Stockholm Startups and Its Startup Community Get Well Deserved Accolades
During the summer, several interesting articles and blog posts about the startup scene and the IT industry in Stockholm, Sweden and the Nordics have been published. Here are some of the best reads:
Norse Power, by CNBC Business:
”Considering Sweden has just nine million inhabitants, and Finland five million, the region is punching well above its weight. “Technically, we’re pretty outstanding,” Adler muses. “We have this fantastic infrastructure which comes out of the history provided by Nokia and Ericsson.””
Mobile Payments In The Nordics And Baltics, by Greg Andersson:
“It seems like Finland and the rest of the Nordic and Baltic countries are ahead of the curve when it comes to mobile payments being accepted in society”
Start-Up Spotlight Stockholm: Europe’s Creative Capital, by Paula Marttila:
”Why move to Stockholm instead of, say, the London Silicon Roundabout? For starters, it’s an ideal test bed, with 52 percent of the population on smartphones, 69 percent using the Internet daily, 49 percent starting on the Internet at age 3, and 50 percent playing digital games.”
Europe’s 100 Hottest Startups 2012, Wired UK
”Internationally huge startups have roots in Sweden’s capital, leaving the city swarming with top talent, ideas and resources”
(The Wired article will be published in the September issue of the magazine’s UK edition but is already available on iPad and for subscribers on http://www.wired.co.uk/)
