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		<title>Försnack inför SU Innovations Starta-eget-kurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Fuchs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-984" title="suinno.logga" src="/wp-content/uploads/suinno.logga_1.png" alt="" width="334" height="90" /></p> <p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.innovation.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.104371!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/teaser_w251/image.jpg" alt="little mouse growing big" width="251" height="271" /></p> <p><strong>SOINK växlade några ord med Ishtar Touailat, arrangören bakom SU Innovations egen kursserie om att starta eget. </strong></p> <p><strong>-Vilka är SU Innovation?</strong> Vi uppmuntrar och stödjer primärt forskare, studenter och anställda vid Stockholms universitet att omvandla idéer till framgångsrika produkter och tjänster på marknaden. Vi som arbetar på SU Innovation <a class="readmore" href="http://soink.se/forsnack-infor-su-innovations-starta-eget-kurs/">read more</a>]]></description>
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<p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.innovation.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.104371!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/teaser_w251/image.jpg" alt="little mouse growing big" width="251" height="271" /></p>
<p><strong>SOINK växlade några ord med Ishtar Touailat, arrangören bakom SU Innovations egen kursserie om att starta eget.<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong>-Vilka är SU Innovation?</strong><br />
Vi uppmuntrar och stödjer primärt forskare, studenter och anställda vid<br />
Stockholms universitet att omvandla idéer till framgångsrika produkter och<br />
tjänster på marknaden. Vi som arbetar på SU Innovation har lång erfarenhet<br />
av affärsutveckling och ett passionerat intresse att på bästa sätt hjälpa<br />
till att förverkliga dina drömmar &#8211; vare sig du är på idéstadiet eller<br />
redan har startat ditt bolag.</p>
<p><strong><img class=" wp-image-982 alignleft" title="389334_10150812958892021_43933757_n" src="/wp-content/uploads/389334_10150812958892021_43933757_n-215x300.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="243" />- Vad är det för kurs ni har i November och varför ska man gå den?</strong><br />
Varje termin håller vi i en mycket populär Starta-eget-kurs, senast var<br />
det över 400 som sökte. Här får blivande eller nyblivna entreprenörer och<br />
innovatörer chansen att lära, diskutera och knyta kontakter med andra<br />
likasinnade. Den här utbildningsserie är lika relevant för den som är<br />
intresserad av marknadsföring, skatter, juridik, marknadsföring m.m. såsom<br />
för den som har fått en affärside som den personen vill förverkliga.</p>
<p>Den här utbildningsserien är unik då det är fokus på mer praktisk kunskap,<br />
deltagarna ska få lika mycket inspiration som verktyg med sig för att kunna<br />
börja arbeta dagen därpå med sin dröm eller mål. Utbildningsserien i första<br />
momentet kommer kickstarta med ett inspirationsseminarium, där inspirerande<br />
och drivna entreprenörer berättar om sin entreprenöriella resa. Jag kommer<br />
moderera debatten så det kommer fokuseras på bland annat framgångstips och<br />
utmaningar och hur man bäst går vidare när man fått sin affärside. Första<br />
kursmomentet avslutas med en fest där deltagarna får möjlighet att<br />
diskutera och utbyta kunskap med rutinerade entreprenörer och med<br />
likasinnade. Så se till att ta med visitkort för de som kan!</p>
<div><strong>-Varför ska man gå den?<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-981" title="utbildning-start" src="/wp-content/uploads/utbildning-start-300x160.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="160" /></strong></div>
<p>Min personliga åsikt är att man ska gå på den om man har ett genuint intresse,<br />
ett mål eller ett syfte för att få mervärde av den kunskap som<br />
erbjuds. Dock så kan det vara en motivationsfaktor för den som vill komma<br />
igång med inte vet specifikt hur eller med vad. Det är en intensiv kurs med viktiga<br />
ämnen och här får man lära  och ta till sig värdefull kunskap, helt<br />
kostnadsfritt. Utöver det så vill jag även lyfta fram en aspekt som tas upp<br />
alltför sällan. Entreprenörskap handlar om en sak, och entreprenörer måste<br />
kunna en sak mer än annat och det är SÄLJ SÄLJ SÄLJ! Entreprenören  måste<br />
förstå vikten av sälj, hur denne säljer in sin tjänst eller produkt, hur<br />
man säljer in sig själv som entreprenör via storytelling,kroppsspråk,<br />
förhandlings &#8211; och säljteknik och mycket mer därtill. Säljtalanger är inget<br />
man studerar sig till eller övertalar sig själv till, ännu svårare blir det<br />
med ens egna affärside så värdet här är att kunna ge alla deltagarna de<br />
värdefulla knepen och men också för de som vill kunna arbeta med sälj på ett systematiskt sätt. Vår säljguru Pia Nillson med 17år i<br />
branschen kommer och lär ut allt inom sälj, av alla säljcoacher så har jag<br />
aldrig träffat någon med en sådan pedagogik och pondus. Hon är magisk!</p>
<p><strong>- Vilka är välkomna?</strong><br />
ALLA skriker hon ut och skrattar.</p>
<p><strong>- Kostar det något?</strong><br />
Det är det fina med vår verksamhet, vi vill nå ut och ge de behövande<br />
chansen till att förverkliga sin dröm helt kostnadsfritt, de behöver dock i<br />
gengäld ha passion,driv och diciplin för att förverkliga sin affärside.</p>
<p><strong>Språk:</strong> Kursen hålls på svenska (The course is held in Swedish)<br />
<strong><strong>Fem kurstillfällen: </strong></strong>7 november, 14 november, 21 november, 28 november, 5 december (onsdagar)<br />
<strong><strong>Tid:</strong> </strong>17.00- ca 19.00<strong><br />
Sista anmälningsdag:</strong> 31 oktober 2012.<br />
<strong>Anmälan: </strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE5jU2xhUkFUaWxycXByaU1rWENrRWc6MA" target="_blank">Till anmälningsformulär &gt;&gt;&gt;</a><br />
<strong>Frågor: </strong><a>ishtar.touailat@innovation.su.se</a><br />
SOINK event: <a href="http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/starta-eget-kurs-hosten-2012/">http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/starta-eget-kurs-hosten-2012/</a><br />
