A global movement to make it fun & easy to break the ice between people to find true love, friendships, and social activities with an optimal mix of high-tech & high-touch organized as a Master Franchise. The top management team at Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA bought the idea in 2006 as a social benefit. Love & Friendship locally & globally - health & peace! Personal matchmaking, online dating, friendships, mingling! Improving relationship health! Looking for: mentor(s), companies to co-create (pilot project), team members, business partners, investors, etc. Storytelling frame (the truth): Svalbard: Here you can still risk meeting polar bears in the streets. Every semester the university (UNIS) has an icebreaker party! Since 2004 I have tested out different ideas and found them possible to succeed. For more information read this paper: ALYTUS COLLEGE, ISSN 2029-9311, October 30, 2013: 50 % of the world population lives in big cities worldwide - how will this affect our social relationships -- and how to improve these? 50 % of the world population lives in big cities worldwide --and this will increase (globalis.no) - how will this affect our social relationships, and how to improve these? Several statistics underline the challenges of the modern world: 50 % or more are single. 50 % are cheating. 50 % or more break up or divorce. 25 % on sick leave as a result of a relationship breakup. Low libido is now a public health problem. 48 % have only one friend, but not a reliable one in a crisis. 50 % of the population wants more friends. We become more sick from our private lives than our work lives (Modesta Olsen, 2007), and the modern family is the most common family structure (Almendingen, 2010). Which social structures can survive the strain of losing the qualities of faithfulness, honesty, and decency? Cynicism becomes our defense. Depression and feelings of emptiness are the prices we pay. Giving hugs, care, and trust to others not only bring greater happiness - it can also lead to better business. Icebreakercard.com is a new world movement to solve these social challenges. It fights for its vision: Love and friendship locally and globally! Our big goal is to improve your life quality. As social entrepreneurs, we are called the fourth sector which cooperates with the other three: private, public, and civic (Ellis, 2006) with an optimal mix of high tech & high touch! In this paper, I will present my research findings in the Western world (mainly Norway and USA) and my part of the solution as a social entrepreneur of Icebreakercard.com. A social entrepreneur has been described as our time's hero and heroines. We create solutions where none of the sectors have succeeded well enough. Bad relationships lead to health problems in the population across age and gender. Mental health conditions are now the key concern in all of the OECD countries. The employer and the community take the economic bill when the employee is on sick leave. The disease is a private matter, but absence is not. Links: http://alytauskolegija.lt/Dokumentai/2013/38_Soreide.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/AnneSreide/ib-fb-2012 https://independent.academia.edu/AnneS%C3%B8reide https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_G._S%C3%B8reide

Inbound made easy! By offering potential customers relevant and tailored content, you will increase engagement and achieve customer growth. Our goal is for customers to come to your company by their own free will, without you having to "chase" them. Our values Our values form the basis for everything we do. We are innovative and are not afraid to think in a new way. At the same time, we are exploratory and curious, which we believe is important if you like to succeed over time. We do also know that you as a customer will be satisfied. Through targeted work, we ensure that you as a customer will achieve your goals to the greatest extent possible. Our services We use a number of inbound tools and techniques, where the purpose is for your company to attract and convert customers.

Layn has developed a mobile-based digital queueing system that enables businesses to increase customer satisfaction by adding a mobile platform to the customer journey. People hate standing in line in stores, at amusement park attractions, electrical charging points, hospitals, and restaurants. The list goes on. By using Layn, the customer can wait for the service where they want, postpone a ticket, use a Fastlane, VIP ticket, or Future ticket to get to the service they need as fast as possible. Layn has developed a cloud platform that lets businesses use whatever hardware they would like to solve their use case. The platform is flexible and extremely adaptable. There are cases with pure mobile to mobile operations, but there are also cases with touchscreen and digital signage solutions delivered by our partners. For some customers, we integrate the solution with access gates and existing operational systems to get the desired customer journey. Users can either get a paper ticket or use their mobile device to get an electronic ticket. We spend all our time developing a solution that is as intuitive, easy, and smart to use as possible. We aim at reducing the relative time felt waiting. In 2019 the two founders took a family trip to Paris to visit the Eiffel tower. After spending 2 hours in line to get through security and pay for their tickets, they had to go back at the end of the line again to wait for the rest of the family members. Like most people, they hate standing in line. They wanted to create a solution where they instead of physically having to stand in line rather could sit down and have a drink while waiting for their turn in the "digital line". After that, the number of use-cases has just exploded.

