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		<title>Signs of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think we had been buried hundreds of meters under Chilean rock, or at least the heavy rain, we&#8217;ve been getting in Copenhagen, but that&#8217;s far from true. And a good thing too, because things are heating up here in Copenhagen. A couple of weeks ago, Hoist changed its name to Podio, and announced it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;d think we had been buried hundreds of meters under Chilean rock, or at least the heavy rain, we&#8217;ve been getting in Copenhagen, but that&#8217;s far from true. And a good thing too, because things are heating up here in Copenhagen. A couple of weeks ago, Hoist changed its name to <a href="http://podio.com/">Podio</a>, and announced it had received funding from Tommy Ahlers, who also stepped in to take over the CEO position. Having worked for Tommy previously, I can only congratulate Hoist on having him along for, what is going to be a thrilling ride.<br />
Podio made quite a splash of the name change, even making it to The New York Times online edition, and what we heard at the party to celebrate the new name and new organisation was really promising. Crisp pitch, and aggressive plans. </p>
<p>And just today, the news is out everywhere, that Memolane got <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/13/memolane-raises-2-million-to-become-your-digital-memory/">some serious funding</a> to build &#8220;our digital memory&#8221; which could mean anything really. Apparently, the project has been re-based from Copenhagen to Silicon Valley, but some of the <a href="http://twitter.com/ichverstehe">local</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/nikstep">power</a> behind the original demo is still on board and still based in Denmark, as far as I can tell.<br />
Eric Lagier, who is heading up Memolane was previously at Skype, and the funding for Memolane comes from the investment arm of Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, as well as one of the original Skype investors. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s good to see some action, some funding and some attention funneling into Copenhagen. Clearly not the time to give up on Wide Antenna, so I&#8217;m going to try to kick it back into gear.</p>
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		<title>Add your startup to the list</title>
		<link>http://wideantenna.com/2010/06/07/add-your-startup-to-the-list/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hampus Jakobsson is compiling a list of Øresund-startups over here, and you should add your startup there. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://twitter.com/hajak">Hampus Jakobsson</a> is compiling a list of Øresund-startups <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArAR4KuXOfltdElyNHVNRFBVZDgtSW9weUFpX2daZmc&#038;hl=en#gid=0">over here</a>, and you should add your startup there. </p>
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		<title>If you can make it there, you&#8217;ll make it anywhere</title>
		<link>http://wideantenna.com/2010/06/06/if-you-can-make-it-there-youll-make-it-anywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That used to be the refrain of New York City. However, when it comes to internet startups, New York is much like any other place. Last year Chris Dixon, NY-based cofounder of Hunch, wrote that New York needs its own TechCrunch. A blog to build up the awareness of the local scene. Much like we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That used to be the refrain of New York City. However, when it comes to internet startups, New York is much like any other place. Last year Chris Dixon, NY-based cofounder of <a href="http://hunch.com">Hunch</a>, <a href="http://cdixon.org/2009/09/03/new-york-city-needs-a-tech-startup-blog/">wrote</a> that New York needs its own TechCrunch. A blog to build up the awareness of the local scene. Much like we&#8217;re planning to here for the Øresund-region, shortly. A few months later, here&#8217;s Dixon&#8217;s Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake with another <a href="http://www.caterina.net/archive/001227.html">familiar message</a>:<br />
<blockquote>And Matt is absolutely right that what New York really needs right now is a Billion Dollar Company &#8212; an eBay or a Google or a PayPal or a Facebook &#8212; and an exit that releases all the people working there from their obligations and frees them to go forth and start new companies.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you were at TechCrunch Nordic week before last, you would have heard something very similar about Copenhagen.<br />
Fake wrote in response to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/face-it-nyc-is-not-the-best-place-for-a-startup-2010-2">this post</a>, which basically gives in to Valley-envy, enumerating all the reasons <i>not</i> to be in New York, if you&#8217;re doing a startup.</p>
<p>The point from a Copenhagen perspective is obvious: If even a vibrant place like New York has Valley-envy, <i>any</i> place can suffer from Valley-envy, which makes our local edition of Valley-envy (&#8220;the investors/business plans/techies are not ambitious enough&#8221;) seem laughably irrelevant. </p>
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		<title>Twitterquotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 10:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Nordic VC complained about quality in Danish startups to me today. Too incremental &#038; poor global potential. Let&#8217;s change that.

from @arnewinther
New TechStars Global Affiliate in Copenhagen  &#8211; Startupbootcamp &#8211; now accepting applications! 
from @techstars
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Top Nordic VC complained about quality in Danish startups to me today. Too incremental &#038; poor global potential. Let&#8217;s change that.