Mer information och registrering: <a href="http://www.innovation.su.se/vart-erbjudande/kurser-seminarier/starta-eget-kurs">http://www.innovation.su.se/vart-erbjudande/kurser-seminarier/starta-eget-kurs</a></p>
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		<title>Microsoft Imagine Cup warm-up interview!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Fuchs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://soink.se/microsoft-imagine-cup-warm-up-interview/btn_logo/" rel="attachment wp-att-907"><img class="wp-image-907 alignnone" title="BTN_logo" src="/wp-content/uploads/BTN_logo-1024x711.png" alt="" width="316" height="219" /></a><a href="http://soink.se/microsoft-imagine-cup-warm-up-interview/imaginecup-logo1-1/" rel="attachment wp-att-910"><img class="alignnone wp-image-910" title="ImagineCup-Logo[1] (1)" src="/wp-content/uploads/ImagineCup-Logo1-1.jpg" alt="" width="269" height="96" /></a> SOINK met up with <a href="https://twitter.com/ThereseT_">Therese Thorstorp</a>, Audience Marketing Manager at Microsoft, to get some juicy details on their annual startup competition Imagine Cup. <strong>Hi Therese, tell us a bit about <a href="http://www.imaginecup.se">Imagine Cup</a>!</strong> <p>Hi, Imagine cup is one of the <strong>world’s largest student technology competitions</strong>. It started 2003 <a class="readmore" href="http://soink.se/microsoft-imagine-cup-warm-up-interview/">read more</a>]]></description>
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<div>SOINK met up with <a href="https://twitter.com/ThereseT_">Therese Thorstorp</a>, Audience Marketing Manager at Microsoft, to get some juicy details on their annual startup competition Imagine Cup.</div>
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<li><strong>Hi Therese, tell us a bit about <a href="http://www.imaginecup.se">Imagine Cup</a>!</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Hi, Imagine cup is one of the <strong>world’s largest student technology competitions</strong>. It started 2003 and has now grown to be a global competition that every year host its final in different countries. In 2011 I went to New York for the worldwide finals with a Swedish team from Uppsala University.</p>
<p><img class="wp-image-909 alignleft" title="ZS1V8476" src="/wp-content/uploads/ZS1V8476-682x1024.jpg" alt="" width="188" height="283" /></p>
<p>It was so much fun and I know that the team I went with had a really great week. This year we are challenging the norms in Sweden and encouraging students to innovate based on three different topics. The first is to create an app that will help Swedish children learn math, the second is to think outside the box and create a really cool Windows 8 app. The third one is an open brief where the goal is to make the world a better place through technology.</p>
<p>The competition starts by forming a team and <strong>submitting your idea</strong> in 140 characters <strong>before November 26<sup>th</sup>.</strong> After that we will select the 10 best ideas and give every team a mentor that will help them take the idea to reality. The Swedish winner will be announced March 25<sup>th</sup> and will have the chance to go to St. Petersburg and compete for Sweden. All 10 teams will be given a mentor after the competition, and the mentors have a really big network of people in the industry.</p>
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<ul>
<li><strong>Why are Microsoft hosting a competition?</strong></li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>So many of the world’s best technology ideas have come from young adults: YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Microsoft to name just a few. Microsoft was <img class="alignright" src="http://www.imaginecup.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Fianl-2011-NY-11.jpg" alt="" width="292" height="219" />created by a really famous entrepreneur, Bill</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-908" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" src="/wp-content/uploads/P7130270-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></p>
<p>Gates so it’s in the company’s genes.</p>
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<li><strong>What’s in it for the startups?</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>It’s the best way to test your idea and get help building it. It’s also a great way to meet new people and extend your network.</p>
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<li><strong>Who can apply?</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>As long as you are a student you can compete.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>What can you tell us about Windows 8 and other upcoming news that are beneficial for Swedish entrepreneurs?</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>This is a really big year for Microsoft, we are releasing Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface. Windows 8 is releasing October 26<sup>th</sup> and everyone with the operating system will have access to apps in Windows Store. This is a huge opportunity for entrepreneurs to get their apps out to a broader audience. Windows is the largest operating system and every year around 2 million computers with Windows are sold just in Sweden.</p>
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<li> <strong>Good luck with the arrangement and thanks for the chat!</strong></li>
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<p>Competition website (SWE): <a href="http://www.imaginecup.se/" target="_blank">www.imaginecup.se</a></p>
<p>SOINK event: <a href="http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/imagine-cup">http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/imagine-cup</a></p>
