In May 2015, Adrien Vetterli came up with an idea sparked by a recently viral story from the Netherlands where a man decided to clean trash along a polluted waterway bit by bit, every day on his way to work. Collecting garbage from natural areas wasn’t anything new to him as he had participated in …
Serial entrepreneur Paavo Beckman started his first company at 23, and has since come a long way. 15 years and 6 entertainment and tech companies later, Paavo has evolved into something of a specialist in his field. In mid December,Paavo gave advice for boostrapped marketing and other marketing and business hacks at an event held …
Atomico and Slush released a study,“The State of European Tech”, at Slush 2015. The study is the most comprehensive review to date carried out on the European tech community, its tech talent, capital flow, entrepreneurial mindset, and success stories. Niklas Zennström, CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Atomico, co-writers of the report, spoke at …
Organized by Shareplay, Interactive Denmark, and us, NordicGameBits, Games Business 2015 was Denmark’s largest games industry conference for all Nordic game developers. Today, we look back at the conference, and share some of the best insights. On Monday December 7th at 12:30, industry professionals from Denmark and the rest of the Nordics gathered in “The …
Aalborg is a lot of things: it is a student city, a trade city, and the fourth largest city in Denmark- but the most interesting thing about Aalborg is that there are approximately 1,000 new businesses every year, many of which are tech startups. BusinessAalborg, Aalborg Kommune’s business department, offers free, one-on-one advice and the …
This year edition of the Copenhagen Documentary Festival showed a variety of films that opened windows into the worlds of art, technology, and startups. Under the category ‘’Before and After Science’’ the festival gathered movies in which science and cinema cross paths, giving the latest new innovations and research a visual form. Can technology and …
Radiant Games, an Icelandic mobile gaming startup, just released its full-length title Box Island: Epic Coding Adventure. The release closely follows an earlier release of a shorter version of the game, specially released for Code.org’s Hour of Code events this week, part of Computer Science Education Week, held December 7-13. This article was originally posted on …
The real-time publishing platform Socius captures and curates content shared on the social web to create unique and engaging stories. Socius just closed their seed round after 2,5 years of development that includes an accelerated 3 months in Axel Springer’s accelerator in Berlin. There investors include 500 Startups and Raw Invest (Bergen based firm). Their …
Entrepreneurs will have new opportunities to follow technological developments when the world-renowned Silicon Valley-based think tank Singularity University opens a Danish chapter in December, based in Copenhagen. Singularity University is among the world’s leading institutions in exponential technology and dissemination of knowledge on how to ensure a sustainable future for both businesses and communities by …
As the former in app advertising, user acquisition and economy designer for Blades of Brim, SYBO’s 2nd successful title after Subway Surfers, Mihai Gheza knows a thing or two about business in the mobile games industry. Years ago, he witnessed Subway Surfers come to life from a pre-launch prototype to 1 Billion+ downloads today, while …