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Nordic Tech Tour: Our journey gets going
June 18, 2010… risks having it chopped off. This is part of the reason it’s a good idea to take part in a pitching competition. Not only does it provide great exposure to the media and possible investors, it also forces you to cut down your key message from forty pages to ten.
With this in mind, a while ago Microtask applied for Tech Tour, which this year focused on the Nordic and Baltic regions. Because the great opportunities for growth companies at this event are well known, only a small …
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awards, microtask, pitching, start-up, tech tour, venture capital, winning | 2 CommentsFlop Idol: another crowdsourcing contest site gets Minted
December 5, 2011… into a design-contest site. Instead of having a team of in-house designers, it crowdsourced them, pitching hopeful designers against each other in a kind of talent contest, with winners chosen by vote.
For Minted, crowdsourcing meant more originality in the designs and (more importantly) plenty of exposure. Oh, and $5.5m worth of investment and sales upwards of $11m.
Of course, as readers of this blog know, Minted is by no means the first contest crowdsourcing site to net big investments. …
The Travelling Salesman is back – Part 2
January 24, 2011… at the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship our Travelling Salesman had the chance to attend a pitching competition: “It seemed like the whole building was crowded with startups. However, unlike in Finland where people speak in English, everything was in Danish: presentation, pitches, even simple chitchat. VCs were 100% Danish – everybody was tall, blonde and in a good shape – apart from us there were no foreigners in sight. Even so, I didn’t really understand why it wasn’t in …
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, nordic countries, Norway, salesman, Sweden, tech startups, travelling, trip | 5 Comments2010: A year not lost on the crowd
December 26, 2010… It was a year we spent sharing our vision, first as a finalist at the Nordic Tech Tour pitching competition, then presenting at CrowdConf and the Icelandic Gaming Industry (IGI) conference.
Happily, it seems other people were as excited about our ideas as we are: in August we announced the investment by the venture capital fund Sunstone Capital, and in October the New York Times shared our vision with the world. Most important of all, we even found time to put our name on …