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		<title>Slush warmup interview!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Fuchs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://soink.se/?attachment_id=878" rel="attachment wp-att-878"><img title="SLUSH" src="http://soink.se/wp-content/uploads/SLUSH.jpg" alt="" width="229" height="88" /></a>by<img src="http://startupsauna.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/logo_red.png" alt="" width="235" height="158" /></p> <p><a href="http://soink.se/slush-warmup-interview/slush-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-882"><img class="alignleft wp-image-882" title="Slush" src="/wp-content/uploads/Slush.jpg" alt="" width="368" height="246" /></a>SOINK had the honour to have a chat with <a href="http://twitter.com/andynosebone">Antti Ylimutka</a> from <a href="http://startupsauna.com/en/">Startup Sauna</a>, the organizers behind <a href="http://slush.fi/en/">Slush</a>, the largest startup conference in Northern Europe and Russia.</p> <strong>Antti, what´s <a href="http://startupsauna.com/en/">Startup Sauna</a> and why do you exist? </strong> <p>Startup Sauna is a program for the most promising founding <a class="readmore" href="http://soink.se/slush-warmup-interview/">read more</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://soink.se/?attachment_id=878" rel="attachment wp-att-878"><img title="SLUSH" src="http://soink.se/wp-content/uploads/SLUSH.jpg" alt="" width="229" height="88" /></a>by<img src="http://startupsauna.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/logo_red.png" alt="" width="235" height="158" /></p>
<p><a href="http://soink.se/slush-warmup-interview/slush-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-882"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-882" title="Slush" src="/wp-content/uploads/Slush.jpg" alt="" width="368" height="246" /></a>SOINK had the honour to have a chat with <a href="http://twitter.com/andynosebone">Antti Ylimutka</a> from <a href="http://startupsauna.com/en/">Startup Sauna</a>, the organizers behind <a href="http://slush.fi/en/">Slush</a>, the largest startup conference in Northern Europe and Russia.</p>
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<div><strong>Antti, what´s <a href="http://startupsauna.com/en/">Startup Sauna</a> and why do you exist? </strong></div>
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<p>Startup Sauna is a program for the most promising founding teams from Northern Europe, Baltics and Russia. The mission is to increase the quality and quantity of founding teams coming from our region and the vision that we&#8217;ll turn our region into the next hotspot for startups.</p>
<p>We exist because our region has excellent technology and technical expertise but the difficulties in the past have mostly concerned the productization of such innovations and, simply put, the lack of networks in terms of investors, talent and experienced entrepreneurs &#8211; Startup Sauna has become the platform to help out startups develop their commercial side of things and connect startups to resources that can help entrepreneurs create great businesses</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve operated Startup Sauna now for 2,5 years with 74 companies gone through the program raising over 16 million € of seed stage funding creating already 150+ new jobs.</p>
<div><strong>What is going on in November over in Helsinki, Finland?</strong></div>
<p><a href="http://slush.fi/en/">Slush</a> - 21-22 of November the largest startup conference covering Northern Europe and Russia. With some 2500 attendants, 500 startups and dozens of investors, it&#8217;s going to be the best place to see what&#8217;s happening in our region. Industry overviews, insightful workshops, investor meetings, pitching competitions&#8230; you name, we got it.</p>
<div><strong>How do startups find investors at Slush? <a href="http://soink.se/slush-warmup-interview/attached-message-part/" rel="attachment wp-att-880"><img class="alignright  wp-image-880" title="Attached Message Part" src="/wp-content/uploads/Attached-Message-Part.jpg" alt="" width="384" height="576" /></a></strong></div>
<p>The best way is to participate in the Startup Tracks that suit your startup best.</p>
<p>The <strong>lightweight</strong> track is a pitching competition for idea stage startups which will have investors giving feedback to the startups.<br />
The <strong>middleweight</strong> track is for those who&#8217;ve already been around for a short while and gained some traction and are looking to do 1on1 sessions with investors.<br />
The <strong>heavyweight</strong> is for those who are already doing the hockey-stick growth and want to attract talent, get exposure and talk about big-time investment rounds.</p>
<p>Of course applying and getting into the next Startup Sauna Fall 2012 batch is a way to get shortlisted to Slush and meet these investors. The Open Application (via Skype) is<strong> open until early October</strong> and you can find more here through <a href="http://startupsauna.submittable.com/" target="_blank">http://startupsauna.submittable.com</a></p>
<div><strong>What do think about the Nordic climate for entrepreneurship?</strong></div>
<p>It feels like there&#8217;s a lot of good things happening. We now have &#8220;enough&#8221; examples of successful startups hailing from our region and people are starting to understand our strengths against, for example, those in Silicon Valley. At the same time entrepreneurs are growing in confidence in terms of having big and bold visions for their companies and, as the mass of startups have grown, even the public decision makers have started to listen to what should be done in order to make the Nordics better for startups.</p>
<p>Even if there would be hard times ahead we have never had such an atmosphere and networks for building great companies.</p>
<div><strong>Any other tips for Swedish startups?</strong></div>
<p><a style="color: #005580; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://soink.se/slush-warmup-interview/miki-kuusi-_-peter-vesterbacka/" rel="attachment wp-att-881"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-881" title="Miki Kuusi _ Peter Vesterbacka" src="/wp-content/uploads/Miki-Kuusi-_-Peter-Vesterbacka.jpg" alt="" width="368" height="246" /></a></p>
<p>Sweden has traditionally always been ahead in terms of successful entrepreneurs and wealth available for them. There&#8217;s some quick changes going on in the other countries in the region and some amazing talent that&#8217;s hustling like never before. Countries like Sweden and Finland really needs to keep up their heads, make sure they&#8217;re not left behind in being the leading startup countries and driving the necessary changes to make this happen. That means that Swedish startups need to get out of the country, get out there, get people to know them and never stop thinking that just because we&#8217;ve created these great companies in the past it would mean they keep popping up in the future too. Never settle for what is and always be ready to create what will be. <img src='http://soink.se/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<strong>Thanks, best of luck and see you at Slush in November!</strong><br />
