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- ArcticEvening Stockholm
Obaren (Sturehof)
Wednesday, November 18 at 6:00pm - ArcticEvening Tampere
Demola
Tuesday, November 17 at 6:00pm - ArcticEvening Helsinki
Dubrovnik Lounge
Tuesday, October 27 at 6:00pm - Arctic Evening Copenhagen
La Oficina
Wednesday, June 24 at 6:30pm
To kick off this week I want to take things to macro level regarding entrepreneurship, politics and media. It is a topic we seldom talk about while we promote entrepreneurship here at ArcticStartup from the bottom of our hearts each and every day. I want to stress the importance of growth compani...
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It was a rollercoaster of a week, with some companies going up, some down, and some upside-down. Take Sopima, the Finnish online contract “bank,” this week they took €1m to the actual bank. Or Voddler, the Swedish “Spotify for movies” company that got 35 million kronor fro...
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Bringing you the latest in cleantech, we look today to Denmark, where in less than three weeks the United Nations Climate Change Conference aka “Hopenhagen” will start. But instead of letting our incompetent politicians decide about our future, lets take matters into our own hands ...
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Every Friday we will feature an Investment and aim to break it down as closely as we can so our audience will get an idea of where the money comes from. Sopima, a Finnish company building an online contract bank that aims to enable productivity improvements into the way organizations manage their...
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Last night a hundred of Stockholm’s brightest and best in mobile services got together to talk about future challenges, opportunities, hopes, dreams, and tearing down the old order to build it again. The event got started with a short presentation by Jaycut CEO Jonas Hombert, who just migh...
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Tietoset is a fascinating Finnish company, some 4 years old, building a SaaS-based service where industrial buyers are able to do better sourcing from the manufacturing field. They currently work with the metal industry and have been thinking of taking the model to other industries as well. I kno...
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Until today the Finnish Sisu and some rather big sunk costs has prevented the world biggest mobile phone manufacturer Nokia to admit they have been going down a wrong path already for a while. This wrong path is called Symbian. It seems that Nokia has started to use their own Nokia Maps and turne...
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By chance, I have met recently several Finnish companies operating in the new but growing cleantech segment of industrial enzymes for biowaste-to-energy applications. Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions and that can be used as new materials for renewable energy solutions. The gl...
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“Planeto takes quiz gaming to new heights. Now you can experience unprecedented quiz fun together with millions of players around the globe.”Swedish startup Planeto is going after the wealth waiting in virtual goods and social gaming, besides from the modest goal of world domination ...
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Yesterday, Swedish steaming movie startup Voddler announced 35 million kronor in new funding to help “develop the service.” It was also announced that Bertil Villard of lawfirm Vinge would be taking a board position at the company. It was not announced who the money came from. So, how...
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Exactly a week ago we had a privilege to have Eric Ries here in Helsinki to discuss The Lean Startup and what it means for startups. In short, The Lean Startup is a way to get product/market fit fast and agile.More particularly, The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing ...
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Tomorrow we’ll be having another ArcticEvening event in Tampere. The event will revolve around some interesting startup pitches and a panel with some very interesting industry heavy weights. Last week we went through our procedure to pick three companies available for pitching at the event ...
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Google is our answer to everything be it writing a Master’s thesis, looking for a new car, a new job, doing your homework or putting together an analysis on a fortune 500 stock. I, for one, use Google every single day to get to the bottom of which ever startup I’m writing about. Yet, ...
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A new version of the game Hours of War, the MMORPG war game being created by Sauma Technologies, has just been launched. The game has not been out for very long and without any major advertising they have been able to add some 20 000 registered users on board already. We wrote in January that Sau...
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This week we announced two more events in the anxiously awaited ArcticEvening series, in Tampere (17/11) and Stockholm (18/11), some tickets are left – get ‘em while you can!Then we did more of the stuff we normally do, like meaningful investigations of interesting new companies, for ...
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The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship hosted an event today ambitiously titled, “Good Morning 2019,” that plays on their 10 year anniversary by investigating what the world will be like in the next 10. Arctic Startup readers will be most interested in the presentation by Li Gong, C...
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Arctic Startup We have just announced our ArcticEvening Tampere panelists. It's one heavy weight panel again and we're very excited to have them with us! They are Jussi Harvela, Otto Chrons and Heikki Halme. Read more about the gents here: http://bit.ly/4itTH5
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ArcticStartup will be travelling to Tampere to tap into the entrpreneurial buzz there we've heard so much of. The evening will be an interesting one wrapped
The common picture we have of wind turbines are the ones which stand on tubular towers and have three rotor blades, varying in different sizes. The design is very much similar to the windmills of old, which were used to pump water and grind grain. However, Risto Joutsiniemi had already developed ...
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Reporting from the second day of MoneyTalks, being held here in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland I bumbed into a new innovative music startup called Hitlantis. I talked to one of the co-founders Timo Poijärvi about the concept and what they are doing. Poijärvi has worked in the music industry and with so...
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The other day I saw Chris Dixon’s Tweet, where he was tweeting about his company’s new nifty little widget that let’s you learn about your blog’s readers (and lets them learn about each other). I instantly thought how I’d like to share it with ArcticStartup readers, ...
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Arctic Startup We still have some free spaces available for our Tampere (http://bit.ly/4itTH5) and Stockholm (http://bit.ly/2D8bGi) event! Register now - these will take place next week!
Estonia has previously enjoyed a relatively high reputation among startups and international high tech companies due to its friendly and very incentivised tax environment. Well, if a new law regarding the different kinds of income goes through we might have to say good bye to that reputation. Bal...
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During our trip to the Silicon Valley we aimed to meet people who have experience from the Northern Europe on one hand, and from the Silicon Valley on the other to get the bottom of the differences between the two places. This is the third post of the series. See also the previous posts here and ...
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The tickets for our next week’s ArcticEvening are now available for booking. Please find the sign-up form for registering to the event below. Note that if you are unable to make it to the event, please don’t sign up. We have a limited amount of space available and would like to get ev...
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Vigo, the start-up venture accelerator programme, is continuing with its fourth venture accelerator.The Ministry of Employment and the Economy in Finland accepted Cleantech Invest into its Vigo accelerator program. The new cleantech start-up accelerator will provide funding for early-stage ventur...
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I was recently given a demo of 23 Video, a Danish online service offering a plug and play web-tv platform to set up ones own web-tv channel.The first thought that crossed my mind during the demo was the feeling of sligth anxiety that occurs when checking out the roaming costs on the phone bill. I...
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The godfather of venture bloggers, Fred Wilson, posts today on the timeline of a startup ecosystem, with the assurance that it takes at least a generation to reach a level that is, “fully formed and producing great companies.” He breaks down the development process into 3 decade-long ...
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Last month European Batteries (EB) celebrated the opening of its doors. Phase one of the project will cost close to €40m, which is a very high figure for a startup in Finland. The company was founded in 2008 as a spin-off from FEVT (later on, in September 2009, FEVT merged back into EB). Europea...
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