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Nordic Accelerator Conundrum: Sweden’s Startup Accelerator Ecosystem

Posted on Sunday, Dec 14th

This article summarizes Sweden’s Startup Accelerator Ecosystem – its incubation and acceleration infrastructure, comparing 1Mby1M to what’s available and educating Swedish founders on how to work with Silicon Valley from day zero.  Sweden has long been a European innovation powerhouse. Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö are home to a thriving startup scene, producing globally recognized companies

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Using Services from Sweden

Posted on Friday, Oct 2nd

European entrepreneurs often successfully bootstrap using services. The chasing investors from the get go disease is less prevalent on the other side of the Atlantic, although the virus from Silicon Valley has been traveling now to all corners of the world. Dapresy Founder Tobi Andersson and CEO Rudy Nadilo share their journey, having crossed $7

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Sweden: Dapresy Founder Tobi Andersson and CEO Rudy Nadilo (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Aug 21st

Tobi Andersson: I spent many hours meeting customers telling them about my efforts. We were able to launch our platform which was called Dapresy Pro. That is the platform that we are offering to the market today. The first version of Dapresy Pro was made to address each customer’s needs. I told them, “I’m going

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Sweden: Dapresy Founder Tobi Andersson and CEO Rudy Nadilo (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Aug 20th

Sramana Mitra: What changes did you make? How did you move to the next phase of the journey? Tobi Andersson: I decided two things. One is that I’m going to be an international company, which means I should have an offering that can help grow the company outside Sweden. Sweden is a great market. It’s

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Stardoll for Little Girls: Mattias Miksche (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 21st

I covered Stardoll in the Deal Radar series. Here’s the story from CEO Mattias Miksche. SM: Please describe your personal background : Family, upbringing, early career, etc. leading up to this venture. MM: I have a multicultural background. Austrian dad, German mom – they came to Sweden during/following World War II. I was born &

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