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Mind the Gap Between a Good Idea and Good Business blog.startupprofessionals.com
Based on my own experience and feedback from friends, every investor...
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Mobile workers are finding it more difficult than ever to disconnect... baselinemag.com
Mobile workers are finding it more difficult than ever to disconnect...
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Record 16% of Stanford MBAs Launching Start-ups wire.inc.com
16% of Stanford’s MBA class of 2011 chose to start a company,...
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City Spotlight – Wrapp co-founder Hjalmar Winbladh (@HjalmarWinblad) talks Stockholm
Hjalmar Winbladh, serial entrepreneur, Silicon Vikings member and CEO of social gifting service Wrapp, discusses what makes Stockholm,...
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Tips for keeping startup costs under control in the early stage of a... under30ceo.com
The young entrepreneur council provides 14 tips on keeping your...
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6 Hidden Reasons Why Investors Say Come Back Later blog.startupprofessionals.com
Here are the most common issues that cause funding requests for...
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Are Incubators Really Necessary for Startup Success? readwriteweb.com
“Considering that incubators tend to look for very specific business...
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The End User's Energy Summit svlgenergysummit12-esli.eventbrite.com
No cancellations, however, substitutions are welcome! Contact the...
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Internet to be 3.5 x larger in 2016. Chris Thompson @ Cisco speaking...
According to a new report by Cisco, the Internet is growing so fast...
The Incredible Expanding Internet to Grow 3.5 Times Larger in 4 Years -
Silicon Vikings member Keld Jensen article: WOW Your Audience! 4 Ways...
Nice article in Forbes by Silicon Vikings member Keld Jensen. You...
WOW Your Audience! 4 Ways To Deliver Masterful Presentations -
City and Surrounding Region Are Drawing Start-Ups and Gaining Jobs,... online.wsj.com
When it comes to high-tech jobs, San Jose is still the hub of Silicon...
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Will Facebook Buy Opera? Here's The Rundown Of The Rumors arcticstartup.com
Facebook has an ungodly amount of money burning in their pocket...
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Rebtel Hits 17 Million Users, Releases iPad App arcticstartup.com
By Greg Anderson, June 01, 2012, Leave a Comment Its tough to...
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Denmark Moves Towards Dropping The "Entrepreneurs' Tax" arcticstartup.com
By Greg Anderson, June 01, 2012, Leave a Comment In April we did a...
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ArcticEvening Copenhagen Gathered Enthusiasts Far And Wide arcticstartup.com
By Antti Vilpponen, June 01, 2012, Leave a Comment ArcticEvening...
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What Does a Startup Have To Do To Get Noticed? blog.startupprofessionals.com
Today’s platform is built of people, including yourself, contacts,...
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Mastering the Finer Points of American Slang online.wsj.com
Here is some of the slang terms that students of English most want to...
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Internet Trends as per Mary Meeker of KPCB
This report talks about today’s Internet growth and provides an...
2012 Internet Trends
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Entrepreneurship may be the key to the future economic development and global competitiveness. Read the latest blog post that explores...
The bad news keep coming from Europe as Greece teeters on the edge of disaster in the euro zone and threatens contagion effect across ...
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Effect of EU Crisis on Near-term and Long Term Entrepreneurship Eilif Trondsen : The bad news keep coming from Europe as Greece teeters on the edge of disaster in the euro zone and threatens contagion effect across Europe and...

6 Hidden Reasons Why Investors Say Come Back Later blog.startupprofessionals.com
Inadequate business plan. Some investors say half the ideas pitched to them don't have any plan at all, even though some have great potential. Other entrepreneurs skip just a couple of the elements outlined in my previous...

Regeringen vil afskaffe iværksætterskatten, og regningen på 390 millioner kroner skal betales af bankerne.

Innovation is people using their imagination, experience, curiosity, instincts and relationships to develop and implement ideas that ...
5 Tips for Sparking Innovation forbes.com
How do you define innovation? The company 3M, one of the first organizations to fully embrace innovation as the essence of its corporate brand, defines it as "new ideas - plus action or implementation - which result in an improvemen

A favor from you
Dear Silicon Viking friends.
I am developing on a recruiting service where we use LinkedIn to gather information about candidates. ...