Young Lab, er en ny eksperimentel måde at arbejde sammen - om børns sunde liv og udvikling. Metoden er udviklet af Social IQ, og er blevet til gennem en samskabende design proces mellem børn, lærings- eksperter, pædagoger og daginstitutioner. YoungLab - er en form for hybrid mellem analog og digital eksperimenterende læring og evaluering for dagtilbud og indskoling. YoungLab hjælper daginstitutioner og skoler med at nå de nye læreplans mål; med øget evalueringspraksis og dokumentation, på en sjov og innovativ måde.

Automatic background checks for a new era. We verify people, so you don't have to. Before volunteers can work with children, they need to go through proper screening, but the process can be complex to handle. Our first product is easy processing and verification of police certificates for youth sports organizations. By doing this we help to prevent sexual abuse and create a safe environment for everyone in sports. The founders have started several successful ventures and we are very clear on the unique culture we are trying to build. Not only will you be working with a team of talented business people, engineers and designers, but you will also be a vital part of our company and bring your voice to the table on how to build our products and services. The right person will be rewarded handsomely in love, respect, money and equity. We especially encourage women and international nationalities to apply. All ages, religions, sexual orientations and personalities are also welcome. We want a team that reflects the population of the world!

We produce new unique generation of bread without any use of grains. We have developed a unique technology to process flaxseeds (new superfood) in a way that we can produce a healthy bread out of them without the use of any allergens. This bread is naturally GLUTEN FREE, HIGH IN FIBER, LOWCARB, HIGH IN OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS AND A GOOD SOURCE OF HIGH-QUALITY PROTEIN. Our bread is suitable for everyone with FOOD ALLERGIES: specifically also gluten, milk, soy, nuts and eggs. Furthermore our bread is suitable for people with such medical conditions or predispositions as: Diabetes, Cancer, Cardiovascular and Digestive diseases. Our bread is also very energy-dense and does not affect blood sugar levels - this means that by eating our bread, one will stay satited and energized much longer as opposed to standard bread. This is mainly due to low starch, and high fiber and omega-3 fat, content. This advantage alone can help to increase work-productivity. Food allergy is an increasing disease. It is generally accepted that food allergy affects approximately 2.5% of the global population - this represents roughly 160 Million people! (World Allergy Organization)

Bringing Scandinavian taste and culture to the world. We are a start-up that sends curated or custom snack boxes to the USA, UK, Australia and Canada. Right now, we have a one-off shop on our website, but we are going to be moving to a subscription model where every two months you get an excellent pack of snacks, chocolates, chips, healthy snacks from Norway and other countries in Scandinavia.

Pinovo AS is a Norwegian scale up that has developed, patented, proven and commercialised surface maintenance technology that stops Ocean Paint Microplastic emissions. Ocean Paint Microplastic emissions are a large but little known problem that we estimate could be generating between 1.5m and 2.25m tonnes of ocean pollution each year (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/how-to-reduce-microplastics-from-paint/). Pinovo has developed a clean, circular dustless grit blasting solution, which stops these emissions and which is also up to 60% more cost efficient than the traditional methods of surface maintenance for spot blasting.

The Digital Gardener is a planning tool and gardening community for small-scale vegetable producers and home gardeners. We help growers plan what to grow, as well as when, where and how to grow it, so that they can focus on making their plants thrive. The demand for locally produced, sustainable food is increasing. Despite this, small-scale vegetable producers struggle to make an income. Predictable supply is essential to make efficient use of available market channels for direct to consumer sales, and a good plan is a key prerequisite to achieve this. The Digital Gardener aims to help small scale producers achieve the needed predictability by making it easy to create and maintain a good plan, and by helping them keep on top of work to be done throughout the growing season. The interest in gardening and homesteading has also surged during the corona crisis. Unfortunately, many aspiring home gardeners lack the needed growing competence to succeed with their gardening projects. Ambitious homesteaders face similar challenges as professional growers, as they need a good plan to ensure that they can harvest fresh produce for their family throughout the season. The Digital Gardener aims to help all growers succeed with their gardening projects, and will enable them to share information and experience to help and inspire others to succeed as well. The Digital Gardener is a software company. Our goal is to build software that contributes to an increase in the amount of food that is grown locally, as well as increased biodiversity in green spaces and home gardens. We partner with other organisations, people and companies that provide competence, heirloom seeds, tools and methods that can help us achieve this goal.

