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

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.

Resoptima is a young technology company, experiencing rapid growth. We develop innovative software solutions, helping upstream oil and gas companies improve efficiency, understand risk and make better investment decisions. We operate in an international environment and have customers in all major regions. We have successful software solutions, clearly differentiated from alternative solutions. We have a proven track record of innovation, and several promising ideas in the pipeline. We have great offices, centrally located in Oslo.

Vårt formål er å demokratisere kunnskap om entreprenørskap. Vi tilbyr interaktive nettkurs, personlig veiledning og workshops for tidlig fase gründere. Vårt først kurs Gründerformelen skal gi de som sitter på en idé kunnskapen de trenger for å lykkes i sin oppstartsprosess! På denne måten skal vi bidra til at flere ideer ser dagens lys!

LessAdmin is an HR system for small businesses and startups. It offers an easy way to administer and get an overview of employees, leave and vacation planning and approval, onboarding and offboarding, notifications, upcoming birthdays and international bank holidays, benefits and more. It's developed in Norway with GDPR and privacy in mind.

Turnss was founded to inspire the ocean industry to identify, understand and implement sustainable value creation and help companies demonstrate their positive impact to the market, proving that sustainability is good for business. Our mission: Deliver the necessary tools for companies to build sustainable value creation.

RAGE for Climate allows everyone to fight climate change with direct and measurable impact. We focus on enabling businesses and individuals to make a real and traceable change in reducing air pollution by supporting renewable energy projects. This ensures there’s no greenwashing and no contributing to projects that have already been established and provide no additional impact with your money. With RAGE, you get real-time data on your contribution showing your environmental impact and how you're making a real difference on climate change. 100% climate impact 100% guarantee of where your money is going and 100% no bullshit. #realimpact #nobullshit #rageforclimate

XTEND will develop three XR applications for Sunnaas hospital. More info: https://xrinhealthcare.com/ and http://xtend.as We design and build applications for mobile devices. Our approach combines a mix of innovation strategy, UI/UX design, and well-crafted software. Our combined experience, expertise and commitment to excellence enables our team to create solutions that some clients initially believed were never possible. XTEND is comprised of a variety of communication specialists, interaction designers and software developers; who all have a passion for what we do: designing and developing functional, efficient, effective and enjoyable-to-use applications.

Can Nordic produce taste exciting and exotic? Could we make a drink that is natural, local, sustainable and most importantly: Better tasting than the existing alternatives?Yes! Villbrygg produces Natural beverages with No/Low alcohol, made by sustainable produce from farmers who take care of the soil, and urban gardeners who make the cities greener. We also hunt down local tropical flavours and forage Wild plants. We strive to create outstanding drinks, while doing something good for the world.

Snowroller utvikler og selger bærekraftig og Instagram-vennlig skitøy til Generasjon Z (individer født mellom 1995 og 2010) gjennom egen nettbutikk. Siden lanseringen i 2017 har Snowroller doblet omsetningen årlig og solgt over 2500 skidresser til kunder verden over. I dag er vi tre ansatte i selskapet, hvorav to jobber fulltid på kontor i Oslo. Vi har et høyt fokus på innovasjon, forretningsutvikling og bærekraft innad i teamet, blant annet gjennom å stadig tenke nytt og inkludere kundene våre i alle faser av produktutviklingsprosessen.

The Pitch Most tidal power plants today generate power only in one direction. Projected, next-generation tidal power plants with two-way production have sub-optimal production. Tidetec patented technology improves efficiency by 11-22% of the most cost effective tidal turbine technology by obtaining optimal efficiency both ways and pumping efficiency. This is achieved by integrating the turbine into a rotating turret. The turning mechanism is patented, and has received international recognition. The What Tidetec can kick-start a huge UK Market The How Tidetec has developed a fully functional scale model prototype of the turning mechanism. The turning mechanism prototype has been successfully tested in sea water for two months. Prototyping has shown feasibility of the concept and the model turbine simulations and testing confirm turbine efficiencies much higher than state of the art traditional turbines for 2-way hydropower. In summary, prototyping engineering, feasibility studies and cost estimations of the Tidetec concept have proven major efficiency increase compared to traditional concepts. The results show that the Tidetec concept is potentially disruptive technology for 2-way hydropower in Tidal lagoons and barrages, and can kick-start this market. TEAM Tidetec has built a competent team guided by its co-founder and CEO. Tidetec team has been balanced to meet the commercial phase and Tidetec heading for an establishment of The Tidetec Two-way Hydropower Consortium consisting of EPCI partner, State funding partner GIEK /Export Credit and sub-suppliers to be able to deliver for Tidal range projects. PARTNERS Tidetec core function is development of market and technology within two-way hydropower. For everything else we use our trusted network of partners. From 2018 Tidetec is collaborating with Engineering company Femkuber AS. The Tidetec Two-way Hydropower Consortium consisting of EPCI partner, State funding partner GIEK /Export Credit and sub-suppliers to be able to deliver for Tidal range projects is expected to be in operation during 2018. Tidetec have signed MoU collaboration agreement with several, renowned international developers, turbine producers and sub-suppliers. MARKET The Tidetec market is 2-way hydropower, which means the tidal range market, with a focus on the tidal lagoon/tidal barrier/flood defence industry. Studies indicate a potential global market for Tidal Range hydropower up to 30Bn€ (investments). Tidetec's concept is not limited by turbine type, MW or geographical area. The Why Tidetec has developed and patented technology that can kick-start the Tidal Barrier and Tidal Lagoon market.

Med våre fakturaløsninger gir vi våre kunder en enklere hverdag og mer penger på egen bankkonto ! Vår bransje preges av spennende og innovative løsninger som vi også ønsker å være en del av. For å møte dette trenger vi en front-end utvikler som sammen med oss vil lage smarte løsninger for våre kunder.

OPPTUR er sunne energibarer basert på gode råvarer av høy kvalitet - perfekt til tur eller en aktiv hverdag. For hver OPPTUR bar du kjøper donerer vi en nødrasjon til kriserammede områder og barn i sult.  Med bruk av en én for én modell i matvarebransjen ønsker vi å gjøre det lettere å bidra til å løse bærekraftsmål nummer to - null sult i verden innen 2030.  Til nå har våre kunder bidratt til å donere over 50.000 nødrasjoner til kriserammede områder som Sør Sudan!

CoHub - a social and innovative entrepreneurial environment in Grimstad. We are a coworking community in Grimstad, CoHub offers office spaces for startups and entrepreneurs,  ranging from your own office to a more open flexible workplace in our coworking community. CoHub is working to collect the startups, network, activities, and expertise within innovation and entrepreneurship in Grimstad - and working with other coworking spaces in the region.

Ocean Industry Forum Oslofjord is the Oslo chapter of "Maritimt Forum". It's a not-for profit association with an aim to encourage innovation in the ocean industries and to support ocean start-ups and help them become scale-ups. Most of the maritime, offshore and other ocean industries are in big need of innovation, and we have a small, but significant enough role to play in that respect. We will work with other actors, like The Hub, in the Oslofjord region and beyond, to achieve this goal.