Facebook’s next big buy could be browser maker Opera venturebeat.com
Facebook may be looking to buy browser maker Opera Software, according to a new report. A source told Pocket-lint that the social network wants to expand into the browser space and is looking to acquire Opera to do so.

Noam Wasserman, a Harvard Business School professor, wants you to survive. For more than a decade, he has been hunting for reasons that ...
A Harvard Professor Analyzes Why Start-Ups Fail boss.blogs.nytimes.com
Evgenia Eliseeva Harvard’s Noam Wasserman. Noam Wasserman, a Harvard Business School professor, wants you to survive. For more than a decade, he has been hunting for reasons that explain why start-ups and their founders...

Opera Software would cost Facebook over $1 billion as competition from Google and others could push up the price tag, analysts said on ...
Opera would cost Facebook over $1 billion: analysts mobile.reuters.com
Opera would cost Facebook over $1 billion: analysts By Joachim Dagenborg and Balazs Koranyi OSLO (Reuters) - Opera Software would cost Facebook over $1 billion as competition from Google and others could push up the price tag,...

The Startup Act 2.0, introduced to the Senate this week, would create two new types of visas: a “STEM visa” for foreign-born students ...
After the JOBS Act legalized crowdfunding-based investments in new businesses, the startup community set its sights on a new legislative goal: granting visas to foreigners who are pursuing a high-tech degree or building a...

New blog post!
The post is about the emergence of (digital) learning platforms, how these may evolve, and what the implications may be for creating new ...
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On Learning Platforms and Ecosystems Eilif Trondsen : This blog post is based on work and thinking I have done over the last six months or so about the emergence of (digital) learning platforms, how these may evolve, and what...

Do not miss the event "Google's perspective on How to Win with Mobile" that will cover the five crucial mobile questions every business...
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Google's perspective on How to Win with Mobile siliconvikings.com
Google believes that mobile represents a sociological shift in how users relate to both the digital and physical world. Businesses that understand this will win. Advertisers are no longer asking "Why should I invest in mobile?"...

Read the latest blog post from Silicon VIkings SIG ENtrepreneurship & Learning.
The blog post that builds on a recent article by Chris O’Brien (in San Jose Mercury News) that addressed the excessive focus in the ...
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Beyond Social Media Investing: Accelerating Academic Research Towards Commercialization Eilif Trondsen : This blog post builds on a recent article by Chris O’Brien (in San Jose Mercury News) that addressed two related issues:...

The goal is to start and do something—to see if the opportunity can or should really be turned into a business. Of course, the ...
A colleague of mine, Brad George, and I are working on an academic paper related to entrepreneurship education. Here’s the premise. Those that need entrepreneurship education are nascent entrepreneurs—those thinking about starting a business...

Time management is one of the top challenges for every entrepreneur. Here are a few tricks for getting more done in the 24 hours we all ...
6 Time Management Strategies for Startups readwriteweb.com
Many startups seem to be powered solely by excitement over the new business (occasionally mixed with some Red Bull and Starbucks). Startup founders typically devote every waking moment to their companies, and probably even...

What is Startup Weekend? copenhagenacademia.startupweekend.org
Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.

One of the hottest startup sectors right now is education. But there's no Google or Facebook in the education space. So who is going to ...
There Are A Million Education Startups And No One To Acquire Them businessinsider.com
One of the hottest startup sectors right now is education. 2Tor, for example, has raised $90 million in venture capital to make credible online degrees for universities. Knewton has raised $54 million to make customized content...

Having talked to dozens of entrepreneurs from outside of the U.S. shortly after they arrive to take their first steps in Silicon Valley, ...
European Startups Need To Get A Valley Education, And Fast techcrunch.com
This is guest post by Julia Szopa , program director at the blackbox.vc incubator in Silicon Valley which specialises in moving European startups into the US. It is not uncommon for European entrepreneurs to come to the Silicon...

ZTE Partners With Finnish Rightware To Improve Their UI On Mobile... arcticstartup.com
By Antti Vilpponen, May 24, 2012, Leave a Comment ZTE is one of the world's largest device manufacturers and service providers to the mobile industry. In Q4 of 2011, ZTE became the fourth largest handset maker with 4,9% global...
