Sweden, England, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and the United States; and took 16 months to sail around the world with his family. MORE
On one hand, he’s a tech innovator and entrepreneur whose creativity has earned him awards and accolades on two continents – Europe (Sweden, to be more exact) and Africa (eastern, and in countries like Nairobi, his native Somalia and Mauritius). Can you see expanding the concept beyond Sweden? MORE
After all – if you didn’t know - Spotify started as a tiny little startup in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006. If you love music, technology and startups, you probably love Spotify. MORE
On the New Florence blog Next-gen Magnets The Outside office evolves “Proton Jeff” GoPro or Go Amateur Videographer City Planning in a fast moving world Boston re-imagined Sweden wants your trash “The earliest mobile apps”. MORE
TimeCenter is developed by Sweden-based Niclas Marie and Daniel Ellenson. Marie had been running a web development shop nicmar media since 2002, and had developed an online appointment scheduler for two of Sweden’s biggest companies in 2005. MORE
Sweden is pretty much my favorite non-Iran country. The only thing better than Silicon Valley is palm trees and beaches, so Silicon Beach must be the perfect place for a techie like me coming from the cold and harsh winters of Sweden. Are there any cool, Mucker / YC esque accelerators in Sweden? What are the top 3 things you miss most about Sweden? Interview with my Everipedia Co-founder Theodor Forselius (AKA “Tedde”) by Mahbod Moghadam. MORE
There’s a battery entrepreneur in Sweden, for example, who’s doing some interesting work on the next generation of batteries. MORE
Adalberth started Klarna with the company’s other co-founders in Stockholm, Sweden, because, he says, the barrier for starting a business was high enough as it was (they were in business school at the time and didn’t really know all that much about the technology industry). MORE
The Swedish are found to be the most tolerant of what others wear in the workplace, but there is still a gender split: revealing clothing irritates 35 percent of the women in Sweden, but only 12 percent of the men. Do you want to know what really gets someone’s goat in the office? MORE
In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden – we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth. MORE
Dala Communications is taken from the nickname Dala, which refers to the Dalecarlian horse, a cultural symbol of Sweden and a part of my own family heritage. The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. MORE
In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden – we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth. MORE
These startups include companies from France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden. The Next Web has been hunting down the fastest-growing startups in Europe. MORE
Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. MORE
Bumper crop of innovations from various parts of the world we don’t always expect innovation from Near Cashless Society – Sweden A decade of LeWeb – France Faber-Castell – Germany Wine “Rover” – German wine country Rail Power – Kazakhstan. MORE
Digital is now the majority of revenues in markets such as the US, India, Norway and Sweden. Music is everyone’s favorite example of digital disruption done wrong. After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 billion. MORE
My training ground was the streets of Sweden, going door to door as a teenage evangelist. You can learn useful entrepreneurial skills in all sorts of odd places. What I learned there was resilience, persistence, and self-belief. MORE
According to the recent Web Index study by The World Wide Web Foundation , that country is Sweden. Sweden beat out the United States as it had more citizens online (90-percent, compared to 75-percent of Americans), and provided better and faster bandwidth per Internet user. MORE
The Economist published "If in doubt, innovate" a special report on The Nordic Region (Sweden, Denmark, Finland) as a hotbed for entrepreneurship we can all learn from. MORE
I am friends with many professional angels from around the world, and my analyses (allowing for our individual investment preferences) are virtually identical to those of Dave Berkus in Southern California, Matey de Nedkov in Montreal, Phillippe Gluntz in Paris and Dušan Stojanovic in Sweden. Surprisingly, no. MORE
If you’re not aware, Spotify started as a tiny little startup in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008. “The introduction of Spotify into Sweden years back saw growth in the country’s music industry, along with a corresponding decrease in music piracy. MORE
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News There were startups from Guatemala and Germany, Malaga, Spain, France, Australia, Russia, Denmark, Sweden and more at the invitation-only SXSW Global Startup Forum at City Hall. In addition to local dignitaries like Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell and SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest, was a panel of venture […] The post Startups from Around the World at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin MORE
Vaimo (Sweden). The advent of E-commerce opened up a lot of possibilities for everyone. People can now transact business, buy and sell goods and services, and share data anytime and anywhere. As long as they have the connectivity, people find it more convenient to do all these remotely. MORE
Sweden: Creative. So in Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden and United States, professionals used the word creative in their profiles to give themselves an edge in the careers… except that many others also describe themselves similarly. MORE
For the fourth year in a row, TNW and Adyen joined forces to organize the Tech5 competition in which we scour The Netherlands, the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Sweden for the fastest revenue-growing companies. This is a question we ask ourselves. MORE
Tags: Business Leadership Technology engineers QA Stockholm Sweden Vasa Royal Warship MORE
And in Sweden and Finland, robots now write more news articles than humans. Newsrooms in Sweden and Finland are leading the charge into more fully-automated content, with algorithms analyzing the facts, writing the news, and pointing their human counterparts to the most interesting stories. MORE
Divalicious is available on iOS devices and can be found in the app stores for the following countries: USA, Japan, China, Korea, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Netherlands, Russia, Italy, Spain, Germany and France. MORE
Sweden Related Topics 
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
That Sweden is doing amazingly well for a small country (emulating Israel). Ben Rooney just posted an analysis of VC and entrepreneurial activity in Europe which included the two charts above.