Visste du at firmahytter er et av de mest populære velferdsgodene i norske bedrifter? Og at det nå er mulig å kjøpe tilgang til firmahytter som en tjeneste, uten alt arbeidet som hører med? Vi i Prodess jobber for at ansatte i norske bedrifter skal ha mest mulig velferd og arbeidsgivere minst mulig administrativt merarbeid når de ønsker å tilby gode velferdsordninger. Gjennom Prodess får norske bedrifter og deres ansatte tilgang til tusenvis av firmahytter og -leiligheter i Norge og utlandet. Dine ansatte får tilgang til et innovativt og spennende velferdsgode, som fungerer tilnærmet likt som en hvilken som helst annen online booking portal - det vil si stort utvalg og rask tilbakemelding på reservasjonsforespørsler. Arbeidsgiver bestemmer budsjett og har hele tiden full kostnadskontroll, betaler bare for varme senger, binder ikke kapital og overlater all administrasjon til Prodess. Vi i Prodess håndterer alt det praktiske, inkl. svare på henvendelser fra ansatte, oppfølgning av utleiere, drift og utvikling av tjenesten. Prodess passer også for bedrifter som ønsker å beholde egne firmahytter. Ønsker dere en presentasjon? Kontakt oss på post@prodess.no.

Naardic is an online gym. We focus on interactive classes - you see the trainer, but the trainer also sees you. Naardic is a fusion of fitness and tech. We are developing our own video conferencing system to get that next level user experience of online training. Our market is divided between private customers and corporate customers. The sale of private memberships started in august 2020 and corporate memberships started in November 2020. So far we have about 2000 paying members and grow very fast. Our corporate customers include some of the largest Norwegians companies like Tine, Crayon, Tryg, Schibsted ++. We have 20+ trainers working for us and about 15 live and interactive classes every day. Our trainers are regarded as the top fitness trainers in Norway.

Checkin er et event management system som skiller seg fra andre billett og eventsystemer ved at vi tilbyr et komplett system for håndtering av ditt event. Alt fra selve påmeldingen og salg av billetter, til ressursstyring, produktsalg, kassesystem og crm. Skreddersøm er stikkordet for Checkin, og det finnes svært få begrensinger i forhold til tilpasninger.

Vi i Peach Group standardiserer og kvalitetssikrer salgsselskap i hele Norden, vår kjernekompetanse er å mekle mellom parter i næringslivet slik at samarbeid og innovasjon når nye høyder. Peach Group innehar et fullverdig akademi, drifter et innovasjonssenter samt bemannings- og rekrutteringsselskapet Peach People.

60% of new restaurants fail within the first year. And nearly 80% close before their fifth anniversary. Owners are often so overwhelmed by the essential day-to-day operations that they rarely prioritize these tasks. But suboptimal operations lead to a significant amount of waste in these businesses. Savvie leverages data into a bite-sized, actionable insights for easier decision-making, which recommends them what to do and when. We help them increase revenue and avoid unnecessary cost.

Debet AS er et av Norges ledende selskaper innenfor software til faktura og inkasso. Over 24500 bedrifter og privatpersoner har til nå valgt Debet Faktura og inkasso som sin programvare til fakturering og inkasso. Debet AS er et naturlig valg for små og mellomstore bedrifter. Gjennom vårt gratis fakturaprogram gjør vi det enkelt for gründere å holde kostnader nede i oppstartsperioden. Med Debet Inkasso benytter man samme innkrevingsmetode som staten bruker med å benytte egeninkasso. Etter kun 30 dager kan utestående krav sendes til Namsmannen.