#Startups ✅ Send potential investors the SHORTEST MESSAGE POSSIBLE on LinkedIn, via email or whatever platform you use. ❌ Don’t send long messages or recorded messages (no one reads, no one listens). ❌ Don’t use words like “we are the Uber of X”, “we are building a disruptive technology”, “we…

From rejection 😭 to... making it happen. #truestory 👇 In 2015, I was building an online platform for startups to help them recruit talent and get access to investors. I was recommended to pitch it to a well-known angel investor in Oslo. So I took all my courage, my hopes…

When I was in banking, my team was managing 1 billion euros and our direct contacts were royals and wealthy families from the Middle East. Sounds exciting, right? It was not for me, I was not motivated at all. I could not find my purpose in what I was doing. …

Be scared and do it anyway. When I started my first company, I did not know anything about starting a business or investing in startups, 8 years later it became my holding company with over 50 startup investments. When I was asked to launch thehub.io in Norway, I had no…

When I came to Norway in 2014, I did not have a network, I did not speak Norwegian and I did not have a relevant experience in running a business. But… My biggest dream was to have my own business. To accelerate my path, I realized that I needed to…