The app that makes jamming fun and simple, takes over the music education in Finland. If you have ever played a musical instrument – you will love that! If you need a reminder that business can be about having fun and doing what you love, you will love it even more! Find something really annoying …
Miia Liesegang and Taina Tallala are the architects behind the direction of a new Finnish startup which wants to make gardening more enjoyable and bring a real product to customers. With backgrounds in marketing and design, and a foothold in the entrepreneurial world for some time, they decided to team up to create Belightful, a …
Welcome to the first week of Planday’s adventure in the United States. This week really brought the heat in the Lemonsqueeze office, where Planday is housed. Onboarding was on the agenda, and Lemonsqueeze had divided it into two phases: Company Onboarding and Employee Onboarding. Company Onboarding focuses on getting Planday’s DNA into ‘Plandayers’ – new …
3-offer portals are emerging on the business scene. Some of the most noticeable are Autobutler.dk and Colego.dk. Two students from Aarhus have added a travel edition to the mix: HereYouGo.dk. In a busy weekday time is everything, and any extra hours you can are priceless. In the last couple of years, 3-offer portals have emerged …
Sofie Lundström, founder of To Borrow, is building a lending platform, easing access to capital for new smaller companies. Originally published in #NordicMade magazine. When Sofie Lundström was growing up, she did a great deal of sports. It is during that time she got her strong character and zest to be the best at what …
Establish a solid, sustainable business in the United States in just 30 days! This is the challenge the Danish startup Planday have given themselves – look over their shoulders and experience their 30-day voyage ‘over there’. Each year, many Danish companies try to put down roots in the US market, but only a few succeed …
Gulnaz Khusainova, founder of EasySize, uses big data to know your body size better than you do. Originally written in #NordicMade Magazine, August 25th, 2015. The Nordic countries are booming with fashion technology startups like Son of A Tailor, Miinto, Fits. me, The Cloakroom, Heelosophy or EasySize. EasySize is the Copenhagen-based, data-driven technology startup that …
The world’s first smoothie vending machine company sees phenomenal response on crowd funding platform. In 2007, when cancer researcher Astrid Friborg attended a lecture on entrepreneurship for a course that she took in parallel with her doctoral research, she was struck by a brainwave. A juice bar had won a competition, and she wondered if …
With his background in developing SMS services, Daniel Döderlein was annoyed by the fact that money could not change hands as easily and quickly as sending a text message. Döderlein decided to figure out why. The idea of sending and receiving money instantly using your mobile phone came to Döderlein in the summer of 2006, …
One of Europe’s largest online fashion retailers, Zalando SE, is expanding their technology operations internationally by opening a new technology hub in Helsinki. On August 27th they welcomed their new local team to the company. By Dorte Primdahl Møberg Focusing on the development of innovative customer-facing products, such as fashion apps, Zalando aims to boost …