(Pictures copyrighted to Reeti Saarinen)</p>
<p>Slush event on SOINK: <a href="http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/slush/">http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/slush/</a><br />
Slush website: <a href="http://slush.fi/en/">http://slush.fi/en/</a><br />
Startup Sauna website: <a href="http://startupsauna.com/en/">http://startupsauna.com/en/</a></p>
<p>Startup Sauna appication: <a href="http://startupsauna.submittable.com/" target="_blank">http://startupsauna.submittable.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://startupsauna.com/en/">  </a></p>
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		<title>Startup: A training program to jumpstart your business idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Fuchs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img id="stingLogo" src="http://www.stockholminnovation.com/sting/media/images/stinglogo.png" alt="STING, Stockholm innovation and growth" /></p> <p>Do you have an innovative business idea aimed at a larger international market? Are you a researcher, innovator or entrepreneur wondering whether to invest in your idea or are you unsure of how to do it? Then STING&#8217;s Startup program is for you! The program starts Nov 8th.</p> <p>More info: <a href="http://www.stockholminnovation.com/EN/497/startup">http://www.stockholminnovation.com/EN/497/startup</a> Apply now (<strong>Deadline Oct 14th</strong>): <a href="http://www.stockholminnovation.com/EN/502/apply-to-startup">http://www.stockholminnovation.com/EN/502/apply-to-startup</a></p>]]></description>
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<p>Do you have an innovative business idea aimed at a larger international market? Are you a researcher, innovator or entrepreneur wondering whether to invest in your idea or are you unsure of how to do it? Then STING&#8217;s Startup program is for you!<br />
The program starts Nov 8th.</p>
<p>More info: <a href="http://www.stockholminnovation.com/EN/497/startup">http://www.stockholminnovation.com/EN/497/startup</a><br />
Apply now (<strong>Deadline Oct 14th</strong>): <a href="http://www.stockholminnovation.com/EN/502/apply-to-startup">http://www.stockholminnovation.com/EN/502/apply-to-startup</a></p>
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		<title>An article about SOINK in Stockholm IT Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Fuchs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img title="Stockholm IT Region - Hem" src="http://sv.stockholmitregion.com/files/2011/04/BILD_F1-940x187.jpg" alt="Stockholm IT Region - Hem" width="658" height="131" /></p> <p>Niklas Rudemo was interviewed by <a href="http://stockholmitregion.com/">Stockholm IT Region</a> about SOINK and got a chance to add some tips about some interesting upcoming events for entrepreneurs. They are all of course available in the SOINK event database!</p> <p>Check out the full interview here: Swedish: <a href="http://sv.stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/">http://sv.stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/</a></p> <p>English: <a href="http://stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/" target="_blank">http://stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/</a><a href="http://stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/"></p> <p></a></p>]]></description>
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<p>Niklas Rudemo was interviewed by <a href="http://stockholmitregion.com/">Stockholm IT Region</a> about SOINK and got a chance to add some tips about some interesting upcoming events for entrepreneurs. They are all of course available in the SOINK event database!</p>
<p>Check out the full interview here:<br />
Swedish: <a href="http://sv.stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/">http://sv.stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/</a></p>
<p>English: <a href="http://stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/" target="_blank">http://stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/</a><a href="http://stockholmitregion.com/2012/09/04/soink-swedish-open-innovation-network/"></p>
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		<title>A warm-up chat with the KTH Student Incubator managers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Fuchs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://soink.se/a-warm-up-chat-with-the-kth-student-incubator-managers/student_inc-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-795"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-795" title="student_inc" src="/wp-content/uploads/student_inc1-300x129.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="129" /></a> KTH Student Inc. is hot like fire right now with lots of startups getting heavy media attention. SOINK had the privilege to get a quick chat with Jonatan Mindell Kidanu and Henrik Lundblad, Managers of KTH Student Inc. <a href="http://soink.se/a-warm-up-chat-with-the-kth-student-incubator-managers/student-inc/" rel="attachment wp-att-796"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-796" title="Student Inc" src="/wp-content/uploads/Student-Inc.jpg" alt="" width="436" height="287" /></a> <strong>Hi guys! Tell us short about the <a class="readmore" href="http://soink.se/a-warm-up-chat-with-the-kth-student-incubator-managers/">read more</a>]]></description>
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<div>KTH Student Inc. is hot like fire right now with lots of startups getting heavy media attention. SOINK had the privilege to get a quick chat with Jonatan Mindell Kidanu and Henrik Lundblad, Managers of KTH Student Inc.</div>
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<div><strong>Hi guys! Tell us short about the Student Incubator at KTH and </strong><strong>whats going on.</strong></div>
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<div>We help student tech-startups grow and succeed with their business. We provide <strong>office space</strong>, <strong>network</strong>, <strong>business coaching</strong>, <strong>events</strong> and<strong> training-courses</strong>. Student Inc. is based on a collaboration between the entrepreneurship organization <a href="http://www.excitera.se">Excitera</a> and <a href="http://kth.se/innovation">KTH Innovation</a>. We give young startups all the tools they need to succeed!</div>
