• Organizers


    • Kevin Ohashi Kevin Ohashi

      Bio: Kevin is a Japanese American entrepreneur living in Sweden. He has a MSc in Entrepreneurship from Lund University and is working on an MSc in International Marketing and Brand Management.

      He is currently focused on his outsourcing business, Sourcers.com and has a passion for internet startups. Kevin is responsible for Bank, VC, Business Angel and Incubator Sponsors for the Lund event.


    • Ben Page Ben Page

      Bio: Ben is an entrepreneur with a passion for big ideas. He is currently studying a MSc of Entrepreneurship at Lund University and working on a startup company in cooperation with Mobile Heights.

      Ben draws on experience from living in Canada, France, Korea and now Sweden, to bring fresh ideas and creative solutions. Besides entrepreneurship Ben is passionate about poker, music, and social media.


    • Kim Neel Wyon Kim Neel Wyon

      Bio: Kim is a Business Angel and Serial Entrepreneur. He has held numerous operational and management positions within the various start-ups where he has actively participated.

      Responsibilities have included CEO, CFO, CIO, Partner Sales Director, Public Relations Manager, Marketing Manager, Sales and Team Leader. Industry specific knowledge and references include: Administrative workflow, Content Management, CRM, Cross-media publishing, Database publishing, Internet, Digital Media & Advertising, Retail outlets, Logistics, ERP/ Bookkeeping systems, System integration, Mail order, Media Asset Management, Online media, Outsourcing, Print technology & Web-to-Print. Kim is a member of Connect Denmark, Business Angels Øresund, Danish Venture Capital Association, Danish IT Society, Connect Sweden (Skåne & Stockholm), Swedish Venture Capital Association, Dataföreningen i Sverige and active within several of these organisations.


    • Erik Starck Erik Starck

      Bio: Erik started his first company in 1998 and has been working with the web, mobile and various startups since then. He has a passionate interest in social media and all things disruptive.

      He currently works with Startup Garage (an online toolset for startups) and The Frank Family (guiding companies on the path to Open).


    • Henrik Hedlund Henrik Hedlund

      Bio: H

      enrik is a Consultant, Coach & Entrepreneur working for Optiteam. Henrik offers services as professional counseling, business development and innovation management to entrepreneurs and start-up enterprises, e g within organizations as Connect Skåne, Mobile Heights, Ideon Innovation and MINC. Henrik coaches and mentors within the Human Fidelity consultancy, supporting people in their professional situation, e g career coaching within the Personal Coach Program established by Arbetsförmedlingen in 2009. Works as entrepreneur within the Mobile Heights spinout program for mobile apps innovation.


    • Roberto Cerrato Roberto Cerrato

      Bio: R

      oberto, 25 years old, Italian, graduated in Political Science and International relations, studying in Lund for a two year master programme in Economic growth, innovation and spatial dynamics, graduation June 2010. Since October 2006 till September 2007, he has worked as PR and event coordinator for a NGO, ONMIC, based in Salerno, Italy, with the aim of facilitating social life for older and disable persons. After several experiences abroad working in the tourism sector as waiter, he worked for 3 months, March-May 2008, as business skills co-Teacher in a master course at the Kiev University, Ukraine. Since September 2009, he is an active member of the student association AIESEC, local committee Lund; he has covered the position of “Organizing Committee President” for a four days international conference, based in Lund, with the aim of promoting “Sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation” in the Oresund region. Currently he lives in Lund, working on his final master thesis and being enrolled in several projects for Aiesec Lund, Save the Children Lund volunteer; when not busy with professional and student life tasks, Roberto likes playing piano, drawing and painting, and practise his deejay hobby, playing records in private parties in Lund.


    • Michael Hoy Michael Hoy

      Bio: Michael is an alchemical entrepreneur with a passion for social ventures that add value to peoples' lives. He is currently a Masters student in Entrepreneurship at Lund University working to commercialize technology developed in the Mathematics and Biology department.

      Following a successful stint working on the Obama campaign, Michael decided on a move to Sweden where social values are the norm and not the exception. See the full story at michaelhoy.info


    • Patrik Gullstrand Patrik Gullstrand

      Bio: P

      atrik's background includes: Open source, entrepreneur, pattern breaking, Startup Garage (an online toolset for startups), The Frank Family and

Startup Weekend videos

Posted by Alex Farcet

Here’s a brand new video which gives a really good feel of what Startup Weekends are about:

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And here’s another from the 2009 Bay Area (San Francisco) Startup Weekend:

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Lund Startup Weekend

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Welcome to the most exciting startup event throughout the Nordics in 2010!

On April 9th, Startup Weekends are running simultaneously in Lund, Copenhagen, Stockholm (April 16th), Olso, Vilnius & Kaunas.

Startup Weekends are a unique, fun and effective way of testing your startup idea. Convince the crowd that yours is one of the best ideas and you’ll get to work with coders, designers, marketeers, lawyers and others from Friday to Sunday evening.

The events start on Friday evening with anyone pitching their idea. The crowd then votes on the best pitches and teams are formed around the winning ideas. Teams then work through to Sunday evening where final pitches are made.

Startup Weekends were created by startupweekend.org, a non-profit organisation based in Seattle and are co-hosted in the Nordics  Optiteam (a network of Business Angels) and Startupbootcamp (a Copenhagen-based, Techstars-inspired 3 month startup creation program).

Local collaborational partners in each city (Lund, Stockholm, Copenhagen, etc.) help make this a fantastic experience by attracting relevant participants.

If you are a potential Partner, Sponsors or Mentor please contact Kim Neel Wyon, knw[at]optiteam[dot]com to receive more information of how yuo can  participate.

Coming Soon

Posted by Clint Nelsen

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