Iceland, Insight

How-to: Building Great Products

Discover how to start your own startup and build great products in this How to Start a Startup lecture by Bala Kamallakharan, an investor, entrepreneur, speaker, and Startup Coach from Iceland. This article was originally posted on Startup Iceland. In today’s How to Start a Startup lecture, we will be talking about Building Great Products. …

Insight

10 Mistakes You Will Make as a First Time Entrepreneur

Creating your first startup might seem easy – I have an idea, I will hire a ‘techie’, find investors and voila. ‘Wantrepreneurship’ is fun until you step into the world of entrepreneurship within the real startup scene. It might seem luxurious and easy from the outside, but once you plunge into it you will realise …

Events, Funding, Norway

Ready to fight for the angels attention?

The Norwegian Startup scene is buzzing like never before. And just this spring Norway, for the first time, had more to celebrate than our neighbours at the Nordic Startup Awards. This article was originally posted on Angelchallenge.co A feat unimaginable just a year ago – and leaving some of the worlds best Startup ecosystems, i.e. …

Denmark, Digital Platforms, Funding

Danish Washa gets investment from the Lions

Online laundry and dry-cleaning service Washa get investment to scale big. Christian Stadil, Tommy Ahlers and Jesper Buch invested 1,5 million crowns (over 200,000 euro) in Danish startup Washa, an online laundry and dry-cleaning service that picks up your clothes and drops them off clean at your address within 48 hours. The investment took place …

Events

Europe biggest music festival ads tech startups to the mix

The 10th Reeperbahn Festival is almost here, and will be bringing a new focus on tech and innovation alongside Europe’s hottest musical acts. Music, start ups, and technology: quite popular words nowadays.  We all listen to music – while commuting, while relaxing, or sometimes at live performances.  This week in Hamburg, you can explore not …

Digital Platforms, Funding, Sweden

Universal Avenue announces new investment round for sales force platform

Universal Avenue, a network of freelance Brand Ambassadors, has announced a new 5 million dollar funding round led by Northzone or Salesforce Ventures. Universal Avenue, a mixture of personal network marketing and sales, gives brands access to a global on-demand sales force. The new Swedish platform allows users, or Brand Ambassadors, to act as local sales …

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