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from <a href="http://twitter.com/arnewinther/status/14379940066">@arnewinther</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>New TechStars Global Affiliate in Copenhagen  &#8211; Startupbootcamp &#8211; now <a href="http://startupbootcamp.dk/">accepting applications</a>! </p>
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		<title>Copenhagen Ambition</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tradeshift just launched in the home market in Denmark, and Niels Hartvig of Umbraco was not impressed (link in danish). He is disappointed about the level of completion of the product and the &#8220;hype to reality&#8221; quotient, with the hype end being &#8220;an $80-$100 million valuation&#8221; as leaked to TechCrunch a while back.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="tradeshift.com">Tradeshift</a> just launched in the home market in Denmark, and Niels Hartvig of Umbraco was <a href="http://hartvig.com/2010/5/19/tradeshift_%E2%80%93_symbolet_pa_det_lave_danske_bundniveau.aspx">not impressed</a> (link in danish). He is disappointed about the level of completion of the product and the &#8220;hype to reality&#8221; quotient, with the hype end being &#8220;an $80-$100 million valuation&#8221; as <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/22/tradeshift-is-courting-vcs-on-a-80-100-million-valuation/">leaked to TechCrunch</a> a while back.<br />
But Hartvig goes on with a general bashing of the Copenhagen startup scene and his perception of the level of ambitions of startups in town.<br />
<blockquote>As long as we launch badly, and pat each other&#8217;s backs we won&#8217;t get better. We&#8217;ll keep doing pathetic launches. While we&#8217;re complaining about the lack of risk taking by Danish investors (<i>My translation</i>)</p></blockquote>
<p>Here at Wideantenna we&#8217;re firm believers in launching early, but of course if you do, you need to temper the hype about $100-million valuations. You can&#8217;t do &#8220;modest and early&#8221; <i>and</i> insane valuations. Pick one.</p>
<p>One of the reasons to start writing Wideantenna was to look for ambition. Maybe even seed a little attention, which begets ambition, so this is a topic that is close to our mission here.<br />
Recently Martin von Haller had similar misgivings about Copenhagen in a series of posts on Danish VC. After some initial bashing of the Danish VC-scene, Martin did a <a href="http://www.vonhaller.dk/2010/05/following-up-on-go-west/">follow up post</a> with a more balanced approach, simply pointing out that there is no way we&#8217;re going to build global companies just by working, networking and investing locally. We need skills that are quite simply better elsewhere, so for any startup with global ambition, some kind of jump to Silicon Valley or London or some other major hub is a must on the path to success. People with a strong local base, but limited international base should focus on getting companies ready to make the jump, instead of trying to make it locally. </p>
<p>I have mixed feelings on the issue. At the time of writing the Danish national Ice Hockey Team is amusing the world of Ice Hockey with a series of upsets at the World Cup. This is the same national hockey team that in 1949 set the world record for greatest loss in a world cup hockey match, suffering a 0-47 loss to Canada. And Denmark, in case you don&#8217;t live here, is the non-cold, flat country in Scandinavia. There are 22 hockey rinks in Denmark, less than half of the number just in Stockholm. But still, some very dedicated people managed to cultivate a system of scouting for talent in this very limited pool of available players, and managed to hire some swedes to teach the danes how to win. A handful of players made it to the NHL and the national team has managed to establish itself as a stable in the top tier of nations at the World Cup.<br />
If that&#8217;s possible, clearly Copenhagen can be a hub of innovation, it just takes realism, international ambition and hard work.</p>
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		<title>Retrogaming fra Manomio</title>
		<link>http://wideantenna.com/2010/04/16/retrogaming-fra-manomio/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Der var en del postyr sidste år, da Manomio lancerede Commodore 64 emulatoren til iPhone. Emulatoren i sig selv vakte opsigt &#8211; der er masser af interesse i retrogaming. Og så vakte det en del opsigt da Apple trak appen ud af appstoren efter kun en enkelt dag, hvor den iøvrigt var banket lige ind [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Der var en del <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/21/apple-rejects-commodore-64-emulating-iphone-app-that-coulda-been-a-contender/">postyr</a> sidste år, da <a href="http://c64.manomio.com/">Manomio</a> lancerede Commodore 64 emulatoren til iPhone. Emulatoren i sig selv vakte opsigt &#8211; der er masser af interesse i retrogaming. Og så vakte det en del opsigt da Apple trak appen ud af appstoren efter kun en enkelt dag, hvor den iøvrigt var banket lige ind på appstorens hitlister.<br />
Jeg snakkede torsdag med Brian Lyscarz, CEO i Manomio og baseret i Malmø, ligesom en af Manomios udviklere, om emulatoren, den kaotiske launch og retrogaming.</p>
<p>Idag er emulatoren tilbage i appstoren, efter at være blevet skrevet voldsomt om, for at leve op til Apples krav om ikke at lave åbne platforme som trojanske heste inden i apps. Da emulatoren kom ud første gang, var det en fuld C64 emulator. Man kunne, med lidt snilde, få adgang til et klassisk C64 BASIC konsol og selv kode løs, og det var det, der fik Apple til at se rødt. Efter et redesign eller to, er appen nu helt fokuseret på at levere spiloplevelser kendt fra C64, og mulighederne for at kode selv er væk, og dermed Apples problem med emulatoren.</p>
