#entreprenorskap Tweetup, Stockholm, October 2010

Posted: October 31, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Storytelling | 1 Comment

There’s a small community of entrepreneurs using Twitter and social media in Sweden and thanks to Christian Rudolf at the blog Disruptive we’re finally starting to meet face to face.

The meetups got the name “entrepreneurs unplugged” by Geek Girl Supreme Heidi Harman. A suiting name because what happens at the meetups is that a few entrepreneurs get the chance to tell a story – “unplugged” – from their life as an entrepreneur. It’s all very down-to-earth and real, warts and all.

The previous meetup was this Thursday and I took a few pictures. You can find them here. Brand Eye kindly lent us their office.

Here’s a few of the photos…


Christian makes the introduction.


Anna Caracolias, Adimo, explains something. Her story circled in on the importance of “taking the shot” when an opportunity arises and on facing your fears.


Jonas Hombert is only 24 but already the CEO of a company that has Oprah Winfrey as a client, amongst others. He told the story of how Jaycut got started.


Erik Eliasson runs a cross fit gym in Stockholm. He talked about challenging oneself and building a business on something you love doing.

More pictures here.

A big thanks to Christian Rudolf for organizing and Per Sahlkvist from Brand-Eye for providing food, wine and a place to be! And, of course, a big thanks to the entrepreneurs for sharing their stories. Looking forward to the next meetup and more stories.

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Serendipity and the opportunity cloud

Posted: October 24, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Visdomar | 2 Comments

Paul “don’t be evil” Buchheit has a great post on serendipity and opportunity clouds. He writes:

My theory of serendipity is still evolving, but from what I’ve seen, it’s better to think in terms of “allowing” serendipity rather than “seeking” it or “creating” it. Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.

The two biggest blocks to serendipity seem to be ego-fear and “other plans”.

I had to look up the exact meaning of the word “serendipity”, this is what Wikipedia says:

Serendipity is a propensity for making fortunate discoveries while looking for something unrelated.

I guess you could sat that your opportunity cloud is what makes serendipity possible. This is how I summarized the opportunity cloud in a previous post:

“Your opportunity cloud is the sum total of all the positive things that can happen to you at one particular moment. It is what happens when you position yourself to be in a spot where good things happen. For example, exposing your skills on a blog, going to a mingle party, connecting with the right people on social networks, moving to a larger city, becoming good at pitching yourself or your product etc.

Call it accumulation of opportunity capital that may or may not be turned in to real money.”

Call it whatever you want, just don’t call it luck.