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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
Despite being a country with a small GDP, Sweden has been able to successfully and significantly compete in the world in the world market. Sweden guarantees the first, but you must work hard for the second and the third requirement. 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
On March 3rd, Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced that is surpassed $1 BILLION in funding pledges. That’s $1,000,000,000 in funding for entrepreneurs. Very interestingly, Kickstarter included lots of interesting statistics on these crowdfundings as follows: 5.7 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
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
Take a look at the student climate strike that a 16-year-old girl in Sweden started. Imagine that when you were a kid, someone told you that your dreams are important for the world and that what you do matters right now. Dream Tank Kids Exploring the Techstars Boulder Accelerator. 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
Dubbed a ‘unicorn factory’ Sweden has become a powerhouse incubator for some of the most innovative startups. In fact, in 2017 Sweden more than doubled its number of startup exits. 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
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
Except this year we’re going big… In the past, only startups from the Netherlands, the UK, Spain, France, Germany, and Sweden could apply. TNW and Adyen’s annual Tech5 competition is back again. 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
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
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
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
Einride is currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden. If Stockholm is Europe’s Silicon Valley, Gothenburg is Sweden’s Detroit. sxsw transportation startup sweden self-driving-cars 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
Sweden is popular for the recycling and sustainability measures taken throughout the years. The answer is, mainly, in Sweden’s concern with environmental matters. Since the ‘90s, when the country first started to recycle what could be recycled, Sweden has evolved so much. 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
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
South Korea only recently started exploring regulation, for instance, while Sweden has been offering derivatives in Bitcoin since 2015. Economic bubbles aren’t new. 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
Read interview here Alternates: Mobalytics , Marina Del Rey, CA Uru Sports , Denver, CO Xplosion Technology , Missouri City, TX Transportation and Delivery 9:30 am Saturday, March 9 Finalists: Autonomous Electric Transport System , Gothenburg, Sweden Electristructure , Gothenburg, Sweden ENSO?—?Sustainable 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
Sweden Related Topics The Next Web
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Dubbed a ‘unicorn factory’ Sweden has become a powerhouse incubator for some of the most innovative startups. In fact, in 2017 Sweden more than doubled its number of startup exits.
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.
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 12, 2019
Sweden is popular for the recycling and sustainability measures taken throughout the years. The answer is, mainly, in Sweden’s concern with environmental matters. Since the ‘90s, when the country first started to recycle what could be recycled, Sweden has evolved so much.
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
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.
Austin Startup
MARCH 4, 2019
Einride is currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden. If Stockholm is Europe’s Silicon Valley, Gothenburg is Sweden’s Detroit. sxsw transportation startup sweden self-driving-cars
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.
OnlyOnce
OCTOBER 18, 2010
Tags: Business Leadership Technology engineers QA Stockholm Sweden Vasa Royal Warship
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”.
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.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Except this year we’re going big… In the past, only startups from the Netherlands, the UK, Spain, France, Germany, and Sweden could apply. TNW and Adyen’s annual Tech5 competition is back again.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2019
Take a look at the student climate strike that a 16-year-old girl in Sweden started. Imagine that when you were a kid, someone told you that your dreams are important for the world and that what you do matters right now. Dream Tank Kids Exploring the Techstars Boulder Accelerator.
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
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?
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 3, 2019
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
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.
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?
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.
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 Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Despite being a country with a small GDP, Sweden has been able to successfully and significantly compete in the world in the world market. Sweden guarantees the first, but you must work hard for the second and the third requirement.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
Growthink Blog
MARCH 9, 2014
On March 3rd, Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced that is surpassed $1 BILLION in funding pledges. That’s $1,000,000,000 in funding for entrepreneurs. Very interestingly, Kickstarter included lots of interesting statistics on these crowdfundings as follows: 5.7
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.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Read interview here Alternates: Mobalytics , Marina Del Rey, CA Uru Sports , Denver, CO Xplosion Technology , Missouri City, TX Transportation and Delivery 9:30 am Saturday, March 9 Finalists: Autonomous Electric Transport System , Gothenburg, Sweden Electristructure , Gothenburg, Sweden ENSO?—?Sustainable
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.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 25, 2018
South Korea only recently started exploring regulation, for instance, while Sweden has been offering derivatives in Bitcoin since 2015. Economic bubbles aren’t new.
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
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.
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