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

Adams Matkasse gjør god mat enkel, og samler familien rundt middagsbordet. Landslagskokk og matkreatør i Adams Matkasse, Adam Bjerck, er stadig på reise rundt om i Norge og Europa for å finne frem til de beste råvarene. Sammen med sitt menyteam, bestående av kokker og ernæringsfysiolog, komponerer Adam ukentlige menyer, som sammen med ferske råvarer blir levert rett hjem på døren til over 10 000 familier rundt om i hele Norge. Matkassene består av norsk fisk og kjøtt, sesongens grønnsaker og inspirasjon fra hele verden. Å inspirere familier til å spise god og sunn mat, og spare tid der det trengs mest – det er tanken bak Adams Matkasse.

ZoopIt er en tilbyder av same-day delivery til nettbutikker og lar forbruker få varer levert hjem innen 2 timer etter kjøp i nettbutikken. Vår ambisjon er å tilby en solid, skalerbar tjeneste som lett integreres inn i eksisterende løsninger for å enten erstatte eller supplere tradisjonelle leveranseløsninger. Ønsker du å se tjenesten live kan du besøke handlekurven til en av våre partnere, www.Expert.no. ZoopIt AS ble stiftet I 2014, har i dag 5 ansatte og er deleid av Schibsted.

StudMatch strive to make employment of students accessible and easy for all companies, such that many more choose to make use of this often underrated resource. We help businesses define good projects that create value for both themselves and the students, make their recruitment process slick and easy by providing them with a shortlist of candidates; and give them the framework for ensuring good and effective HR for the students during their employment. In turn allows the businesses to provide meaningful relevant experiences to students through internships and part-time jobs during their studies. We deliver this value by systemizing domain knowledge into our data driven platform, allowing us to deliver our service in a scalable way. The goal is to make student employment the obvious decision for any business that seek to connect with solid talent.

In tight collaboration with medical experts, we at Connect the Dots design and develop a virtual world where medical personnel can perform extensive medical procedural training in a safe environment without risking patient lives. Our goal is to increase the efficiency, productivity, and availability of practical medical procedure training.

Intro to Spirelykke Spirelykke is a startup established in Halden, but with customers in a national range so far.. We're on a mission to help people getting closer to them selves and nature, by helping them grow their own plants. By delivering courses digitally combined with sending them the right seeds, soil and equipment, we guarantee they will succeed, and they will be able to grow plants they have never done before. We create unique experiences for our customers in mastering new skills, combined with joy, satisfaction and happiness. Aka SPIRELYKKE.

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.

The Company Arcticode is developing an easy to use mobile order and payment service to help food and beverage venues capture feedback while at the same time creating better loyalty from guests by incentivizing feedback through loyalty points. The issue We solve an issue common in the bar, venue and club scene. Customer insight and feedback. There is often less dialogue between guests and staff, and guests these days demand more and more from every visit. This occurs especially in the younger generation starting with millennials and younger. They constantly seek the best experience and will move on from a venue quite fast if expectations are not meet. Most venues in both the food and beverage sector could benefit from having a simple solution to better capture feedback while at the same time providing a simple mobile order and payment solution. The Solution Our solution combines ordering and feedback into one service. The service lets you order and pay while out for food and drinks with your phone as this is becoming the preferred way today while also capturing feedback in-app which provides cash points. These can then be used for discounted meals, snacks, goods, drinks etc. (not alcoholic beverages – Norway edition). We create a win-win situation of having guests leave feedback while also being enrolled in a loyalty program which creates higher interest and recurring visits. Why we do what we do Having worked in the food and beverage service sector you may encounter a lot of less friendly feedback at times, but this is often individuals who do not represent the majority of guests. But when you just don’t know this can make a workday long and tiresome, and rarely inspire anyone to provide a better service. But regardless, you start to understand your guests even better, you can facilitate for an even better service and experience, and this will in turn create a better day for both staff and guest. As a guest, you simply want what you came for, a good experience and a good service. Regardless of what the situation for the staff is. Having a simple way to both order and leave feedback while gaining something from it will create a mutually beneficial situation. And that’s what we have in common. We all want to have a good experience. This is why we do what we do. To create the best possible outcome for both.

