“Your company’s social role needs a connection to your product”
The startup space inside Tryg’s headquarters, The Camp, just relocated and is now taking up a larger part of the corporate campus in Ballerup. The move was marked with cake, bubbles and talks about the innovation landscape. Tryg COO Lars Bonde opened the conversations on stage with Peter Warnøe, CEO and General Partner in the venture fund Nordic Eye. The main question for both of them: What makes a company – big or small – future-proof in 2019? Their dialogue started off in the call for responsibility, after a 2018 where customers across industries demanded more heart and soul from…
Efterlyses: Debat om digital ligestilling
”De systemer og algoritmer, vi udvikler nu, kan sætte ligestillingen årtier tilbage og påvirke udviklingen i en meget negativ retning. Men de kan også bruges til at fremme ligestillingen, hvis vi forstår at udvikle det rigtigt. Og det er lige nu, det sker, ikke om fire år,” siger Camilla Ley Valentin, stifter og CCO i Queue-it.
Good accelerators create growth – bad ones may be pure innovation theater
According to the Harvard Business Review, the number of accelerators grew by 50 percent in the United States between 2008 and 2014. China has decided to increase the number of incubators, makerspaces and accelerators to more than 10,000 by 2020 (China had 7,500 accelerators as of 2017). The 10,000 plus accelerator programs in the world today, according to StartupYard and Gust, are a part of a growing global ecosystem currently emerging around entrepreneurship. This new breed of entrepreneurship, with its roots in the American Y Combinator in 2005 and followed by TechStars in 2006, has exploded, growing rapidly to include…
Kasper Hulthin: At lede en startup er som at løbe foran et lyntog
På fire år er Peakon vokset fra fem til 180 medarbejdere, og yderligere 50 er på vej ombord. Det kræver sin leder ikke at blive kørt over med den fart. Co-founder og Chief Growth Officer i Peakon, Kasper Hulthin giver sine fem bedste tip til scaleup-ledelse.