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Impact investing is already mainstream in private equity
Many believe that impact investing is far from mainstream. In spite of the fact that there are more and more global financial sector giants also changing their investment strategies. I […]
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It makes financial sense not to go back to business as usual, but to invest in impact
Survey shows that about 15% of both impact and economic returns exceeded global impact investors’ goals. Only 9% of them reported poor financial results in impact investing.
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Working towards a SLUSHtainable future
Slushstainability is back! But it never really left. Sustainability is an integral part of the way Slush operates, and every year we want to keep raising the bar. What are some of our Slushstainability highlights this year?
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The dark side of growth hacking
Two weeks ago, I participated in Tech-festival. Here we are at the opening session with Taylor Ryan talking growth hacking.
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Build your own pop-up house
Sponsored: Many dream of one day building their own home. However, building your own home is unfortunately expensive and time-consuming, making it hard to make this dream a reality. This new concept will make it cheaper, easier and faster to build – wherever you want. It’s a pop-up house made of wood. The name of the new concept is Zettl. The name means I-will-put-roots-down-here. The name and concept should awaken the inner settler who wants to experience the world with his own Zettl “snail house” on his back.
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How UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Changed Our Mindset
United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals challenge companies and individuals’ way of thinking and doing business. Partnerships are vital for creating the required change, like other startups this is how we have built our business in Suncil. We have learned that the SDG’s are more than a hip branding platform. Most of all it is a global collective narrative on how every company and individual can secure a more sustainable world.
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Is the Nordic investment culture “founder-friendly”?
BLOG: Is there a “founder-friendly” investment culture in the Nordic countries— and what does that mean? What dilemmas do Nordic founders face when they want to raise capital?
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The Next Web – Stepping it up!
Last week I visited Amsterdam for one of the biggest tech events in Europe: The Next Web conference. Together with around 17.500 inspiring founders, investors, tech leaders and many other awesome ecosystem players from all over Europe I spent two days exploring the technologies of tomorrow on the industrial piers of Amsterdam. Here below I will share some highlights and insights from this not-to-miss event!
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Too Good To Go awarded as Europe’s hottest growing company
Too Good To Go has been awarded with the first prize in the 2019 edition of the Tech5 competition Awards hosted by The Next Web and Adyen as part of the The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. They have outperformed the competition and ranked first in front of runners-up Unifly (Belgium) and Unbabel (Portugal).
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More international capital to scale Danish startups
Denmark Demo Day aims to bring international investors on board with Danish startups earlier. This increases the chance that more will reach series A and above.
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Can the Nordics become an epicenter for global impact business?
Richard Georg Engström, the initiator to The One Initiative and the Nordic Impact Business Summit in June in Copenhagen, has a mission. He wants to find the first nordic impact unicorn.
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How to solve an extensive recruitment need
It has been a growing tendency in Danish startups and scaleups that they have challenges with recruitment. This is partially because of an all time low unemployment rate. […]
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Good accelerators create growth – bad ones may be pure innovation theater
The growing number of accelerators that have appeared in recent years has given entrepreneurs pause, and many have begun writing them off as a waste of money and time. […]
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Index Award becomes an impact investor
The Danish Design Award Index has established a prestigious venture fund that will ensure more early-stage design ideas become sustainable products and solutions. Eight […]
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How to scale your startup with interns
You’re losing ground if you’re not using interns in your startup, writes Taylor Ryan, CMO at the startup Valuer.ai.
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The grassroots investor: I am humble about other people’s money
Neil Murray grew up with the maturation of the Danish and Nordic ecosystems for entrepreneurs. An experience he can use as the spearhead for Nordic Web Ventures, where he […]
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Fix for the startup-corporate culture gap: Speak up about your pain points.
If you start with the tough topics, the distance between startup and corporate might be smaller than you think. Case in point: The recent IoT collaboration
between the […]
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The founder of Couchsurfing on optimizing for impact
Casey Fenton created Couchsurfing, the platform now known as one of the pioneers of the sharing economy. It was his way of taking control of his destiny, to share his […]
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Denmark is growing into a start-up nation
The Danish ecosystem for entrepreneurship is no toddler no more. Considered by the size of capital raised in Seed- and series A rounds, Denmark is a frontrunner in the […]
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The Family is coming to Denmark
The Family is not an incubator or an accelerator – it’s a family. Like any good family, we educate, protect, and finance our members — ambitious entrepreneurs in Europe. […]