The arena for social entrepreneurship initiatives is not exactly a big one. But it is a rapidly growing phenomenon and even venture capital is beginning to find its way into social enterprises. When I started my social venture in October 2006 I found only about 10 social entrepreneurs (globally) that had been officially and seriously [...]

Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Linus
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Let’s face a weird fact – global warming, in many ways the end of growth for the western world, could be the way out of poverty for a billion people. How can that be? Well, it’s simple really:
Greenhouse gas is not worth anything, it’s simply waste. But, as with any waste – once it piles [...]

Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Linus
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Yes! After a long long time, this ingenious idea has finally found its way to the world!
What is it? It is a way for people to compensate for the negative impact that their digital activities have on the environment.  It is simple: You use your computer to read this blog, that will consume [...]

Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Linus
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I am very happy to announce a new GiverSign partner: Plan! Plan is today one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid organization. It started 1937 in Britain as a foster parent organization helping children that had lost their parents in the Spanish civil war. Today Plan is working in 66 countries all over the world [...]

Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Linus
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Yeah! We teamed up with Meindbender to create a new showrell for 2009. As always  Robert Lundgren (my co-founder and CEO/composer at A/D Union) made a stunning soundtrack to Meindbender’s insane visuals…
Check it out:

Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Linus
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I have to say… I will remember these times for the rest of my life. My reality, and many other startup entrepreneurs’ reality, has changed remarkably and irreversibly over the last few months. I’ve been in meetings with VCs and heard things like “it just can’t get any worse now”, and a couple of weeks [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Linus
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JOB DESCRIPTION: Asaasco is looking for technical support resources in Gothenburg for the upcoming global release of the GiverSign application. As a support resource, you will help GiverSign end-users to get started with their personal GiverSign app, using a questions and answers database. It is a very free and flexible job and you can work [...]

Posted on January 3rd, 2009 by Linus
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2008 – What an amazing trip its been!
I have gone from being a super-naive entrepreneur to become an almost-as-super-naive entrepreneur AND CEO of a VC funded Internet startup with, for the time being,  the world’s greatest web-technology under its wing.
Internet World gave me a 12th place at their hot-list for 2008, next year I’m [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Linus
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I need you!

You love to make things simple (not necessarily easy) and you have a passion for making web based services/sites that ANYONE can understand and use. You know your way around xhtml, css and java, you have a good eye conceptually as well as visually and you master the Adobe CS suite. Using Flash [...]

Posted on November 8th, 2008 by Linus
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The so called global financial crisis hit us like a swarm of meteors smacking down on a big juicy oil field. Pieces of rock shredding the earth, breaking, starting fires, flames burning us, smoke blinding our vision, all hell breaking loose.
Yeah right… I’m so fed up with all the BS of this global crisis… Let [...]

Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Linus
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