entrepreneurship, Events

Ambassador to Cologne and German Startups at SxSW

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Recently I was honored to be invited to South by Southwest (SxSW) in Austin, Texas as a startup ambassador to the state of NRW (where Cologne is located) and Germany.

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The Dating Game participants @ SxSW 2014

My responsibilities including speaking and moderating at various events at SxSW, helping to bring in US investors and other interesting people to the German events, and helping to organize and MC the Startup Dating Game, a new and fun take on the old TV classic having VCs and startups date, at the official German venue, German Haus.

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Events, innovation

Nordic creative businesses and the German market

Speaking in Norway

Speaking in Norway

Yesterday I was visiting my home country of Norway where I was honored to be invited to speak about exporting Nordic creative businesses and more specifically about how to do business in Germany at Hydrogenfabrikken in Fredrikstad based on my +8 years of doing business in the land of Volkswagen, Sauerkraut and Weizenbier.

The main take-aways I had to share were:

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