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Re: Ask HN: Stockholm Startups?

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Post by dsimard »

mmelin wrote: post #5

One big thing that's happening soon is 24 hour business camp in late October. The event is already full (120 participants) but there will probably be an after-party the weekend after the event where you can build your network. edit: link for that is http://www.24hbc.com/ Mattias Swenson of Bloglovin maintains a Ning network at http://swedishstartups.ning.com/ - it's not extremely active but if you sign up for a membe…

Start a business in 24 hours? Interesting... does that actually work for people?

Anyway, thanks for the links!

Re: Ask HN: Stockholm Startups?

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Post by tuukkah »

Spotify R&D is in Stockholm, they have users and are in the headlines, I hear they use Debian in their backend, and they let paying customers access their DRM service using third-party clients too. Draw your own conclusions.

Re: Ask HN: Stockholm Startups?

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Post by mmelin »

dsimard wrote: post #11
mmelin wrote: post #5

One big thing that's happening soon is 24 hour business camp in late October. The event is already full (120 participants) but there will probably be an after-party the weekend after the event where you can build your network. edit: link for that is http://www.24hbc.com/ Mattias Swenson of Bloglovin maintains a Ning network at http://swedishstartups.ning.com/ - it's not extremely active but if you sign up for a membe…

Start a business in 24 hours? Interesting... does that actually work for people? Anyway, thanks for the links!

Yeah, people build a first version of their app, not a whole business in the 24 hours. I participated in the first iteration as well, which was back in January. Check out the list of projects after the informal vote: http://www.24hourbusinesscamp.com/2009/01/vote-for-your-favo...

Re: Ask HN: Stockholm Startups?

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Post by dsimard »

Feeble wrote: post #4

What are your skills? What type of business areas are you interested in?

A little bit of everything I guess. I'm a developer for sure, but I'm a generalist at heart which is why a small start-up sounds appealing to me.

As for specific skills, lately I've been defaulting to Python. I've been going through all the SICP lectures too which is re-exciting me about lisp, but I'm not too optimistic about finding a job using that.

As for business areas, I'm feeling pretty open-minded right now.

Re: Ask HN: Stockholm Startups?

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Post by sbt »

willmacdonald wrote: post #2

I'd love to find to startup or developer communities here too. Do you speak Swedish ? I'd feel a bit awkward going to some meeting and being one of the few people who don't speak Swedish. I moved to Stockholm a couple of years ago but haven't had a chance to do any searching yet, busy with babies.

You really don't need to speak a scandinavian language in scandinavia. People speak english almost as well as the dutch, and they don't mind switching to english at all.

Re: Ask HN: Stockholm Startups?

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Post by berntb »

Other people have give good answers. Here are a couple of things you might want to do the first few years.

Education is free in Sweden. Check for if your background allows you to get into university courses. (The evening/distance courses are generally for older people that already works. Good contacts.)

You have checked for user groups of your favorite development environement(s)?

Disclaimer: I left the area for a nice job, a few years back. :-)

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