What a day in Rainmaking!
Executive summary of the 5th of January 2010
09.00: Met with partner colleague Martin Bjergegaard http://www.rainmaking.dk/hvemervi.aspx?lang=dk and discussed a new potential project within online retail. Also touched upon general allocation of resources for our new projects in UK
10.05: Met Tanveer – the cofounder of http://dk.vopium.com/ - and discussed a health care idea. Very exciting.
11.44: Nice lunch from www.frokost.dk – of course
12.15: Met Kasper Vardrup http://dk.linkedin.com/in/kaspervardrup and Michael Bodekaer http://www.michaelbodekaer.com/ to discuss potential ways of working closer together in the future. Great people! Hope we can find a win-win solution.
14.06: Replied to email update from Michael Wiegert – successful Swedish serial entrepreneur – concerning a possible CleanTech project we are evaluating together
14.53: Booked tickets for next weeks trip to London where we will have steering committee meeting in www.cyclepods.co.uk. Meeting are also booked with Henrik Werdelin from Index Ventures and three local entrepreneurs whom we might get an opportunity to work with.
16.15: John Zoffmann – cool designer and architect – visited our new office and had tons of ideas how to make our new offices illustrate our values, culture and innovative concept
16.37: Posted new job opportunity (online marketing assistant) on CBS, IT University and DTU job portals
16.42: Received first two applications within 1 minute … wauw
17.14: Received application from Estonia for our www.startupbootcamp.dk program. How did we reach out there?
20.15: Worked on the people and portefolio strategy for 2010 for www.rainmaking.dk – so many opportunities and so many great people who we can work with – but how do we match it all up in an effective and efficient way? Not to mention financing it all …
21.34: Watched 3 episodes of Klovn (a Danish sitcom). Big laugh and a fantastic day was over.
/Carsten
Article about Nordic startup initiatives
This article http://tinyurl.com/ybugw4c covers two important initiatives on the Nordic startup scene: Seedcamp and Startupbootcamp.
Startupbootcamp is the initiative, which I am running (via Rainmaking) together with Alex Farcet.
Season greetings to everyone. Looking forward to lot of entrepreneurial activities in 2010.
International expansion for Cyclepods
We are now 5 months into our engagement with Cyclepods. Currently we have interesting discussion with new business partners in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Canada, Malaysia and South Korea. Germany has come the furthest and our German partner will launch our products in February in Germany, Switzerland and Austria as well as in a number of central European countries. In North America we have an interesting discussion with an US premium bike brand, who wants to use the Cyclepod to expose their bikes in show rooms.
During fall ’09 the Streetpod design has been finalized. Check www.cyclepods.com shortly for pictures and details. The Streetpod is a welcome contribution to our product portfolio, focusing the on-street parking market.
In our home market – UK & Ireland - we just finalized the installation of 200 Spacepod units at KPMG’s new office in Canary Wharf (London). We’ve also added more Minipods sales resources, to further meet the great demand for this product.