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.
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.
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.
Today Viktor Nord and Christian Josefsson got an article published from “Svenkst Näringsliv” about the jobmarket in Sweden and Norway. Unfortunately this article is written in Swedish.
A couple of weeks ago I got nominated for best young entrepreneur in Sweden (west side). This was really flattering but my expectations was small. I was up against more promosing and much better entrepreneurs such as Eric Martinsson & Therese Albrechtson. Against my expectations I won that nomination and now I’m one of the finalists in the national event in Stockholm. They recorded a video of me. Unfortunately the video is in Swedish but you’re welcome to have a look anyway even though you don’t understand. Just click on the picture below:
Jurys motivation: ” This year’s young entrepreneur in western Sweden has developed a service to help very many people to get work. Thousands of people have been recruited to Norwegian companies already. The contractor proved the first step in an interesting business building. The contractor is focused and has the ambition to take the company forward to the next “Ryan Air – Recruitment”
The winner of this award will be presented at the Entrepreneur Gala in Stockholm the 24th of September 2009. The elite of the Swedish entrepreneurs are there and the event is stunning. If you cast a vote on any of the competitors you have the oppertunity to win free tickets. I would really appreciate that you cast your vote on the most promising entrepreneur and not just on me if you personally know me. Honestly I think I don’t have a chance against the other competitors. What do you think?
Up against the Swedish young elite:
My competitors Marcus, Mattias and Ida are all three very successful entrepreneurs and they all deserve to win this competition. Unfortunately I don’t know them personally yet, but I hope I will meet them in Stockholm the 24th of September when the winner is named.
Sverige-Norge.se has been successfull thanks to this amazing person Christian Josefsson. He has been involved since the beginning and is one of the owners. I gladely thank Christian for his incredible job of building up our company from almost nothing to a successfull company. He is not just one of the best art-directors on the market but an true enrepreneur and a big inspiration to work with. I think you all have met a person in your life that has the magic touch and succeed with everything? That’s Christian!
Thank you for reading this post. If you want to support me please share this post on your social network. I would really appriceate it. Now I just want to wish you a fantastic summer of 2009! Take care.
This post is about procrastination. Unfortunately this post was published in a Swedish magazine. For you English readers I embedded a very good video that will give you a hintch what this post is about. See down below for the video.
(Published in the Swedish magazine Entreprenör, nr8)
KLOCKAN ÄR 28 MINUTER över två denna lördagsmorgon. Det hör till ovanligheten att jag sitter själv och läser tidningar på lördagsmorgonen men denna morgon är annorlunda. Tidningen Entreprenör fick jag för flera dagar sedan men eftersom mitt företag har slukat tid fick tidningen tillsammans med Di weekend göra mig sällskap just denna kväll. Min förhoppning var att kunna läsa åtminstone en artikelom någon ung entreprenör somskulle ge mig lite inspiration. Det hittade jag inte, men det fanns mycket annat intressant att läsa om. Kombinationen av att jag inte hittade artikeln om den unga entreprenören, en mycket intressant artikel i Entreprenör och en krönika i DI weekend fick mig att starta min bärbara dator och börja skriva. Krönikan handlade om ordet prokrastinering, som jag numera har lagt till i min ordlista. Ett ord som ännu inte finns i Svenska Akademins ordlista men som finns på Wikipedia. Kort och gottinnebär det ett uppskjutande eller undvikande av en handling eller uppgift som kräver ett avslut, genom att man fokuserar på en annan handling eller uppgift .
ARTIKELN SOM JAG FASTNADE för i Entreprenör var på sida 64-65och handlade om relationer till pressen. Under tiden jag läste artikeln bestämde jag mig för att praktisera det som skrevs i den kommande veckan. I slutet på artikeln stod det ”Det är lättare än du tror”. Detta gav mig inspiration. För att nu summera varför denna insändare kom till var det alltså bristen på unga entreprenörer,det nya ordet prokrastinering, den inspirerande artikeln om pressrelationer och sist men inte minst mitt aktuella budskap till finanskrisen.
Här har ni något att skriva om:
Finanskrisen växer för varjedag och rekord många varslas. Räddningen finns i Norge. Där finns över 60 000 norska jobbannonser på Internet vilket generar chockerande mycket jobb. Lösningen för fackförbunden, arbetsförmedlingen,personalchefernaoch politikerna vore kanske att låna ut vår arbetskraft till Norge några år? Hur skulle detta rentpraktiskt gå till? Min idé är följande: Skapa en webbaserad tjänst där norska arbetsgivare kan hitta svensk personal. Låt den svenska personalen kostnadsfritt söka dessa 60 000 lediga jobb och kallasidan www.sverige-norge.se.Vad har jag nu åstadkommit meddenna insändare?
1. En del av lösningen på finanskrisen i Sverige.
2. Tagit kontakt med medierna eftersom det är lättare än man kan tro.
3. Inte bara klagat på att det inte finns några artiklar om unga entreprenörer utan även gett medierna en konkret lösning på problemet.
4. Spridit ordet prokrastinering, även om jag i detta fall inte tillämpat ordet.
5. Skrivit en glad och positiv insändare vilket kan behövas i dagsläget.
Håll hoppet uppe och sov gott! VIKTOR NORD, entreprenör och Vd för Sverige-Norge.se
Viktor, redaktionen har fått upp ögonen för dig! Vi börjar med att skicka Entreprenörs lyxigapenna som tack för en spännande insändare och lovar att ta upp dig och dina idéer på nästa redaktionsmöte. NICKLAS MATTSSON
Marcus Anzengruber, Viktor Nord, Ida Backlund, Mattias Tyrberg. Picture taken by a great photographer johannanyholm.com
