Guest Entry
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.
How To Succeed When Working With Startups?
Blog: Following my latest article, where I argued why it’s a great idea for corporates to work with startups, this article serves as a to-the-point check list of how to work with startups and better your chances of success. It is mainly aimed at corporate decision makers planning to engage in Corporate-Startup-Engagement activity – or wondering why their partnering efforts keep failing.
Policy and data paves the way to a carbon light future
BLOG: 70 percent reduction of carbon emissions by 2030 is what Denmark seems to be aiming at with an incoming government. That is an ambition that calls for innovation in policies and regulation to unlock green finance and action at a scale that we have never seen before. One solution is a carbon wallet for everyone, writes Marianne Haahr, Director of Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance draw.
Why Work With Startups – A Corporate’s Guide to The Galaxy
Having spent over a decade building startups and ecosystems and subsequently connecting corporates with startups, I’ve repeatedly found myself scribbling notes with the intention of passing on some of these experiences. But like most other curious beings new projects take over quickly, and thoughts remain unstructured bits of information. This is my attempt to gather some of the more relevant bits on the topic of Corporate-Startup-Engagement (CSE).
Blockchain improves trustworthiness globally
BLOG: Blockchain can solve some of the fundamental problems that developing countries in particular deal with. The technology also welcomes new business opportunities in established industries. However, to take advantage and capitalize on blockchain, more agile regulations and smoother blending between existing systems is necessary. This is stated by Victoria Gago, Co-founder of the European Blockchain Convention, which recently represented the first big, international blockchain conference in Denmark.
Denmark is falling behind the blockchain development curve
Guest entry: European Blockchain Convention is landing in Copenhagen and gives an exceptional opportunity for the Danish business sector to take a strategic position on the Global Blockchain map
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. […]
“Your company’s social role needs a connection to your product”
BLOG: At the relaunch of Tryg’s entrepreneurial community, The Camp, COO Lars Bonde and venture investor Peter Warnøe, talked about the things that make a company […]
Despite the “Crypto Winter” – Blockchain Innovation is Booming!
BLOG: Many people take a look at cryptocurrencies and envision their success relative to their price on exchanges. The general consensus has been that blockchain […]
Security Tokens are here, Next Up Sustainability Tokens
BLOG: Blockchain regulations for securities are emerging in more and more countries. This movement will help to unlock trillion of dollars in sleeping savings to cash […]
Seven pieces of advice on how to start business in Africa
GUEST ENTRY: Doing business in Africa can be a big challenge for many. But it does not have to be. You just do it right from the start. Here are 7 tips for getting […]
Get the sales team on your side: How BotSupply and Oracle approach new customers
GUEST ENTRY: A partnership with the Copenhagen-based scale-up BotSupply has become a proof of collaboration for Oracle. It all comes down to the strength of the shared […]
Passion, love, and the “Ugly slide”: How to pitch a VC in 2019
BLOG: I hate pitch decks! Ok — There, I said it. As a VC you see a LOT of pitch decks. Even though some of them stand out, their repetitiveness will tire you out […]
Should good HealthTech make itself redundant?
As health technologies continue to develop at lightning fast speed, new digital solutions seek to change the way patients interact with the healthcare system. With the […]
Time to use digital finance to unlock and scale sustainable change
Blog: The financial sector is at the forefront of adopting digital technology, but only to a limited extent to innovate the financial system to deliver sustainable finance.
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 […]
How to be tech in the tech lash – Ottoman androids and Pseudo-AI
AI and machine-learning are on the verge of becoming meaningless buzzwords and we could be deepening the tech-lash if we as startups are promoting technologies, we have […]
Startup and corporate co-labs: How to team up right
BLOG: How to create a strong partnership between your startup and an established business company.
Fear and loathing in venture capital
A core principle of venture investing is putting the founder first. Most firms do so in marketing; more and more are living it. That’s different to when I started out in […]
Move slow and don’t break things: How to be tech in the techlash
The techlash can be dealt with by startups and the tech industry. It just needs to take it seriously.