Jeff Hilimire
APRIL 27, 2016
So when I read about what Sweden is doing with blood donations it made perfect sense. After you give blood in Sweden, you get a text message whenever your blood saves someone’s life. I give blood platelets 3-4 times a year.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 2, 2012
According to the recent Web Index study by The World Wide Web Foundation , that country is Sweden. Sweden beat out the United States as it had more citizens online (90-percent, compared to 75-percent of Americans), and provided better and faster bandwidth per Internet user.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 15, 2013
Åkers Styckebruk is a tiny village of just under 3,000 inhabitants located in Sweden’s Strängnäs Municipality, a region with a diverse and dynamic range of industries such as tourism, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, logistics and education.
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 10, 2013
Digital is now the majority of revenues in markets such as the US, India, Norway and Sweden. Music is everyone’s favorite example of digital disruption done wrong. After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 billion.
deal architect
OCTOBER 20, 2016
IFS invited me to their conference in Gothenburg, Sweden next week. In this, what I have called the year of the vertical in cloud ERP offerings, I am looking forward to learning more of their focus on asset intensive industries
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JULY 2, 2011
Creativity and Self-Expression Innovation Politics & Government Trends, Futurism, and Research Alcatel-Lucent Booz and Company Chile China Confederation of Indian Industry Creativity Demark economics Finland Global Innovation Index Greece Gregg Fraley INSEAD Lithuania Moldova Sweden Switzerland UK United Nations USA World Intellectual Property Organization
deal architect
JANUARY 16, 2014
First entry this year in a series on innovation from places you do not typically expect much innovation from The Invisible Bike Helmet – Sweden Big Data of International Technology Patents – Washington, US TGVLabs – France Florida Poly Futuristic.
deal architect
DECEMBER 18, 2013
Bumper crop of innovations from various parts of the world we don’t always expect innovation from Near Cashless Society – Sweden A decade of LeWeb – France Faber-Castell – Germany Wine “Rover” – German wine country Rail Power – Kazakhstan.
deal architect
DECEMBER 19, 2012
On the New Florence blog Next-gen Magnets The Outside office evolves “Proton Jeff” GoPro or Go Amateur Videographer City Planning in a fast moving world Boston re-imagined Sweden wants your trash “The earliest mobile apps”.
The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
One of the reasons we like backing ecommerce companies is that here in the UK we spend more online that all other major countries bar Sweden and we punch above our weight when it comes to ecommerce leaders.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
On one hand, he’s a tech innovator and entrepreneur whose creativity has earned him awards and accolades on two continents – Europe (Sweden, to be more exact) and Africa (eastern, and in countries like Nairobi, his native Somalia and Mauritius). Can you see expanding the concept beyond Sweden?
The Next Web
MAY 24, 2018
For the fifth year in a row Adyen and TNW teamed up to find the fastest growing companies in Europe’s six hottest startup ecosystems: the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 20, 2017
My training ground was the streets of Sweden, going door to door as a teenage evangelist. You can learn useful entrepreneurial skills in all sorts of odd places. What I learned there was resilience, persistence, and self-belief.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 4, 2015
Or Stockholm in Sweden, considered one of the most startup-friendly cities in the world.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
The Economist published "If in doubt, innovate" a special report on The Nordic Region (Sweden, Denmark, Finland) as a hotbed for entrepreneurship we can all learn from.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 10, 2011
TimeCenter is developed by Sweden-based Niclas Marie and Daniel Ellenson. Marie had been running a web development shop nicmar media since 2002, and had developed an online appointment scheduler for two of Sweden’s biggest companies in 2005.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2011
Monday we hosted 40 Danish entrepreneurs for dinner and today its graduate students from Chalmers University in Sweden. Last week I had 15 Finnish entrepreneurs out to the ranch ( Aalto University has a partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program.) Looks like the ice is melting in Scandinavia. Welcome to the democratization of entrepreneurship.
