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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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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After almost 2,5 years of hard work and determination I’m blessed to see GiverSigns spreading all over the world. It is WWF’s Earth Hour campaign that is taking our baby to new heights and places. Earth Hour is one of the largest, if not the largest, advocacy campaigns on the environment ever. It is the [...]

Posted on February 4th, 2009 by Linus
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Hey, let’s take a couple of worn out words and stick ‘em together. (Ok, found 21800 hits on Google for “Change 2.0″… But who cares, that’s kind of the beauty of the Internet…)

Let me give you my definitions of the words change and 2.0:
Change: Defines the moment when something seize to exist in [...]

Posted on January 25th, 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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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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Today’s quick math:

A tree will absorb about 2 metric tons of CO2 in it’s lifetime, most of it during the first 50-100 years depending on the kind of tree. Let’s calculate with an average of 20kg per year. (Note: Some scientists claim that a tree can absorbe 1 ton of CO2 per year, but that [...]

Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Linus
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One trillion dollars. That is what the US spent, combined with indirect costs and losses, on the war in Iraq so far.
One million million dollars.
Get some perspective:
The calculated cost to eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally: 19 billion dollars.
The calculated cost to provide education for every kid on earth: 12 billion dollars.
The calcutated cost to provide [...]

Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Linus
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I have a good friend who is in the grand cry shellfish fishing business, specializing in finding the best catches of lobsters, oysters, langusters and crabs. Shellfish in general are one of the types of sea animals that are not facing extinction. But looking at this business from a sustainability point of view one must [...]

Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Linus
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I used to read Morten Lund’s blog “It’s all about luck” when he was still an active blogger. Although I would say that luck has something to do with how and if we succeed with most things I would not agree with Morten that it’s all about luck. Dedication, stamina, leadership and execution are all [...]

Posted on July 12th, 2008 by Linus
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