<p>Appen er gratis i appstoren, og Manomios forretning består i in-app salg af spil, som så også fjerner de reklameskærme man ser i den gratis udgave. Manomio har købt licenser til en lang række klassiske spil til C64, og har langt større planer med retrogaming. Både om at tage C64 emulatoren ud på andre mobilplatforme og at tage fat på andre retroplatforme, som Amiga.</p>
<p>Udover at designe den helt rigtige app, så er der to store hovedpine ved iPhone platformen: Hvordan får man sin app gennem godkendelsesproceduren? Og når det er så er lykkedes, hvordan undgår man så at appen drukner i mængden.</p>
<p>Kampen med godkendelsesprocessen hos Apple er lang, tung og ugennemsigtig. Det er besværligt at få kontakt med screenerne udover de black-box ja/nej svar man får, Der skal lidt snilde og lidt held til, før man får lov at forklare sig ordentligt, så appen ikke bliver afvist for en sikkerheds skyld. Manomios held var endelig at finde frem til en person i Apple, der selv var C64 fan og godt ville slås lidt for at få løst konflikten. Ordet emulator har været en rød klud i processen, men det er lykkedes efter en del snak frem og tilbage at nå en model, hvor appen er lukket nok til Apple, og åben nok til at Manomios in-app salgsproces fungerer.</p>
<p>Det næste problem er så at undgå at drukne i de 100.000 andre apps, der er i storen. Det handler om at få skabt opmærksomhed nok til at man kan bryde ind i appstorens egne hitlister, og så holde sig på dem. For Manomio har konceptet selv &#8211; den første C64 emulator til iPhone &#8211; været stærkt nok til den første lancering, men pga. den kaotiske vej gennem godkendelsesprocessen, mistede man selvfølgelig noget af det originale momentum. For Manomio blev løsningen at gå fra en betalingsmodel til den nuværende med gratis app og in-app salg, via en promotion på et af de store iPhone sites, Freeappaday.<br />
Operationen lykkedes &#8211; på gode dage runder emulatoren 100000 daglige downloads og in-app modellen virker, og genererer en stabil konvertering af gratisbrugere til betalende brugere. Lyscarz vurderer at en iPhone-bruger har en værdi på 0.5$-1$ for Manomio. </p>
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		<title>Startup Weekend</title>
		<link>http://wideantenna.com/2010/04/12/startup-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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For 110 entusiastiske startuppere in spe har den forgangne weekend været ekstra travl. De har været til Copenhagen Startup Weekend, en innovationskonkurrence, hvor man tager ideer fra post-it til fuldt koncept og videre til prototype på bare to en halv dag.
Startup Weekends bliver afholdt rundt om på kloden, og i den forgangne weekend både her [...]]]></description>
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<p>For 110 entusiastiske startuppere in spe har den forgangne weekend været ekstra travl. De har været til <a href="http://copenhagen.startupweekend.org/">Copenhagen Startup Weekend</a>, en innovationskonkurrence, hvor man tager ideer fra post-it til fuldt koncept og videre til prototype på bare to en halv dag.<br />
Startup Weekends bliver afholdt rundt om på kloden, og i den forgangne weekend både her i København med et par søsterarrangmenter rundt omkring, bl.a. i Lund.</p>
<p>Søndag aften var jeg til den afsluttende pitchkonkurrence på Startup Weekend på Nørrebro. Til konkurrencen, med et investorpanel som jury, havde deltagerne fordelt sig på <a href="http://copenhagen.startupweekend.org/2010/04/11/presentation-order/">12 pitches</a>, med stor variation på indholdet. Der var også stor variation i hvor langt de forskellige teams var nået, fra konceptstadiet til &#8220;kørende prototype&#8221;-stadiet. En ting varierede ikke, det var entusiasmen &#8211; den var i top, hele vejen rundt.</p>
<p>Den mest populære type koncept på aftenen var markedsplatforme, for alt fra studenterjobs til bilreparationer &#8211; 6 af de 12 koncepter bød ind på at etablere nye markeder og optræde som mellemmand. Men det blev nu ikke et af markederne, der løb med konkurrencens førstepræmie, men derimod <a href="http://memolane.com">Memolane</a>, en lifestream aggregator med permanent backup og søgning som de væsentlige nye features. </p>
<p>Det økonomiske ambitionsniveau varierede vildt og voldsomt, fra gode ideer, der kan realiseres stort set komplet af weekendens projektteam, op til de mest ambitiøse af markedskoncepterne, der i sagens natur kræver et langt og dyrt forløb med at bygge relationer på begge sider af komplekse globale markeder. Det virkede som om juryen også havde taget den faktor med i den endelige vurdering af vinderen.<br />
Det mest positive ved præsentationerne var næsten at mange af projekterne ikke var så optagede af at nu var de i mål, fordi de var fremme ved pitchet, men mere så søndag aften, som starten på ræset. Held og lykke til dem. </p>
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<p><i>Billeder (c) Niklas Stephenson</i></p>
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		<title>Velkommen til Wide Antenna</title>
		<link>http://wideantenna.com/2010/04/08/hello-world/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Velkommen til Wide Antenna, Københavns nye mikromedium for upstarts i internetbranchen. Du kan læse mere om ideen her.
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