Can you fight single-use plastics products as a small start-up with limited resources? Can you really create a deodorant that is so great it lasts for longer than your lifetime and can be passed on to your grandchildren? And how should you do to be successful on Kickstarter?  Adam Webb, serial entrepreneur, gives his advice on how to make your idea become reality, but also shares his own failures along the way.  EPISODE LINKS:  Kickstarter campaign to lifelong deodorant  Connect with Adam on Linkedin  Lifelong.eco  ..read more

When everyone else fights for the market shares of e-scooters in the big cities, Hopp has a different business model that works perfect for small towns. Through franchise they have reached small cities like Kiruna long before anyone would imagined. In this episode we talk about the e-scooter business, what difference it makes to both the customer experience, sustainability, quality and market expansion to use a franchise business model. Michel also tells us about the profitability of the franchise model and that it actually can be very profitable for the e-scooter franchise owners.  EPISO ..read more

What's the difference between the swedish startups and a typical valley start-up?  Annie makes a comeback and gives her review of 2022 in terms of innovations. She also talks about how Swedish startups can learn from Silicon Valley by the program TINC from Nordic Innovation House. And what's the difference between Swedish start-ups and typical valley start-ups?  If you're interested, apply to TINC on the link below.  EPISODE LINKS Nordic Innovation House - TINC program  Connect with Annie on Linkedin  ..read more

Why is Sweden so innovative? And how can we boost innovation specifically within the mining industry? Can you direct in which field to be innovative?  Jenny Greberg invited Darja isaksson, who is the director general at Vinnova, to discuss these topics with us.  Vinnova is Sweden’s innovation agency that helps to build Sweden's innovation capacity and contributing to sustainable growth. Their vision is that Sweden is an innovative force in a sustainable world. Vinnova together with Formas and the swedish energy agency are the investors of Swedish Mining Innovation EPISODE LINKS Follo ..read more

Recycling metals, will that kill the mining industry?  In this episode we get insights from reality regarding circular economy within the mining industry. We talk about the current state of recycling, the upsides with it but also the drawbacks with Charlotte Andersson Charlotte is associate professor in metallurgy at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden’s and one of Europe's leading universities in mining research. Charlotte has an extensive background in mining innovation with a career spanning more than 20 years: She has done research on fossilfree steel production, and worked on indu ..read more

Everybody wants an electric vehicle, but no one wants to live next to a mine. This paradox might slow down the transition to renewable energy system, but is it true? Does actually no one wants to live next to a mine?  In this episode, the second one in our miniseries together with Swedish Mining Innovation and Jenny Greberg, their programme director, we discuss Social Innovation in the mining industry. For this, we invited Åsa Allan, deputy CEO at Kaunis Iron, who has experience of starting up a new mine in Pajala in northern Sweden. She gives examples of how new mining industry can be in ..read more

"The proof is in the pudding" is what Stefan himself says is one of the success factors behind his two very successful startups: POC and CAKE. The idea of POC came to his mind sitting in the ski lift and wanting to contribute to save more lives by making safer helmets that also people wanted to wear. Later on, when Stefan got a hand of a very early electric motorbike prototype it was just way too fun and astonshing for him to not share it with the rest of the world. So tune in and enjoy an hour of inspiring talk with Stefan Ytterborn, one of Swedens most famous superentrepreneur.  EPISODE ..read more

Energy storage solutions and solar power systems are here, but still not affordable for many. A large upfront cost can be challenging. Ulrika Tornerefelt, the CEO of Stella Futura, has worked hard with implementation of clever business models to boost the transformation to solar power and battery energy storage systems, both in Sweden and in Africa. Stella Futura enables usage of both batteries and solar power by a leasing model with so-called Power Purchase Agreements (PPA). Learn more about how they run their business in Africa, giving financial accessibility to modern green technology and c ..read more

Few are left untouched when listening to Shori Zand's life story. Graduated from university only 19 years old. Came to sweden with two small kids and had to start all over not knowing anyone. She is one of the pioneers that challenged the public heathcare system meaning it did have care for every patient and with using diversity and inclusion as real asesset 20 years before it was a thing she made a strong position on the swedish healt care market. Don't miss out getting great advice from a great entrepreneur!  EPISODE LINKS Connect with Shori Zand on Linkedin  Read "Den udda fågeln ..read more

Time to increase your results times two? With the extraordinary results method it is possible. In this episode, Sandra Bourbon talks to Maximilian Tropé about how he helped a pharmaceutical company go from one approved drug per year to two. Maximilian became obsessed with goal settings to reach extraordinary results when he played ice hockey. Today, he helps elite athletes and business leaders set goals to achieve extraordinary results. He is also the co-author of the book For Full Potential - Exploring the possible, achieving the extraordinary which describes the method. In this episode, Maxi ..read more