Author Archives: Stefanliss

Yesterday SUP46 arrganged a startups recruitment meeting aimed to introduce several startups and try to find people that were interested in their product.

The participating start-ups introduced themselves and what type of people they for the moment needed.

For me I got kind of confused, because I didn’t realize that there was going to be a mingle were diffrent startup apporached and asked about qualifications and such. But it was alot of fun to discuss different ideas and see what problem startup had, besides the obvious staffing issues. I also want to give a cheer to SUP 46 way to invite, both startup and people intetested in the business. A very nice way for people to meet up and enjoy an evening in each others presence. I really hope some of the startups find the people they are looking for, and the hired person’s expectations are met.

Cheers to SUP46!

The mandatory submission,

During the course I have learned what necessary step it takes to become an entrepreneur. I have also learned what a few of those who call themselves entrepreneur do on a daily basis. Moreover, I learned what the key concepts that are used in the every day environment in this type of business.

For my personal gain I thought the Game simulation was the most interesting part in the course. It was a intuitive way to form a overall understanding on how to “run” a business. In addition, it was nice to work within a group where the decisions made by the group influenced, and gave an output that in the end was compared to the classmates’ output. However, I thought it was weird that we didn’t get to participate to all the course slides that were presented during the lectures. I also found it weird that alot of the main tasks in order to a achieve a grade in the course was not presented in the course PM.

Other than that it was an inspiring course.

In a couple of hours (at 10 a:m) the live stream link from Shenzhen Maker Faire and Chinese Factory Tour will close.

Through this link it was possible to follow on a walk through of the Shenzhen Maker Fair for two days. The stream link also gave an opportunity to be in a Chinese hardware production environment, without having to be there. In Shenzhen most of the iPads, iPhones, Amazon Kindle, and Nintendo hardware is made.

We know for a fact that streaming-technology is used to distribute material through all types of event, such as video games and sports. For me, the production-stream was a new one. Is there a demand to get live streams on walk through in factories all over the world? If so, who will be the innovator to quickly follow Twitch’s concept of distributing a platform for humans that have the interest to live stream and chat about production related topics?

I went to the Finance Day fair at KTH yesterday, to discus in what grade innovation is progressed into Swedish banks. The innovations that occur are more than often linked to software development to rise the overall user-experience for their customers.

In order to follow the conclusion of my observations I have to introduce a little bit of background information about the Swedish bank system. The system is based out of a software that was developed in the early 80s, which hasn’t really been updated since then. If this is the first time that you hear about this, the reaction might be: “huh – that sounds bizarre”, but think about how “perfect” the system has to be. For all transactions that is done on a daily basis, every day, it cannot be paused – it has a life of its own. Which means that you never get the time to change system and move over files and such. So the way that the Swedish bank system has followed the technical development (as everything, that still exists on the market is bound to do) is to innovate “plugin-program” that is docked on to the system.

So back over to the conclusion, since the banks is bound to follow a progressive development of their software to keep up with competition. Software will forever dock on to the gigantic system creating a even bigger lock-in effect. When will the innovation (with capital I) that will bring us a paradigm shift in the Swedish bank market?