Interview with Swedish Startup Gavagai co-founder Jussi Karlgren.
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Lots of amazing and exciting startups! check out http://wussap.com/ http://omnicloudapp.com/ http://shotbox.se/ and http://gavagai.se/

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Swedish startup 46elks.com announced another release of their platform. Now, they accept payments in Euro as well as Swedish krowns.

The Co-founder and Chief Elk Pejman Dashtinejad tells more

Recommending people, not places, for travel.

A Scandinavian Startups exclusive with the CTO of Tripl Nicolas Grasset blogged live from the Stockholm Night Owls at Stockholm Hub

A great idea for the socially connected mindset of the now generation, Tripl aims to allow people to enjoy other people while traveling. We wrote about this startup at it's very founding, but now there are more exciting news afoot!

With the proliferation of services like Groupon, daily deal vouchers have become one of the hottest new marketing channels for businesses everywhere.

If you run any sort of retail business, chances are that you have either already been contacted by a sales representative from a daily deals site, or will be receiving a phone call very soon.
Competition is ramping up, with over 10 daily deal services on the Swedish market alone, and new ones popping up every month.

This post was blogged live from the Nordic Seed Capital Summit 2011.

Among the themes and speakers:

Insights on how to build global companies  international VC-firm DFJ Esprit

Advice from international growth fund Highland Capital Partners

Experiences from Nordic startup QlikTech, NASDAQ success exit

A disgruntled reader sent us a link to this job with the words "that's it, I'm starting my own company"!

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Why are there so many more women leaders in the taskforce in Scandinavia than in the US?

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Have you heard about the Ericsson Widget Awards? Flying somewhat under the radar, the event celebrates applications for mobile phones that can solve real problems,  with Ericsson awarding euro 15000 prises. With no updates easily available, here is the scoop delivered by ScandinavianStartups:

Winners:

MyCube -a mesh between FaceBook and MySpace with a news aggregator and their own currency  thrown in for good measure.

Staying somewhat under the radar but gaining attention in geek circles, MyCube's pitch is being " the World’s first Social Exchange, a content-centric, privacy-focused social network".

MyCube aims to offer users complete control of their information and interactions, allowing them to discover and earn income with content through the use of a digital currency.