Recently Shortcut announced a list of 100 new and inspiring young entrepreneurs in Sweden. The list was fun to read in many aspects, Christian Josefsson with our company Sverige-Norge.se and 24 other people from Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden was mentioned. The worthy winner was Daniel Ek, founder of Spotify, closely followed by the members of YEoS:

Lisa Renander & Julia Hamrin with Go Enteprise

Mattias Tyrberg with SAPLO

Mikael Blix & Johan Berglund with Sportion Media Group

Gustaf Oscarsson with Bissy Media

Alexander Brännkärr & Fredrik Hjort with Infoside Sweden

Petter Hedborg with Remium relations

Erik Fjellborg with Quinyx flexforce

Diana Svensk with Svensk Fashion

Christian Josfesson & Viktor Nord (me) with Sverige-Norge.se

Therese Albrechtson with Greyzone, Iboards, Bodyguard

Emma Knaggård Wendt with Emma KW

Christian Albinsson och Fredrik Pettersson with Lördag Morgon

Akrem Abdu with Problemfinders

Nick Larsson with S.T.A.T underwear

Sebastian Stjern & Lina Stjern with The Fair Tailor

Benjamin Kainz, Oscar Lundin & Arvid Morin with Ung omsorg

Sofia Falk with Wiminvest

I wish you all a big congratulations. You are all well worht it! Keep up the good work out there.

Best regards

Viktor Nord

Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden, Ung Företagsamhet and me was posted in this month newsletter from Profil Stenungsund. Profil Stenungsund is a foundation with representatives from the industrial/business life and the commune, such as Borealis Group and Hogia, in Stenungsund. The purpose of the foundation is to strengthen the trademark of Stenungsund.

I wanted to make the original pdf a bit more sexier so I learned the new 3D option in Photoshop CS4. Nice, isn’t it?

Today me and Christian spend two hours taking photos for a campaign. A highly ineffective day but it was quite fun. The photographer told us he usually only shoots girls from Victoria Secrets but made an exception for today. I will try to put some of the pictures up when I get them. Tomorrow will be more focus on our clients and the redesign for the user-interface.

Today I spend half the day discussing the issues of UF with the national chairman of the board (Erik Skog), the CEO (Magnus N:son Engelbäck) and the chairman’s of the boards for the regions “West”. The meeting was effective and the statistics that was showned was very intreseting. I have no doubts that these people will make the UF very successfull 2010!

Magnus Engelbäck, Christer Löfqvist, Börje Johansson, Erik Skog

Marcus Anzengruber, Viktor Nord, Ida Backlund, Mattias Tyrberg. Picture taken by a great photographer johannanyholm.com

Marcus Anzengruber

I had the opportunity to meet and compete against three very promising young entrepreneurs a while ago. First out was Marcus Anzengruber, 20 years old and founder of Constant. A very clever and nice young man. He has 14 employees and told me he was hiring as much as 2 more employees every month! Incredible!

Ida Backlund

Then I met one of Sweden’s most promising female business leader, Ida Backlund, born the fantastic year of 1985. Founder of Rapunzel. It took me approximately 10 seconds from the first time I spoke to her to realize that she is a person everyone likes. Big congrats to her boyfriend Stefan Löfgren!

Mattias Tyrberg

Then last I meet Mattias Tyrberg the founder of Saplo. This is one of the smartest guys I ever met with an cocky attitude. He told me he was going to buy Google in a few years because his business idea and research was that good. I like it!  Together with the researcher Sverker Sikström they developed a technology which automatically can read and understand text in similar way as we humans do.

I have no doubts that these three young entrepreneurs will continue to do BIG things and I wish them all my best of luck!

Jonas Gahr Støre (Norges utrikesminister) was a guest in swedish radio this summer and talked about how importent it is with Swedish workforce in Norway and mentioned Sverige-Norge.se.

“Hjemmesiden på internett som heter Sverige-Norge.se ær ett tegn i tiden. En tjeneste for svensker som vil arbeide i Norge, og di er mange – Utan svensk arbetskraft stannar Norge.”

Today I’ve got a call from Frøydis Braathen, a reporter at Aftenposten in Norway. We had a great talk about how trendy it is for swedish people to work in Norway. The talk resulted in a nice article.

Here is the article in paper:

A few days ago I was interviewed by Svenskt Näringsliv about what we young entrepreneurs have in common. This weekend 28 young entrepreneurs will go out on a conference at sea. I will try to post up some pictures and movies from the conference so you can have a look.

Here is the article (in swedish):

http://www.svensktnaringsliv.se/regioner/goteborg/article85209.ece

That was what the headline of an article posted about my company in one of Norways biggest newspaper. This is in Norwegian so it might be hard to understand for you english readers. Have a great day anyway!

- Svenskene som drar til Norge for å arbeide har en helt annen arbeidsmoral og holdning til arbeid enn andre svensker, sier Viktor Nord i Sverige-Norge.se til HegnarOnline.

Artikkel av: Øystein Byberg (HegnarOnline – 04.9.09 15:41) URL: http://www.hegnar.no/personlig_okonomi/article391433.ece

En skulle tro at arbeidsmarkedet i Norge ser mørkt ut. Men sammenlignet med andre land og særlig Sverige, er arbeidsmarkedet i Norge fortsatt veldig lyst. Det finnes nok av jobber i visse næringer. Et meget interessant aspekt på det hele er hvordan den svensk-innvandringen til Norge har økt.

- Svenskene som drar til Norge for å arbeide tilhører en bestemt gruppe arbeidstakere. De har en helt annen arbeidsmoral og holdning til arbeid enn andre svensker. Mange drar for å forfølge karrierer og ønsker derfor å utmerke seg på arbeid ved å jobbe hardt. Selvfølgelig spiller de høye lønningene, lave skatter og det faktum at det faktisk finnes jobber en stor rolle også. Det er større sannsynlighet for at de får beholde jobben sin, sier administrerende direktør Viktor Nord i Sverige-Norge.se, som kobler sammen svensk arbeidskraft med norske arbeidsgivere.

- Situasjonen kunne vært helt annerledes hvis Sverige hadde hatt en lav arbeidsledighet, høyere lønninger og lavere skatt enn Norge. Da hadde de dyktige nordmennene i stedet dratt til Sverige for å forfølge en karriere i stedet, sier Nord til HegnarOnline.

Ifølge Nord har antallet svensker som bor og arbeider i Norge mer enn fordoblet seg i løpet av de siste 10 årene; fra 33.000 til nesten 76.000. Hvis du ser på Oslo, hvor det er mest svensker, var der tidlig på 90-tallet drøye 3.000 svensker, mens det nå i 2009 finnes nærmere 11.000, de fleste i bydelen Frogner.

- Av de norske arbeidsgiverne som vi hjelper til å finne personell for, har vi bare fått positive tilbakemeldinger når det gjelder den svenske arbeidskraften, sier Nord.

I was interviewed by Founders Alliance 26th of may 2009. Unfortunately the interview was in swedish. The topic was entrepreneurship. Hopefully I will give an interview in english soon. Here is the link of the video if the above link doesn’t work: Viktor Nord talks about entrepreneurship . If you have some time of and want to help me with some votes for a competition I would be glad. Here is the link – Link for voting . Have a great day and thanks for reading/watching/voting.