First out was a two side article about 17 of may (national day in Norway) and Sverige-Norge.se. It was printed in the newspaper but you can read a copy of the article on Sverige-Norge.se website.
Then the online magazine, DI.se, did another interview about the differences between Norway and Sweden concerning salaries.
First out was Entreprenörsskapsjakten, by Gustaf Josefsson, where I together with KVD.se (Kvarndammen) was judging a section when the competitors tried to come up with creative solutions to use social media for attracting new customers. The results were in great variety but overall very good and creative! The winners were Entreprenörspartiet with Lisa Lindgren, Ludwig Jonsson & Adrian Swartz.
Later at the night it was time for celebration with Idéfestivalen and Idégalan.
The day after I was spontaneously invited by my friend Johannes Hansen to attend and coach competitors in Hjärna, Hjärta, Cash, a competition that last for 48 hours and was about creating social entrepreneurship. The ideas were great and I’m looking forward to follow them to real business ideas.
After that it was time for Stockholm and SM in Ung Företagsamhet. A two day long event with incredible ideas and energy that refreshed your whole body. One of the days was meant for a national board meeting which I was attending. The winner was Bolsa UF.
One of the speakers for the opening ceremony was the Swedish prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, which I, Viktor Nord, offcourse had to say a few words to.
Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden was represented by former UF-students Joakim Bank, Emma Knaggård Wendt, Erik Fjellborg and Per Anderberg Almhorn. Unfortunately I, Viktor Nord, am not a former UF student.
After that I went to Örebro to my friends Mikael Blix and Johan Berglund at Sportion to attend their yearly office party with a lot of familiar faces.
Then it was time for the 17 of may celebration in Oslo which last for a couple of days. I envy the Norwegian passion for the national day!
Here is my partner and better half Christian Josefsson and me Viktor Nord in the middle of Oslo. Take care so long!
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
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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
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!
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!
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
