News archive

January ‘10

• The first First Friday was held and it was a huge success.  60 participants watched 10 entrepreneurs take turns on stage with their 3 min. x 3 slides slots.

December 09

• Clint Nelsen of Startupweekend.org was in CPH to talk to us at Startupbootcamp about holding such an event in Copenhagen.  As it turns out, we got seriously ambitious and decided to run simultaneous events throughout the Nordics including at least Copenhagen, Stockholm, Malmö / Lund, Helsinki, Olso and Talinn.  The date is set for: April 9th 2010.

November 09

• My friends at OK1 are launching a new networking initiative: First Friday.  I’ve really missed a quality networking event for entrepreneurs in Copenhagen and my hope is that this is it.
• I have the privilege of announcing that I am co-founding Startupbootcamp together with one of the hottest startup teams in Denmark, Rainmaking. Startupbootcamp is a micro-investment and mentorship program for entrepreneurs who want to turn their ideas into real startups in 3 months.
• The Startupdenmark job portal has expanded its scope to cover the entire Nordic region and has moved to www.nordicstartupjobs.com.

October 09

• Apply for a Visiting Scholarship to UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz.  Scholarship sponsored by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.
• First edition of Startupdenmark’s newsletter.

September 09

• It’s here: Startupdenmark’s job portal dedicated to startups.  Oh, and we’ve added some pretty special headhunting services as well.
• Most of Iværk09, the entrepeneurship fair, is in Danish but we’ve managed to schedule a workshop on “How to startup a business in Denmark right now”.  Alex Farcet will be presenting with David Madié, of Startup Company, on Sept. 11th at 2.30pm in the ‘Konzepteriet’ area.  The workshop will be followed by networking at the cafe until 4.30pm at which time there is a keynote speech by Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur (also in English).  Contact Alex at alex[at]startupdenmark.dk for free tickets
• The Global Entrepreneurship Week is taking shape and has a Danish site listing several events in week 47.

August 09

• The Sweden/Denmark Tech Tour is coming up.  See the interview with Anders Christjansen, President of Tech Tour Denmark | Southern Sweden
• Gazellegrowth.com and Accelerace.org are looking for a fresh round of startups and SME’s to support.  These two excellent programs are free for Danish companies

July 09

• CBS (Copenhagen Business School) has an award-winning MBA internship, read the press release (in Danish).  They are looking for positions with startups starting in September, ending in December.  Contact Agnes Madsen for details: am.info[at]cbs.dk or +45 3030 5554

• Cleantech Cluster launched.  See the press release from Copenhagen Capacity and the details of the bid (in Danish)

• I’ve added a pretty cool widget from Amazon to recommend some books

June 09

• Startupdenmark’s first video interviews are available (Dr. Jørgen Thorball, of XO Ventures;  Thomas Frederiksen of Preseed).  To see all videos in one place visit the Youtube Startupdenmark channel or visit Startupdenmark’s Vimeo page
  
• The Nordic Venture Forum is looking for startups to present at their pitch event on October 19th

• I presented “Starting a company in Denmark” to an audience of 70+ expats from the Expat in Denmark network

• I was a coach at a Connect Denmark “How to Pitch to Investors” session

May ´09

• Red Herring’s top 100 VC’s includes one Danish VC: Northcap Partners.  See the interview with Jacob Bratting Pedersen.