After a turbulent year that saw markets riled, commodities plunge, and currencies wither against the dollar, many expected the American dollar to come back out as the top currency in 2015. Instead, the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is being heralded as the best performing currency. Does this mean everyone is poised to get on board with bitcoin? …
Nowadays, the apps on your smartphone today are far more likely to be created in Stockholm or Sweden than in Silicon Valley. If asked most people would assume these businesses are American or British creations, but they’d be wrong.While they may have now moved the bulk of their staff to those countries, these businesses are …
The latest figures from the Danish Business Authority reveal that the distribution between men and women engaging in entrepreneurship has remained constant since 2001, with 1 out of every 3 entrepreneurs being female. An entrepreneur is statistically defined as a person who creates new business in non-agricultural industries, meaning re-launches, acquisitions and the like are …
Iceland’s Frumbjörg, started by Brandur Karlsson in cooperation with Sjálfsbjörg, the Icelandic national federation of the disabled, is an Innovation Center for Mobility. The initiative’s goal is to provide the disabled with the opportunities for employment and develop innovations within the healthcare and social sectors. The social entrepreneurship venture is meant to provide individuals with …
This week, Forbes released their annual “30 under 30” list of young talent, and 5 Swedes made the cut. The list, which totals 600 people in 20 different categories, is an annual compilation of young global talent. The categories listed include e-commerce, enterprise tech, gaming, and finance. Although the Nordics (and Europe as a whole) …
In the United States, startup companies that are valued at over a billion dollars in the very short term are called “unicorn” companies. Uber and Airbnb are two well-known companies to have received this designation. Now, Norwegian multinational Schibsted wants to build it’s own “unicorns”. In a stock exchange announcement, Frode Eilertsen, of Schibsted’s Media …
Nordic businesses represented their region on Deloitte’s EMEA Fast500 List in 2015, with Swedish based iZettle as runner up, Norwegian Clean Marine and Etrinell in the top ten, and six of fourteen Icelandic companies on the country’s Fast50 making it to the Fast500. Earlier this week, Deloitte announced the fourteenth Fast500 List for Europe, Middle East and …
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 …
Crowdsourcing Week (CSW), a platform for promoting the crowd economy, has launched their own equity crowd-funding campaign. The goal of the campaign is to increase their e-learning and consulting offerings, to spread crowd-sourcing how-to to a wider audience. This includes an online educational program to teach businesses about the crowd economy While the current CSW …
With its Danish partner bank in place, the Scandinavian “neo-bank”, Lunar Way, is now rolling out its partner model in Northern Europe. It will be the first mobile bank in Norther Europe to rapidly scale through this model. The partner model is the first of its kind in the world of European neo-banking and gives …