The Next Web
JANUARY 16, 2017
In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden– we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 8, 2012
After all – if you didn’t know - Spotify started as a tiny little startup in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006. If you love music, technology and startups, you probably love Spotify.
SiliconHills
MARCH 7, 2014
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News There were startups from Guatemala and Germany, Malaga, Spain, France, Australia, Russia, Denmark, Sweden and more at the invitation-only SXSW Global Startup Forum at City Hall. In addition to local dignitaries like Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell and SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest, was a panel of venture […] The post Startups from Around the World at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden – we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth.
Start Up Blog
APRIL 9, 2016
It’s called Hello Sweden , and here’s the kicker: the calls are taken by random Swedes. Surely the goal should be having a business in which you’d trust your customers the same way Sweden trusts its populace?
Gust
JULY 5, 2014
I am friends with many professional angels from around the world, and my analyses (allowing for our individual investment preferences) are virtually identical to those of Dave Berkus in Southern California, Matey de Nedkov in Montreal, Phillippe Gluntz in Paris and Dušan Stojanovic in Sweden. Surprisingly, no.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
For the fourth year in a row, TNW and Adyen joined forces to organize the Tech5 competition in which we scour The Netherlands, the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Sweden for the fastest revenue-growing companies. This is a question we ask ourselves.
The Next Web
APRIL 25, 2014
These startups include companies from France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden. The Next Web has been hunting down the fastest-growing startups in Europe.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden – we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth.
Mucker Lab
SEPTEMBER 7, 2015
Sweden is pretty much my favorite non-Iran country. The only thing better than Silicon Valley is palm trees and beaches, so Silicon Beach must be the perfect place for a techie like me coming from the cold and harsh winters of Sweden. Are there any cool, Mucker / YC esque accelerators in Sweden? What are the top 3 things you miss most about Sweden? Interview with my Everipedia Co-founder Theodor Forselius (AKA “Tedde”) by Mahbod Moghadam.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 15, 2013
If you’re not aware, Spotify started as a tiny little startup in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008. “The introduction of Spotify into Sweden years back saw growth in the country’s music industry, along with a corresponding decrease in music piracy.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 3, 2018
Vaimo (Sweden). The advent of E-commerce opened up a lot of possibilities for everyone. People can now transact business, buy and sell goods and services, and share data anytime and anywhere. As long as they have the connectivity, people find it more convenient to do all these remotely.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 25, 2018
There’s a battery entrepreneur in Sweden, for example, who’s doing some interesting work on the next generation of batteries.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 4, 2012
Sweden: Creative. So in Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden and United States, professionals used the word creative in their profiles to give themselves an edge in the careers… except that many others also describe themselves similarly.
The Next Web
MAY 2, 2013
Adalberth started Klarna with the company’s other co-founders in Stockholm, Sweden, because, he says, the barrier for starting a business was high enough as it was (they were in business school at the time and didn’t really know all that much about the technology industry).
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 6, 2017
Nordstrom (Sweden), and Pierre Omdiyar (France) at Ebay. In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 5, 2014
“ Jim’s leaving the company? But I thought he was happy here! At least, that’s what he was always telling us. ” Change Jim to any other name, and you may have heard similar conversations around the office watercooler or pantry conversations at many companies.
Austin Startup
MARCH 23, 2018
And in Sweden and Finland, robots now write more news articles than humans. Newsrooms in Sweden and Finland are leading the charge into more fully-automated content, with algorithms analyzing the facts, writing the news, and pointing their human counterparts to the most interesting stories.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2011
Divalicious is available on iOS devices and can be found in the app stores for the following countries: USA, Japan, China, Korea, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Netherlands, Russia, Italy, Spain, Germany and France.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
Sweden is currently making headlines for tackling this very issue. There’s nothing more damaging to a working environment than demotivated employees. You’ll spot them stomping in on a Monday morning looking less than impressed, and daydreaming their way through the rest of the week.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 23, 2011
I have been getting emails and tweets all day from people upset that they cannot get into Startup Lessones Learned 2011 - either here in SF, where we're sold out, or in one of the more than 100 simulcast locations around the world, many of which are sold out, too. We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
He has held senior management positions at Procter and Gamble and PepsiCo; served as CEO of The Lighting Science Group; has lived and worked in Sweden, England, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and the United States; and took 16 months to sail around the world with his family.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 1, 2015
Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2011
The Swedish are found to be the most tolerant of what others wear in the workplace, but there is still a gender split: revealing clothing irritates 35 percent of the women in Sweden, but only 12 percent of the men. Do you want to know what really gets someone’s goat in the office?
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Dala Communications is taken from the nickname Dala, which refers to the Dalecarlian horse, a cultural symbol of Sweden and a part of my own family heritage. The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea.
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