Apple has posted the official video of “Apple Campus 2”, which is their oddly-shaped UFO headquarters in Cupertino, California. The mothership, as the circular building is called, was designed with Stanford in mind. By this Apple is taking innovation to the office space with a construction that will house 13,000 employees. In the video late Steve … Read more
Startup (or business) accelerators, like Y Combinator and TechStars, have become very important in the tech landscape the recent years. They are not only in Silicon Valley, they are all over the place – both in the U.S. and spread around the world. Which country doesn’t have accelerators? But the big question is: Where are the … Read more
Apple released the first Macintosh 30 years ago today; January 24th. That’s really something to celebrate. 30 years of the Mac computer. 30 years of innovation. Or should I say disruption? You can read about this anniversary all over Internet, and there is no need for me to write a long article about this magnificent … Read more
I had the pleasure to attend a panel at an event arranged by Silicon Vikings Oslo Chapter on October 16th. The headline was “Silicon Vikings Valley Night” with John Montgomery, Jennifer Vessels and Eva Bjørseth as speakers and panelists. Great people from Silicon Valley. I wasn’t part of this, not until the day before when I met Tone S. Ringstad, … Read more
Den 7. til 10. mai inviterer Innovasjon Norge til en spennende næringslivsdelegasjon til The Bay Area som finner sted i anledning DD.KK.HH. Kronprins Haakon og Kronprinsesse Mette-Marit sitt offisielle besøk til USA. The Bay Area er området rundt San Francisco og Silicon Valley i California på USAs vestkyst. På sine nettsider for denne delegasjonen skriver … Read more
Once again, and for the fifth time the last year, I’m back in the Bay Area. This time I’ve spent a week here arriving on March 18th and heading back to Norway one week later. The main reason for coming here was to attend ITSEF 2013 held for the 7th time. It’s a IT Security conference … Read more
Jeg satt nærmest i mine egne tanker og surret litt rundt på nettet i går, og vane tro var jeg innom Twitter for å se siste nytt, følge med og sjekke mulig interaksjon. Og der så jeg følgende tweet: Jeg kjenner Anne, og hun er den eminente lederen for Innovation Norway i San Francisco & … Read more
A couple of days ago my inbox was filled with emails without me expecting it. All of a sudden there were hundreds of emails on my iPhone. What is happening late at night on a Tuesday, I wondered. And it just happened when I attended the Norwegian Nordic Startup Awards at Mesh in Oslo arranged … Read more
A couple of weeks ago Ensafer was launched at DEMO Fall 2012 in Silicon Valley – as I have written in an earlier blog post. And this is how I described Ensafer there: “Ensafer is an encryption service for the Cloud, and it offers users of Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, Google Drive and alike to encrypt their … Read more
Ønsker du å lære hvordan du selger inn ditt budskap, engasjerer tilhørere og skaper interesse fra kunder og investorer på 30 sekunder? Kan du tenke deg å lære hva som er de viktigste feilene man gjør i presentasjoner? Ønsker du å trene inn ditt eget budskap – og bli overrasket over hvor enkelt det kan … Read more