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<div><strong>Can anyone apply to Student Inc.?</strong></div>
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<p>Anyone with a core team of KTH students and a technology based business idea can apply for seats in Student Inc.</p>
<div><strong>What´s up in September?</strong></div>
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<div>September is the start of a new year at KTH Student Inc., we want people to be aware of that. To raise awareness we will host three kick-off events, September 3, 10, and 17.</div>
<div>The events will be packed with a lot of good stuff, as usual. Visitors will be able to learn more about Student Inc., meet our startups, and hear what&#8217;s going on in the tech-sector from partners such as Microsoft, Blackberry &amp; RIM, and PayPal.</div>
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<div><strong>Why are you doing three events?</strong></div>
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<p>One event is simply not enough to show the community all the exciting things we&#8217;ve got going in the incubator at the moment!</p>
<div><strong><a href="http://soink.se/a-warm-up-chat-with-the-kth-student-incubator-managers/hoodie/" rel="attachment wp-att-840"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-840" title="hoodie" src="/wp-content/uploads/hoodie-222x300.jpg" alt="" width="222" height="300" /></a>What can the visitors expect and does it cost anything?</strong></div>
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<p>Visitors can expect an evening of insight into the growing startup community at KTH. The events will be a good chance to learn more about what great opportunities are out there and network with interesting people. The events are free of charge but seats are limited, so hurry up putting your name on the guest list at <a href="http://www.studentity.se/" target="_blank">Studentity.se</a>!</p>
<div><strong>Tell us short about the workshops you are hosting each month at KTH campus.</strong></div>
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<p>Every month we host exciting workshops to stimulate the startups in KTH Student Inc.. We invite some of the most interesting entrepreneurs and tech experts out there to make sure <em>our startups have all the tools they need.</em></p>
<div><strong>Can you give any short tips to student entrepreneurs wanting to start a company?</strong></div>
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<div>Get connected to people who have the knowledge you need to build your business!</div>
<div><strong>Thanks guys and good luck with the upcoming events! </strong></div>
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<div><strong>Links</strong></div>
<div>Student Inc. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/KTHStudentInc">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/kthstudentincubator">Facebook </a>and <a href="http://www.kth.se/en/innovation/studentinc/studentinc-1.281150">website</a>.</div>
<div>Soink link and registration to event #1: <a href="http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/kth-student-inc-kick-off-with-blackberry-rim/">http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/kth-student-inc-kick-off-with-blackberry-rim/</a></div>
<div>Soink link and registration to event #2: <a href="http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/kth-student-inc-kick-off-with-microsoft/">http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/kth-student-inc-kick-off-with-microsoft/</a></div>
<div>Soink link and registration to event #3: Coming soon!</div>
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		<title>Drivhusets förinkubatorprogram, ansök nu!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Fuchs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://soink.se/?attachment_id=778" rel="attachment wp-att-778"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-778" title="drivhuset" src="/wp-content/uploads/drivhuset.jpg" alt="" width="363" height="72" /></a></p> Nu söker Drivhuset engagerade entreprenörer! <p><strong>Sök redan idag!</strong></p> <p>I början av oktober startar Drivhusets Förinkubatorprogram. Nu söker vi engagerade entreprenörer, främst söder om stan och runt Farsta med omnejd, som vill ta chansen att utvecklas i en kreativ miljö tillsammans med andra. Under programmet får du tillgång till vårt nätverk och en utbildningsprocess som stärker dig som <a class="readmore" href="http://soink.se/drivhusets-forinkubatorprogram-ansok-nu/">read more</a>]]></description>
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<h1>Nu söker Drivhuset engagerade entreprenörer!</h1>
<p><strong>Sök redan idag!</strong></p>
<p>I början av oktober startar Drivhusets Förinkubatorprogram. Nu söker vi engagerade entreprenörer, främst söder om stan och runt Farsta med omnejd, som vill ta chansen att utvecklas i en kreativ miljö tillsammans med andra. Under programmet får du tillgång till vårt nätverk och en utbildningsprocess som stärker dig som företagare.</p>
<p><strong>Vem riktar sig programmet till?<br />
</strong>Till dig som har kommit på en idé, är i startfas eller en liten bit in i ditt företagande. Du har en produkt eller en tjänst som du vill sälja och kanske håller du på att strukturera upp din idé och din verksamhet just nu. Du har också ambitionen att utveckla ditt företag vidare.</p>
<p><strong>Vad ger det dig som entreprenör?</strong><br />
Utbildningen ska stimulera och ge dig verktygen och självförtroendet att ta ditt företag och affärsidéer till nya höjder.</p>
<p><strong>Arbetssätt och omfattning<br />
</strong>Programmet pågår under tre månader. Under denna tid genomgår du fyra utbildningsfaser med ett antal praktiska <a href="http://stockholm.drivhuset.se/icms/schema.html">workshops</a> och diskussionsforum där ni som deltagare får hjälpa varandra i utvecklingsarbetet. Syftet är att ni ska ha en klar och tydlig förståelse för hur processen kring att identifiera och utveckla en affärsidé går till. Alla deltagare erbjuds även vägledning under och efter programmet av Drivhusets affärsutvecklare.</p>
<p>Programmet är inte en heltidssysselsättning utan tanken är att du ska ha möjliget att studera, driva företag eller arbeta samtidigt som du genomgår programmet. Stor del av tiden är eget arbete mellan gångerna vi ses.</p>
