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Nordic Tech Tour: Our journey gets going
June 18, 2010… 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 number of the applicants that apply are selected to present at it. This year the competition was especially tough, and the jury went through the business plans of more than 500 start-up, growth, and expansion phase companies.
As …
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awards, microtask, pitching, start-up, tech tour, venture capital, winning | 2 CommentsThe Travelling Salesman is back – Part 2
January 24, 2011… Lawson talked about the first part of his journey in search of the most promising Nordic tech startups. We featured his adventures on the Swedish and Norwegian scene, along with how it feels to drive around Umeå in a windowless jeep in the middle of December.
Now, with more startups, more anecdotes and even some Danish blondes, we present the final, thrilling installment…
Iceland and Denmark: Optimistic and familiar
Iceland, with its famous scenery and videogames industry …
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Denmark, Finland, Iceland, nordic countries, Norway, salesman, Sweden, tech startups, travelling, trip | 5 CommentsThe Travelling Salesman is back – Part 1
January 17, 2011… Lawson with his plan to visit Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark in search of promising tech startups. After many vicissitudes, the trip is now over and he’s back. With a presentation held the 16th of December in the premises of Aalto Venture Garage, he went on retelling his legendary journey of networking and (self) discovery.
Good trip, but luck
“When I started thinking about this journey,” began Kristoffer, “it was always on my mind that I wanted to do it in a …
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Denmark, Finland, funding, Iceland, incubator, kristoffer lawson, Landrover, Norway, setok, startup, Stavanger, Sweden, tech, traveling salesman, travelling salesman, Umeå | Leave a commentSmall Change, Big Difference
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Imagine strolling outside at night with a date you really like. Dinner went well, your jokes were funny and you think the two of you connected. But the conversation has stalled. Now, muscling its way into your evening is an awkward silence.
Desperate to find something to talk about, you gaze towards the starry heavens for inspiration. Just when all seems lost, it …
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App Store, crowdsourcing, iPhone apps, micropayments, Mobwars, Steve Jobs, tech crunch | 2 Comments2011: the year the future became history?
December 24, 2011… turmoil in the EU and US, to the more positive chaos in the Middle East.
Amidst the booming tech industry, we at Microtask have often felt insulated from this turbulence. But mostly, we have felt like we were right there, in the thick of it: 2011 was the year that the power of the online crowd shook the world (almost a year after we had discussed how crowdsourcing and information sharing platforms were being used to promote democratic change in Tunisia and Egypt).
Just as …
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