PRO FLO has developed a revolutionary wastewater filtration solution that will transform current infrastructure and technological practices propelling the industry into a tangible future of a truly circular economy. PRO-FLO’s solution eliminates 99% of wastewater contaminants, removing all particles above 5 microns, regardless of industry, scale, or wastewater composition. Our patented filtration solution is closed-loop, continuous, efficient, and scalable leveraging the most advanced filtration screens on the market today with proven tests results to document significant impacts. We have joined forces with like-minded strategic partners, implementing a holistic and systemic approach, combined with meticulous execution to set the stage for long-term prosperity accounting for people, planet, and profit.

WA.works is a startup company with all the excitement and frustration this entails. Our team is small, but growing, and we are passionate about creating something that uses technology to challenge perceptions and processes in an otherwise traditional industry. We are ALWAYS looking for hungry talents!

EnableMagic is developing a digital platform that will help innovation ecosystem like incubators and accelerators become more efficient. We do this by breaking down network barriers and while increasing the overview the startups have in their incubator. We make it easier for investors to find potential investments in incubators, for mentor to track startups and for incubators to extract data from their ecosystem. We are building our business because we want to help solve problems, and one of the main reasons startups fail is either wrong team, no market or no funding. By helping incubators and accelerators become more efficient, we hope to address these issues and help people solve problems.

Get Started! er et inkubatorselskap som tilbyr faste programmer og skreddersydde tjenester for gründere, intraprenører og investorer. Vi jobber direkte med våre innovatører og tror at tett samarbeid gir de beste resultatene! Vi er tuftet på mangeårig ekspertise innen forretningsdrift og drevet av gleden ved å starte noe nytt. Siden oppstarten i 2012 har vår kompetanse og forretningsteft hjulpet en rekke bedrifter med etablering, skalering, å skaffe finansering og skape arbeidsplasser.

Frontend-konsulenter og frilansere unite! Dette er oppstarten av nisje-konsulenthuset utelukkende for frontend-utviklere. Her skal frontend teknologi rendyrkes og styre fagmiljøet! Alle konsulenter er spesialister på ett eller flere JavaScript-rammeverk blandt React.js, Vue.js eller Angular, i tillegg til å ha sterk kompetanse på vanilla JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, SCSS/LESS, web design, responsivt design. Du får sjansen til å være med fra starten av; være medeier. Du får være med å forme selskapet, styrke fag-miljøet, velge nye kolleger, ta del i noe eget, sette kursen! Etter å ha lest dette så er det typisk to måter å reagere på; "Tja.., det høres interessant ut, men jeg vil nødig bytte kantine med den jeg har i dag...", eller "Ja! Dette høres spennede ut. Jeg vil vite mer!". Jeg vil bare snakke med den siste av dere. Helt uforpliktende selvfølgelig.

The world of IT -infrastructure is moving towards containers, which enables great ideas to become great digitalized services quickly, reliably and systematically. While containerized software is becoming the form factor of choice for the IT industry, new technologies challenge how IT is consumed by enabling promising multi- and hybrid cloud solutions for cost benefits and agility. Datalounges, the container operations company, is an infrastructure expert with best practices to manage customers journey to consume containers in a holistic way taking into account delivery, continuity, reliable operations and visibility in private, public and hybrid clouds. We help customers use containers with confidence.

Kaukus er et oppstartselskap som leverer programvare for administrasjon av politiske møter i kommunesektoren. Vi forenkler og automatiserer politiske møter i kommunesektoren slik at møtesekretærer frigjør tid til andre oppgaver og får bedre praktiske løsninger. Samtidig vil de politiske representanters hverdag effektiviseres.