At Tyler Crowley‘s next STHLM Tech Meet, June 12th, guest Jason Bell, director of Qualcomm Ventures and board member of Videoplaza, will talk about how to build relationships with international VCs. This is a very important topic for us Swedish startups since the amount of capital available from local sources in Sweden are very limited. If you want funding next year, go to the Tech Meet, listen to Jason and start networking – and you’re on to a great beginning.

If Qualcomm sounds familiar, Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of the huge wireless technology company that makes everything from mobile chipsets to software.

Make sure you get your seat by registering ASAP! It’s free. Even if you can’t attend this Tech Meet, click through to the registration and you can sign up to the mailing list and get a notification about the next STHLM Tech Meet! See you at Hilton at Slussen!

Organizer Startupbootcamp have been nice enough to give all my readers 20% off the ticket price if you register with the promocode “lidne”.

The event is at Wrapp HQ on Döbelsgatan 24 and starts at 5 pm. See ya there!

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A term sheet includes conditions for financing a startup company. The key offering terms in such a term sheet include (a) amount raised, (b) price per share, (c) pre-money valuation, (d) liquidation preference, (e) voting rights, (f) anti-dilution provisions, and (g) registration rights. (Wikipedia)

There’s been little discussion in the Swedish startup community regarding term sheets, probably due to the scarcity of seed financing which pretty much makes it a take it or leave it situation. That is something that Lars Buch and his Startupbootcamp is trying to change with the Term Sheet Battle Nordic Tour.

At Sing Sing in the KTH campus, on the 31st May, prominent Nordic VCs will participate in the term sheet battle and educate us all in what terms they offer and counter-offer. Entrepreneurs and students pay a small fee to attend, and since this might be in the future for you, it might be among the best money you can invest!

Registration and more information at Term Sheet Battle Nordic Tour!

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In this interview we talk a lot about the gambling and gaming industry, the power of branding and diffrentiation as well as a host of good tips for entrepreneurs.

Unfortunately, we discovered a sound cable break during the editing, but the sound have been cleaned up as much as possible.

Next week we present a great opportunity for Swedish startups and investors!

Startupbootcamp and VentureScout are coming to town Wednesday 23rd and hold an afternoon pitching session and mingle at the KTH Reactor.

The focus are on startups within the Health/Medical field that will be recommended for Startupbootcamp in Dublin (HealthXL) and ICT/Web for the Amsterdam Startupbootcamp, both starting shortly. Also Early-stage startups (cool team working on an idea) within the mobile field, both B2B and B2C as well as both software, hardware, apps and SaaS for the Copenhagen “Mobility” focused program starting summer 2013.

For investors it’s a great opportunity to get a first look at high quality early stage startups within these fields.

The program starts at 2 pm with Startupbootcamp and VentureScout making short pitches about their mission and activites,followed by the 6-10 selected startups pitching to the crowd, invited investors and fellow entrepreneurs. This is an opportunity for startups to get valuable feedback and for investors to spot the next bright star.

We wrap up the day with some casual networing to get to know each other, make connections and perhaps have a beer or two.

The event is free of charge.

If you are an investor, please register here.

If you are a startup, please fill in the application. The deadline is Saturday 19th of January.

Sponsors:

Top photo THE REACTOR PIT by Annika Lidne from the KTH Reactor.

January 23rd, Swedish Startup Sessions – together with KTH and Mosync – is proud to host the Stockholm leg of the joint Startupbootcamp and VentureScout Nordic sourcing tour.

We are looking for great startups that in turn are looking for great international breakout opportunities. We will handpick some companies and select others from this open call. In total, around 10-12 companies will pitch in the afternoon January 23rd at the KTH Reactor at the KTH Campus in Stockholm.

Is your startup the one we’re looking for?

We are looking for startups that have reached – or are close  - to the alpha/beta stage Cool if you have users and possibly also revenue.

We are focusing on three main sectors:

1) B2C startups within social networking, publishing-related fields and social shopping/e-commerce. For these startups we have a large interested corporate investor so you should be interested in taking investments and you should have proof of concept, validated business model and traction.

2) Startups within the Health/Medical field to be recommended for Startupbootcamp in Dublin (HealthXL) and ICT/Web for the Amsterdam Startupbootcamp, both starting shortly.

3) Early-stage startups (cool team working on an idea) within the mobile field, both B2B and B2C as well as both software, hardware, apps and SaaS for the Copenhagen “Mobility” focused program starting summer 2013.

What is Startupbootcamp?

Startupbootcamp, the most effective startup accelerator in Europe, is re-launching in Copenhagen during 2013 to secure the close relationship to the many great startup teams in Scandinavia.

SBC offer €15K, free housing and co-working space, a 3-month super-intense personalized Mentor program with top-notch international mentors, Investor Demo Day, Investor Roadtour to London and Silicon Valley and a long list of sponsor benefits in return for 8% equity. SBC had 800 applications for the last two programs, hosted +300 investors for each investor day and are close to 100% funding rate of teams. Their strongest assets are +500 great mentors, their list of almost 3000 friendly investors, 60 great Alumni teams and powerful sponsors in all five cities.

In Stockholm we bring friendly investors to the venue who are eager to meet startups for potential cooperation, but are also scouting for large corporate investors.

Apply here!

We’d like your application ASAP!

Watch and learn!

Are you interested in learning, watching the pitches and helping out, we need a few volunteers. Please e-mail me at annika [at] lidne [dot] com!

Top photo by Annika Lidne from the KTH Reactor.

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Apart from myself with my new startup Dramatify, I chatted with:

• Social media startup RelationDesk with founder Fritjof Andersson.
• Super entrepreneur and investor Johan Jörgensen with his new Hypertext3.com.
• Ditte Hammarström with her attention magnet Snowfire.
• Jonas Grimfelt, co-founder of Merchii that turns inspiration into cash.
• The founders of the world’s largest phone book, Truecaller, Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam.
• Hugo Freire with cool internet-of-things startup Linkafy.
• Inventor Jin Moen with the super-cute Oriboo.
• Lukas Duczko of the useful electronic signer Scrive.
• George André with early stage video education startup Codeness.
• The API king of Northern Europe, Andreas Krohn, with APIHQ.
• Message security with Poosty founder Anders Jonsson.
• Fun soccer betting with Palbetting founders Marcus Lådö and Lars Ekman.
• One backend to rule them all with Curvenade co-founder Mikael Eriksson.
• The hipster developer hosting and deployment startup Omnicloud and their CEO and co-founder Per Jonsson.
• Marcus Krüger, chair of spectacular gaming engine startup Goo Technologies.
• And, finally a wrap up by Sweden’s mobile prince Tomas Bennich.

Enjoy!

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Also, have a look at the Swedish startups represented at Leweb 2012 at TTSweden2012.com

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