<p><strong>Nationellt nätverk</strong><br />
Förutom det nätverk som byggs upp kring den lokala miljön där du genomgår programmet får du även tillgång till kompetens och kontakter på alla orter där Drivhuset finns representerade. Du får möjlighet att boka möten och arbetsplatser samt träffa nya kollegor på 12 orter i Sverige.</p>
<p><strong>Det här säger en tidigare deltagare om programmet:<br />
</strong>&#8220;<em>Drivhusets förinkubatorsprogram var den push jag behövde då jag gick från anställning till egenföretagare. Programmet har gett struktur, energi och kvalitet till min uppstartsprocess, och kommer att ha en långsiktig effekt på utvecklingen av mitt företag. Det har också effektiviserat och underlättat min etablering på orten.</em>&#8220; <strong>Josefin Uhnbom, Food For Thought</strong></p>
<p>Mer info och ansökan: <a href="http://stockholm.drivhuset.se/icms/forinkubatorprogram_1.html">http://stockholm.drivhuset.se/icms/forinkubatorprogram_1.html</a></p>
<p>SOINK event: <a href="http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/drivhusets-forinkubatorprogram/">http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/drivhusets-forinkubatorprogram/</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Fuchs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://soink.se/gratis-online-sommarkurs-for-nyforetagare-start-idag/logo-startitup-original/" rel="attachment wp-att-583"><img class="size-medium wp-image-583 alignleft" title="logo-startitup-original" src="/wp-content/uploads/logo-startitup-original-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a> Startitup &#8211; En online sommarskola för startups första lektion börjar idag, 24 juni. Starta internet företag i sommar! Vi har gjort det själva. Startat ett företag på ett sommarlov, fått det att flyga, känna den motiverande känslan av att lyckas åstadkomma något helt själv. Nu vill vi få många andra att få uppleva samma sak. Tio veckor, <a class="readmore" href="http://soink.se/gratis-online-sommarkurs-for-nyforetagare-start-idag/">read more</a>]]></description>
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Startitup &#8211; En online sommarskola för startups första lektion börjar idag, 24 juni.<br />
Starta internet företag i sommar! Vi har gjort det själva. Startat ett företag på ett sommarlov, fått det att flyga, känna den motiverande känslan av att lyckas åstadkomma något helt själv. Nu vill vi få många andra att få uppleva samma sak. Tio veckor, ett sommarlov och sedan har man kommit igång med sitt entreprenörskap. Det behöver inte vara svårare än så!</p>
<p>Startitup är en digital och gratis sommarkurs där man får ett epost en gång per vecka i 10 veckor med en eller flera uppgifter tillsammans med videoföreläsningar, textguider och rådgivning. Tanken är att om man gör dessa uppgifter så har man en betaversion av sitt företag igång efter dessa 10 veckor. Uppgifterna tar ca 5-10 h / vecka och deltagarna behöver inga förkunskaper.</p>
<p>VARFÖR REGISTRERA SIG?</p>
<ul>
<li>1. Det är gratis</li>
<li>2. Det är bara 10 veckor</li>
<li>3. Det är superenkelt</li>
<li>4. Det enda du behöver är en dator &amp; internet</li>
<li>5. Det kommer bli superkul!</li>
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<p>Registrering: <a href="http://startitup.se/registrera-dig/">http://startitup.se/registrera-dig/</a></p>
<p>Mer info: <a href="http://startitup.se/">http://startitup.se</a></p>
<p>SOINK event: <a href="http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/startitup-se-free-online-sommarkurs-i-entreprenorskap/">http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/startitup-se-free-online-sommarkurs-i-entreprenorskap/</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 22:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Fuchs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://soink.se/matchnhack-warmup-interview/mnhlondon/" rel="attachment wp-att-526"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-526" title="matchNhack" src="/wp-content/uploads/mnhlondon-300x100.png" alt="" width="300" height="100" /></a></p> <p><img class="size-medium wp-image-605 alignright" title="Poster" src="/wp-content/uploads/bild4-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></p> <p>matchNhack was an event at KTH that created new contacts for business and employment,  good seminars and a great hackathon.</p> <p>Here follows an interview with Siavash Ghorbani from the winning team of the hackathon, their web service and how to go viral in just a few hours. <a class="readmore" href="http://soink.se/matchnhack-stockholm-aftermath/">read more</a>]]></description>
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<p>matchNhack was an event at KTH that created new contacts for business and employment,  good seminars and a great hackathon.</p>
<p>Here follows an interview with Siavash Ghorbani from the winning team of the hackathon, their web service and how to go viral in just a few hours. Enjoy!</p>
<p><strong>Congratulations Team Tictail to the </strong><strong>first prize! How does it feel?</strong></p>
<p>Thank you! We were super excited about the immediate response we received for the service, and were absolutely thrilled to be able to share the experience live on stage. It should be common sense by now that the internet is quite immediate, but it&#8217;s a different feeling when it becomes so obvious as you go from idea to live product to a traffic surge in two hours.</p>
<p><strong>Tell us a bit about your personal background and the Tictail team.<br />
</strong>(The Tictail team at matchNhack consisted of, <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/martinmelin" target="_blank">Martin Melin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/birk" target="_blank">Birk Nilson</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/tiwilliam" target="_blank">William Tisäter</a> and interviewee<a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/siavashg" target="_blank"> Siavash Ghorbani</a>)</p>
