Archive for the ‘ICT’ Category
From Nokia to Entrepreneur with ICDK!
Four start-ups founded by former employees at Nokia arrived in Silicon Valley to explore the limitless possibilities of the valley – and Innovation Center Denmark led the way. While Nokia is for the most part leaving Denmark, they are leaving behind great buildings, excellent high-tech equipment and smart employees. They could have been like so [...]
Denmark is looking to be the leader in speaker technology
At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in January in Las Vegas, the Danish company Libratone was awarded with the International CES Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree and with it, Libratone placed itself in the forefront of speaker technology and design. The Libratone Live, which is the speaker system that won the [...]
SOPA Demonstration in San Francisco
This Wednesday, Silicon Valley legend and top angel investor Ron Conway joined the tech community of San Francisco in a protest against SOPA. The mob had gathered outside of San Francisco city hall to show their dissatisfaction with latest development in the SOPA controversy. Here is a short clip of the speech Conway gave. The protesters [...]
Our new startup initiative SCALEit is here!
Our new accelerator program, SCALEit, offers a great opportunity to Danish tech companies with a vision to make it big in the US – and the rest of the world! SCALEit Accelerator is a 12-week program designed to accelerate Danish companies with potential for global growth. The program will give up to 10 promising tech [...]
The Next Web Goes to Denmark
Our friends from The Next Web has been in Denmark to visiting some Danish entrepreneurs. Have a look at the video to see some of the most interesting Danish startups. Read the whole article and watch a video interview with Alex Farcet (Startupbootcamp) and Mikkel Svane (Zendesk) here.
Ge.tt visiting TechCrunch Disrupt 2011
As we mentioned in the blog post “Scaleit Alumni, Conferize, Takes on DEMO 2011″, a lot of Danish entrepreneurs has been visiting Silicon Valley the last couple of weeks. At TechCrunch Disrupt we bumped into two guys from the Danish Startup Ge.tt (more info on Ge.tt after the picture). During the event our intern Lasse made a [...]
Scaleit Alumni, Conferize, Takes on DEMO 2011
Last week the annual DEMO conference took place in Silicon Valley. Among the participants was Martin Ferro-Thomsen (@Ferrogate) founder and CEO of Conferize, a Scaleit alumni company. On his blog Martin describes the DEMO 2011 experience as following “DEMO was an awesome experience! Thanks a bunch to everyone who took their time to meet with us and [...]
Danish Startup Talents looking to learn from you!
This Fall some of the best and brightest Danish students in innovation and entrepreneurship are coming to the Bay Area looking to learn from the inspiring startup and innovative environment here. And we mean the brightest! Among Danish students enrolled in a business grad program -with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship- we choose the [...]
Do you want to launch your startup in Silicon Valley?
Launching a business in Silicon Valley can be a springboard for almost for any company. Investors are always on the lookout for new opportunities to invest in. One of the initiatives dedicated to help startup companies to get this head start and find investors is Launch: Silicon Valley 2011 Launch Silicon Valley is a full-day [...]
Two is better than one!
This blog post is actually not about an event happening in Silicon Valley, but in Denmark. But it touched upon something that people in Silicon Valley are excellent in– Networking! You don’t start a business alone – Period! You might thinkthat you can develop the products or services by yourself; facts are different. Building startups [...]
PODIO – the much anticipated danish startup – is in town!
Every now and then you will meet a Danish startup in Silicon Valley, that really has what it takes. Podio is one of them! Podioʼs “social work platform” is best described as a Facebook for companies – but that doesn’t really do it justice. We’re talking a full work platform with messaging, calendars, tasks and [...]
VIDEO: The Apple iPad 2 released! (edited on iPad 2)
There is ALWAYS extreme hype, rumors and attention connected to the release of certain Apple products – especially the iPhone and iPad. At this years SXSW, Apple launched the iPad on Friday, March 11th. Totally not in sync with their regular Tuesday rollouts. Supposedly this was because it was Steve Jobs birthday. I don’t believe that! A few days [...]
