Cybersecurity Questions Every Business Should Ask, a resource to help business owners to ensure that they’re doing everything necessary to protect their company and the private information of their customers. By Cadence Bank
There's a cap table problem in the Nordics - too many early stage founders give up too much ownership of their biz before they even hit Series A. By @GetKahoot founder @johanbrand
American VC firms with a presence in Europe (August 2023): @sequoia, @SOSV, @Accel, @lightspeedvp, @generalcatalyst, @insightpartners, @ICONIQGrowth, @leftlanecap, and @BessemerVP. Plus, coming soon: @a16z and @IVP. By @Siftedeu
This is How You Raise a Seed Round in 2016 - walks founders through the building blocks a startup should achieve before and during seed fundraising. By Philipp Moehring of AngelList
Mistakes foreign entrepreneurs do when visting SiliconValley to raise funding: 1) Thinking too small 2) Thinking you’ll get funded as a tourist. By @vitalyg https://medium.com/@vitalyg/dear-foreign-founder-dont-come-to-silicon-valley-to-fundraise-607f92003d88
Scaling your company in new markets: #sthlmtech @engellaunilsson, CEO of Norssken Foundation & former CMO of Klarna share his insights. Via @arcticstartup
VC 101: The Angel Investor's Guide to Startup Investing - an educational guide to learn the basics of startup and angel investing, from the odds of landing on a winning company, to the key players (angels investors and VCs) placing the bets. By FundersClub
USLawforNordics is a community site that helps Nordic startups establish presence in Silicon Valley - their blog share insights and discuss legal aspects of coming to the U.S.
StartupTools - Free templates for startups in Denmark. Download fair and standardized term sheet, shareholders’ agreement, employment agreement, guide to stock options and more.
Employee share options in the Baltic states - a brief insight into the basic requirements in the Baltic states related to issuance, grant and taxation of employee share options. By @COBALT_Legal
SeriesSeed.fi is a set of standardized documents to get your startup over the legal legwork quickly
Iceland
StartupTools - Free templates for startups in Iceland. Download fair and standardized term sheet, shareholders’ agreement, employment agreement, guide to stock options and more.
Employee share options in the Baltic states - a brief insight into the basic requirements in the Baltic states related to issuance, grant and taxation of employee share options. By @COBALT_Legal
Employee share options in the Baltic states - a brief insight into the basic requirements in the Baltic states related to issuance, grant and taxation of employee share options. By @COBALT_Legal
Norway
StartupTools - Free templates for startups in Norway. Download fair and standardized term sheet, shareholders’ agreement, employment agreement, guide to stock options and more.
StartupTools - Free templates for startups in Sweden. Download fair and standardized term sheet, shareholders’ agreement, employment agreement, guide to stock options and more.
#Startupavtal - Nine agreements every startup need (in Swedish) by Sofia Gunnarsson of Sharp Cookie Advisors
16 Ways to Measure Network Effects, organized into 5 categories: acquisition, competitors, engagement, marketplace, and economics-related metrics. By Li Jin and D'Arcy Coolican at Andreessen Horowitz
The benefits of sitting on a company board: top tips. By Heikki Väänänen (@heikkitwitte) CEO/Founder #hubtampere @happyornotcom via @forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/heikkivaananen/2019/05/15/the-benefits-of-sitting-on-a-company-board/
Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business. By Mikkel Svane, CEO of Copenhagen/San Francisco's Zendesk
Outside Insight - Are you leveraging insights from external data? Learn how to implement Outside Insight in practice. By @jornlyseggen Founder/CEO Oslo/San Francisco's Meltwater
From Egosystems to Ecosystems - We are entering a new era of #businessmodels where #cocreation is key for corporates, startups, platform players to succeed. By Matthias Walter @digitalahead
Raw Startup [on Youtube] is for everyone that wants to learn more about Startups. Hosted by Heini Zachariassen, the founder of Vivino, the world’s largest wine app, community and marketplace used by millions of wine lovers every day.
Don’t Build a Startup, Build a Movement. By @meseali - While starting off with your venture, it is important to not only build a startup, but rather a movement. Creating a unique brand will create super-fans who might ''voluntarily spend their lunch breaks arguing on behalf of your awesome solution''.
School of Herring - a leadership blog for new and seasoned leaders of small and large organizations. By Mårten Mickos, Silicon Valley Finn passionate about leadership and disruptive businesses in an open and distributed world. HackerOne CEO.
How people (don’t) scale - A common problem among startups that grow quickly is that the founders don’t grow the same pace, and it ends up being a painful experience — or the bottleneck of the company. By Hampus Jakobsson
10 Marketing Lessons for Every Early-stage Founder – Want Nordic learnings in marketing distilled into ten concrete lessons? Sophia Bendz’s Spotify experience merges with her fellow Cherry Venture Partner Christian Meermann’s into a must-read for early-stage founders and CMOs.
Nilan Peiris of TransferWise provides the 110 slides he presented at the GrowthHackers LA conference on getting to traction, scaling marketing in an early stage startup, and building a business on word of mouth in “Mission Driven Marketing”
How to Succeed With B2B Lead Generation. By Hannah Meiton, Head of Growth at the world’s fastest growing background music company Soundtrack Your Brand
Localization, linguistic QA, and Translations
Nordic Fluency - localize your content from English to Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish
Ontranslate - Translate your Android or iOS app in only 10 minutes
International PR guidebook which will help you gain a better overview of international PR practices and learn how to start building awareness for your brand. By San Francisco Agency (April 2023)
Business Templates including marketing plan templates, one-page business plan templates, pitch deck templates, acquisition memorandum templates, cash flow, NDA, term sheet, pitching, action plans, SWOT analysis, newsletter templates, and lots more. By Alejandro Cremades
Chasing Unicorns - a movie directed by Rain Rannu who recently sold his company Fortumo for $45M (Jan 2021) - is about a female founder trying to make it in a male-dominated tech world
Which of the 11 American nations do you live in? - Silicon Valley is on the Left Coast: A hybrid of Appalachian independence and Yankee utopianism loosely defined by the Pacific Ocean on one side and coastal mountain ranges on the other.
With Stripe Atlas, entrepreneurs can easily incorporate a U.S. company, set up a U.S. bank account, and start accepting payments with Stripe
LeapIN is a turn-key solution to set up a location independent company with a bank account. They handle incorporation, accounting, taxes and compliance
Large list of vetted website tools including Ecommerce, Amazon Selling, Competitive Intelligence, Analytics Tools, Content Marketing, Cart/CRM Tools, Keyword Research, SEO Tools, Traffic Axquisition and Healthcare Marketing Tools