<div>My <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/siavashg" target="_blank">background</a> is probably quite similar to most techies born in the middle of the 80&#8242;s. I loved Lego and NES, replaced that with computers and found myself in piles of code. I started programming at 12, initially with an interest for game development that eventually evolved to the web. I co-founded a consultancy firm while I studied at KTH. We started out by doing very basic web stuff but as we developed so did our projects. We did several data analysis projects for Stockholms International Peace Research Institute so I like to claim that I&#8217;ve worked for world peace.</div>
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<div>After KTH I ended up at Blocket, where I met William Tisäter who was the first <a href="http://tictail.tumblr.com/post/18439077525/presenting-william-tisater" target="_blank">employee</a> of Tictail and an amazing person. William worked as a system administrator and later DBA at Blocket, but did a lot of programming on his spare time. You could say he has the perfect skill set for a tech startup looking for someone diverse who can do anything from managing servers, coding your API to fixing your CSS.</div>
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<div>How I met Birk is a <a href="http://tictail.tumblr.com/post/7804109240/blocket-tech-lead-siavash-ghorbani-joins-tictail" target="_blank">story</a> on it&#8217;s own. The first time I came in contact with Tictail was with Birk. We spent at least an hour on the phone discussing web technologies and entrepreneurship before we decided we should meet up the next day.</div>
<div>Birk is an absolutely brilliant developer and person. He too got in to programming early on, initially with frontend web development, but quickly extended this to anything within backend development as well. Before co-founding Tictail, Birk worked as a technical team lead at Stardoll for their social games team.</div>
<div>The first time I met <a href="http://tictail.tumblr.com/post/24679940285/martin-melin-joins-tictail" target="_blank">Martin</a> was during his summer internship at Blocket. Martin quickly became famous as the guy who fastest understood the Blocket template language. When I called him two months ago he was back at Linköping University finishing his studies in Innovative Programming and was planning to come back to Stockholm during the summer. Two minutes in on the phone call and we both understood that this would be a perfect match. A couple of days later Martin spent a full week working with us at Tictail to ensure our launch for the strict deadline at Nordic E-commerce summit. By the end of the week there was no question about it,  Martin had to be a permanent part of our team. He is not only an amazing developer but also very knowledgeable in strategic and organizational topics.</div>
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<p><strong>What did you develop during the hackathon and how viral did it go?<em><a href="http://soink.se/matchnhack-stockholm-aftermath/bild2/" rel="attachment wp-att-601"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-601" title="bild(2)" src="/wp-content/uploads/bild2-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a></em></strong></p>
<p>We started out by joking about how ridiculous those Hot or Not services are where you compare two people and decide which one is hottest. We started discussing dumb things to compare but eventually we ended up discussing what we ourselves thought would be really fun to use; A service where you could compare two snippets of code and decide which one is the &#8220;hottest&#8221;. So in short, we made <a href="http://gistlicious.com/" target="_blank">hot or not for code</a>.</p>
<p>At that moment the service spread quite quickly, we had a couple of thousand uniques within an hour after the presentation. We ended up on the first page of hacker news right before the presentation, which was quite cool.</p>
<div><strong>Why do you think that your team won the hackathon?<em><a href="http://soink.se/matchnhack-stockholm-aftermath/bild3-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-606"><img class="size-medium wp-image-606 alignleft" title="bild(3)" src="/wp-content/uploads/bild31-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a></em></strong></div>
<div>Either we touched a sweet spot with an audience of hackers, or that the other attendants thought it was as inspiring as we did, to see that it is possible to create a service in such a short time frame and immediately reach an audience.</div>
<div><strong>The theme for the hackathon was virality and why is this topic so important?</strong></div>
<div><strong></strong>The way I see it, from a startup perspective, you have one priority and that is growth and virality is the current way of competing in growth with more established competitors that are pouring money and time into traditional channels. I think it&#8217;s difficult to take a mature product and attach virality as a tool to it. There simply is no virality angel dust and this leaves room for new services to investigate and develop these mechanisms in their product from the get go and compete on different terms. If you are building a consumer service today and have no viral mechanisms you should take a good look at your service, because chances are that you&#8217;ll competing with competitors with bigger pockets than yours today and competitors with a far higher virality tomorrow.</div>
<div><strong>What tips can you give anyone who is trying to make projects go viral?<em><a href="http://soink.se/matchnhack-stockholm-aftermath/bild7/" rel="attachment wp-att-625"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-625" title="bild(7)" src="/wp-content/uploads/bild7-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a></em></strong></div>
<div>The end goal of virality to attract growth at a low cost. Five years ago, that mechanisms was called search engine optimization and before that I don&#8217;t know, hype maybe?</div>
<div>My point is that in the end all these relate to one thing, and that is your product. If your product is great and provides great value for your customers they will willingly spread it, you should however ensure that this functionality is a core part of your product, and that doesn&#8217;t mean share buttons on everything. If your product is great people will write about it, link to it and push your search rank, you should however make sure you provide accurate content for these searches. The same goes with hype, people love to tell their friends how awesome something they enjoy using is, you should however help them with a couple of catchy phrases.</div>
