Viktor Nord» Viktor Nord – Swedish entrepreneur and CEO

Currency exchange has never been so easy!

Viktor Nord — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:00:46 +0000

I was invited to a breakfast meeting by Nordea to listen to the forner currency exchange broker Villhelm Jensen. He told us that if we spend 5 minutes using Nordea e-Markets every week we could minimize the currency risks quite a lot. I’ve been using e-Markets now for a couple of years and I’m very pleased with it, but I guess I’m only using a fragment of the potential in the program. I will sheduele some more time to learn more but I strongly recommend it for those who trade foreign money frequently.

Villhelm told us e-Market is a great way for small companies to start doing advance currency business without having a personal currency exchange broker.

Villhelm Jensen

Incredible numbers

Viktor Nord — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:17:03 +0000

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

Willingness to learn from children

Viktor Nord — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:28:02 +0000

This is an amazing TED presentation from the 12 year old Adora Svitak about the world needs to learn from children. 8:13 seconds worth watching!

New & inspiring entrepreneurs of 2009

Viktor Nord — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:22:29 +0000

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

Learn to be creative!

Viktor Nord — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:20:12 +0000

I watched a seminar with Teo Hären from Interesting.org about how you can improve your creativity. You have to start practice! And yes, you can practice to be more creative. Watch this seminar (in swedish) or visit his homepage. It’s worth every minute!

Teo Hären talks about creativity

Leadership & inspiration!

Viktor Nord — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:50:14 +0000

I hade the opportunity to inspire and learn some of the most promising young male students in Sweden and Norway about leadership at an conference in Strömstad last Friday. I used an Prezi slideshow with some headlines. You can view it here:

Here is the comments from some of the attendees:

· Jag blev med målmedveten

· Man kände igen sig i mkt det han sa, tankeställare

· Lärorikt

· Inspirerande

· Skit bra!!

· Bra som fan!

2 blond girls and 1 happy man

Viktor Nord — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:13:19 +0000

Charlotte Lindeberg (Svenskt Näringsliv), Gustaf Josefsson (YEoS), Sofia Appelgren (MittLiv & Wild'n Fresh)

I think you can imagine how happy Gustaf Josefsson was a few days ago when he arranged a meeting between YEoS, Svenskt Näringsliv and Sofia Appelgren as a speaker, just look at the picture! Sofia spoke about her wild story between her restaurant Wild’n Fresh and the public trade union. If you have the opportunity to listen to her, do it! Or buy her book.

Nowadays she runs a company called MittLiv which fights for equal rights for young people with a background from foreign countries.

The discussions were great and I think everyone got something out of this event. I also met this young entrepreneur: Sebastian Stjern – A really inspiring guy and founder of The Fair Tailor (in Nepal) which make fair trade and ecological fine custom-made shirts. They also employ persons who due to their past are unlikely to be employed anywhere else – e.g. adult former street children.

He also runs a really great blog for Swedish entrepreneurs called Entreprenörsbloggen – check it out!

Social Media – Just face the facts!

Viktor Nord — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:03:32 +0000

If you aren’t convinced yet that social media is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate please watch these stunning videos. I think you might change your mind.

Even thought some of the facts in the videos are controversial you will have to face the facts that social media is bigger than we think.

Please enjoy the videos and have a great day!

Video from – Socialnomics.com (Erick Qualman)

Statistics and slideshow from Marta Kagan

Did you know 3.0

Stats from the first video:

By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network
Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months…iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia
Yet, some sources say China’s QZone is larger with over 300 million using their services (Facebook’s ban in China plays into this)
comScore indicates that Russia has the most engage social media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month – Vkontakte.ru is the #1 social network
2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum
% of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees….80%
The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama
80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook…
The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
Wikipedia has over 13 million articles…some studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English
There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
54% = Number of bloggers who post content or tweet daily
Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
Facebook USERS translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in less than 4 weeks and cost Facebook $0
25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them
78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
Only 14% trust advertisements
Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
90% of people that can TiVo ads do
Hulu has grown from 63 million total streams in April 2008 to 373 million in April 2009
25% of Americans in the past month said they watched a short video…on their phone
According to Jeff Bezos 35% of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle when available
24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media
More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily.
Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy Listening first, selling second
Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertiser

Interview with Viktor Nord

Viktor Nord — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:55:47 +0000

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.

Young Entrepreneur of Sweden – 2009?

Viktor Nord — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:24:52 +0000

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”

Vote and win tickets?

Video teaser – Entrepreneur Gala 2009

Vote for the best Young Entrepreneur 2009 HERE.

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.

Marcus Anzengruber, founder of Constant

Mattias Tyrberg, founder of Saplo

Ida Backlund, founder of Rapunzel

My wingman – Christian!

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!

Articles about Sverige-Norge.se:

Article 1 – Article 2 - Article 3 – Article 4 – Article 5 – Article 6 -Article 7

Summer of 2009!

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.

Viktor Nord