“Ever since I can remember, I have known that I wanted to become an entrepreneur,” shares Jakob Breddam of WeLoveStartups. WeLoveStartups is an organization located in Copenhagen, Denmark that focuses on assisting startups with funding to help entrepreneurs and their companies reach their full potential. Jakob Breddom, together with Daniel Laursen, founded and came up …
Pricelizer has been making waves across Europe, and has built some tremendous momentum in the e-commerce industry since their founding in 2013. After participating in the #Pitchdeck at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg and presenting at the invite-only Next Conference in Hamburg, founder Karl Lillrud is quickly becoming a sought-after expert in e-commerce customer satisfaction. …
Netflix has become one of the biggest online movie and TV show platforms – but what about a platform for readers? Norwegian startup Vio Media is creating a “Netflix” for Magazines. Articles from your favorite magazines gathered in one place. That is the basic idea behind VIO – a digital magazine platform. Vio Media wants …
Solu Machines is developing a radically new approach to computers by reshaping how devices and people coexist in the connected world. Will this small group of innovative people from a basement in Helsinki be able to alter the course of an entire industry? The founder and CEO of Solu Machines, Kristoffer Lawson, talks about why …
Camilla Hessellund Lastein, Founder & CEO of Lix Technology, is not one to back down and take no for an answer. Having started Lix from a deep need of her own, she has captivated the textbook publishing industry in Denmark, with sights already set on expanding to markets outside of Scandinavia by mid 2016. Originally …
Urska Srsen met her co-founder Sandro Mur on a kitesurfing trip in Croatia. For her, becoming an entrepreneur was a very spontaneous and almost accidental process. Something that started as a project ended up as a business. It all started when Urska’s friend Sandro contacted her mother, one of the leading obstetrical gynecologists in Europe, …
We interviewed Swedish Innovation Compass, an innovative app aimed at connecting startups with the right funding. Stephen Batley, CEO of Swedish Innovation Compass, and Sasa Farkas, technical lead, aim to make the startup ecosystem in Nordic countries even better than it is now. The innovative app gathers information on all available and soon-to-be available financial …
In preparation for Slush x Ultrahack on the 6th through 8th of November, Mikko Järvilehto, Ultrahack Executive Producer and CEO of Futuretournaments, interviews a series developers and partners for different challenge tracks. Today, he talks with Teemu Kinos, inventor of SOSHO. By Mikko Järvilehto & Niilo Korkiakoski AI powered shop clerks are taking over. So …
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 …
Today’s article is about WeLovestartups board of directors, concerns our media-guru and communication expert, Nicolai Danmark Johannesen, founder of Singleplus.dk and Reshopper. What are your biggest entrepreneurial successes? Creating a team. One of the most important things I have discovered through my entrepreneurial career, is the importance of hooking up with the right co-founders to …