<div>In short, your tool to compete is first of all a great product and this product should have the said mechanisms built into it&#8217;s backbones.</div>
<div>Thanks to the creators of matchNhack and to Siavash along with the Tictail team!</div>
<div>matchNhack website: <a href="http://stockholm.matchnhack.com/" target="_blank">http://stockholm.matchnhack.com/</a><br />
SOINK event link: <a href="http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/matchnhack/">http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/matchnhack/</a></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://soink.se/health-hack-day-aftermath/hhd/" rel="attachment wp-att-715"><img class="alignnone wp-image-715" title="HHD" src="/wp-content/uploads/HHD.jpg" alt="" width="532" height="200" /></a></p> <p><a style="color: #005580; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://soink.se/health-hack-day-aftermath/bild8/" rel="attachment wp-att-720"><img class="size-medium wp-image-720 alignleft" title="bild(8)" src="/wp-content/uploads/bild8-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a></p> <p><strong>Health Hack Day 2012 was great! </strong>The outcome of HHD 2012 was best described in their own words:</p> <p>&#8220;We at <a href="http://hoastoolshop.com/">Hoa’s Tool Shop</a> and <a href="http://psykologifabriken.se/">Psykologifabriken</a> want to give a huge thank you to all our partners, speakers and contestants. Our aim with Health <a class="readmore" href="http://soink.se/health-hack-day-aftermath/">read more</a>]]></description>
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<p><strong>Health Hack Day 2012 was great!<br />
</strong>The outcome of HHD 2012 was best described in their own words:</p>
<p>&#8220;We at <a href="http://hoastoolshop.com/">Hoa’s Tool Shop</a> and <a href="http://psykologifabriken.se/">Psykologifabriken</a> want to give a huge thank you to all our partners, speakers and contestants. Our aim with Health Hack Day has been to show the world the potential in health hacking and creating digital health services. If we once again have a look at the statistics I’m comfortable in saying that we succeeded. During the weekend we got 110 pictures on <a href="http://healthhackday.com/stockholm2012/health-hack-day-in-instagram-pics/">instagram with the hashtag hhd12</a>. There were a total of 466 unique mentions of #hhd12 and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/healthhackday">@healthhackday</a> on twitter and so far I’ve been interviewed by three nationwide radio stations, Sweden’s biggest newspaper and three health/tech magazines.&#8221;</p>
<p>During Saturday, SOINK got a chance to pitch our services to the HHD hackathon participants. We got a chance to talk about Open Innovation and how important it is to get people together with different minds, different professions and different industries/backgrounds to create new innovative solutions and solve important problems. Fortunately this was exactly what Health Hack Day was all about. Developers and representatives from the health care industry got a unique chance to exchange thoughts and in a creative environment develop new and disruptive solutions aimed at the health care industry. Open Innovation is all about getting good people together and leverage the combined creativity. 1+1=10!</p>
<p><a href="http://soink.se/health-hack-day-aftermath/bild9/" rel="attachment wp-att-719"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-719" title="bild(9)" src="/wp-content/uploads/bild9-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a>A quote from the HHD press release: &#8220;During the weekend of 18-20 May the first edition of Health Hack Day was arranged in Stockholm, Sweden. Ten teams of developers got 24 hours to develop a prototype of a new tool for digital healthcare. Among the contributions were an diary-like app for parents of prematurely born babies, a XBOX Kinect based tool for motoric tests designed for patients suffering from Parkinsons disease, and an app that makes it more fun to keep track on how your wellbeing is affected by what you eat.&#8221;</p>
<p>The weekend was initiated, hosted and arranged by <a href="http://www.psykologifabriken.se/">Psykologifabriken</a> and <a href="http://www.hoastoolshop.com/" target="_blank">Hoa´s Tool Shop</a> together with about 10 partner organisations (see <a href="http://healthhackday.com/stockholm2012/smartphone-app-for-urine-samples-won-health-hack-day/" target="_blank">pressrelease</a> for more<br />
info). The competing teams worked hard during the hackathon and made some fantastic products ready for the final day where they had to pitch in front of an audience of industry professionals and an expert jury with tons of experience.</p>
<p>Winner of the competition was a project created by Marcin Ignac, Ian Jørgensen and Pau Ramon Revilla called <a href="http://www.linehq.com/piddle">PIDDLE</a>. Here´s their winning pitch: <a href="http://youtu.be/F6_qW6TWE10">F6_qW6TWE10</a></p>
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<p>Description: A smartphone app for urinsample analysis, which in time could be a replacement for the complex analysis equipment of today, and create the possibilty for both sampling and analysis at home. Piddle uses the smartphone camera to analyze the test. The app saves the data, visualizes it and makes it possible to share the results with the treating doctor.</p>
<div>The jury’s motivation: A simple but extremly innovative concept the has the potential of making it on a global market.Thanks to everyone involved in the arrangement and to all participating teams!</div>
<div>SOINK is looking forward to provide with some coaching to all teams. HHD final words and price ceremony video: <a href="http://healthhackday.com/stockholm2012/thank-you-all-this-was-health-hack-day-2012/">http://healthhackday.com/stockholm2012/thank-you-all-this-was-health-hack-day-2012/</a></div>
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<div>SOINK event: <a href="http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/health-hack-day-2012/">http://soink.se/ai1ec_event/health-hack-day-2012/</a></div>
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<p>HHD webpage (all videos and interviews): <a href="http://healthhackday.com/stockholm2012/">http://healthhackday.com/stockholm2012/<br />
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