Founders

12/08/2021

HELLO! Literal is the newest company out of Founders and it is live on Product Hunt this fine sunny morning. 📚 💐

Literal is the best place on the internet to track your reading & discover your next favourite book through people who's opinion you actually care about.

It isn't open to the public just yet BUT Product Hunt people can sneak in today and join the PH Book Club. Go and browse the shelves👇🏻

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/literalclub

01/07/2021

Hello Copenhagen! 🇩🇰💪🏼 We are looking for a great new Office Manager to help us make Founders HQ the best place possible to build companies.

🛠 You will be responsible for promoting a thriving office culture and creating a positive experience for everyone - from maintaining clean and organised spaces and clear communication to evaluating how we best use the workspace we share with some of our portfolio companies Butter, Tobi, LifeX and Duuoo.

💃🏼 This role at the heart of the Founders community - you'll be onboarding new people, organising events and generally creating the optimal environment for people to do their best work.

⏰ Start date: mid August! Send us your applications and recommendations right away!

https://thehub.io/jobs/60dda09e61b85d3e26af6f37

28/04/2021

FRESH FOUNDERS STORIES! 🎥 💌

Meet Onno Schwanen and Henrique Ferreira, with whom we have the great pleasure of building Tempo - the email client that helps you focus.

In Onno and Henrique we found people who shared our belief that technology should be defined by people, not the other way around. Together we carved out the values that shaped what Tempo looks and feels like today.

In this edition we talk about what moved them to build Tempo, what they want its legacy to be and why the world needs it.

Watch the video interview below or read the write-up here!👇🏻
https://blog.founders.as/the-email-client-that-helps-you-focus-e36b8febf0e1

10/03/2021

HOW TO START A COMPANY IN DENMARK 🇩🇰🌭
A checklist to guide through the steps you need to complete to register your company.
✅ Legal
✅ Financial
✅ HR

As a startup studio, setting up new companies is something we do continuously at Founders. While the individual tasks aren’t complicated, figuring out and keeping track of all the details takes a lot of effort. Our CFO Dixie made this checklist to guide our co-founders through the process. To help our fellow entrepreneurs, we are sharing it with you!

Building an early stage business, you have plenty on your mind: development, hiring team members, seeking funding etc. You don’t want to waste time worrying if you did everything right. Incorporating the right way will not only save you time and effort, but also save you from facing unnecessary consequences.

Good luck ✊🏼
https://www.startupchecklist.dk/

02/02/2021

Check out Duuoo.io on Product Hunt with their new all-in-one tool for 1-on-1s, team meetings, OKRs & feedback 💥

It’s official: Duuoo Teams is live on Product Hunt 🚀
Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dxTUphB

Our goal has always been to provide a tool that enables people to thrive at work. With Duuoo Teams, the mission remains unchanged but the scope is wider: we’ve taken everything you love about 1-on-1s and put that in a team context.

So if you’re looking for a more effective way to engage with your team, have better 1-on-1 and team dialogues, track progress, give and get feedback and build a culture of open communication, trust and transparency, then why not give Duuoo a try! And if you're already a Duuoo user, your support means so much to us 💪

25/01/2021

Founders partner Simon Sylvest sits down with Euroman to talk F1, the eternal optimism of the entrepreneur and his belief that company building is a discipline not an art.

https://www.euroman.dk/karriere/utraettelig-ivaerksaetter-simon-sylvest-har-brugt-corona-til-at-kickstarte-seks-virksomheder

20/01/2021

NEW STUFF cooking at Founders: Excited about the power of tech to radically improve healthcare delivery? ✊🏼 👾

We have some of the world's most talented healthcare professionals in Denmark. We spend >180bn DKK annually on our healthcare system, which is one of the 10 most expensive in the world. Still there are issues with the patient experience.

Writing in Dagbladet Information today, Founders partner Simon Sylvest calls on the government to prioritise a better user experience on their digital platforms amid rumours they plan to start a big rethink of the health system this year. Digital solutions can transform the patient journey and could even become Denmark's next big export adventure, he writes.

"I work daily with tech startups and we are busy making the complex simple so that the user experience is intuitive. I can only back up a new health agreement. Our healthcare system needs better coherence and digital tools can bind the various parts of the healthcare system together for a better patient process," he writes.

We are exploring ideas along these lines at Founders right now. If it's something you are passionate about this topic drop [email protected] a line today.
https://www.information.dk/debat/2021/01/ny-sundhedsaftale-boer-fokusere-paa-patienternes-digitale-brugeroplevelse

08/01/2021

“For us, it is not about destroying the old world, but about being part of the new. Because everything changes - and in the process there are opportunities to start new companies.”

Finans talks to our own “fortune teller” Stefano Zorzi about how he approaches his job as head of company creation at Founders. What will the labour market look like in 10 or 20 years? Education? Our way of building a life in general?

"We have to create new businesses every year, so we have to constantly ask 'what is needed in the future?' And how can tech entrepreneurs help people into the future and help create the future itself?

Check out this piece where he talks about our approach to company building and how shifts in the way we live and work created the demand and opportunity for companies including:

Butter - get paid on-demand for shift work
Kontist - banking and tax service for the self employed
Strive School - training the next generation of software engineers for the workplace
Wonderwerk - Data-driven sales enablement for remote teams
Tempo email - the email client that protects your focus
Headlight - simple, effective coaching for your work life - online, on subscription

https://finans.dk/indsigt/ECE12561075/med-en-halv-milliard-i-ryggen-han-opfinder-firmaer-til-fremtiden/?ctxref=ext

01/12/2020

Kiosk is our favourite way to spread news, updates and good vibes with co-workers at Founders. And it's on Product Hunt today!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/kiosk-tv

Cool event coming up? A tribute for your work wife’s birthday? Bigging up team wins and outstanding contributions? Reminders about building work? Photos from last night’s dinner? New girl joining the team today? Say it with Kiosk TV.

17/11/2020

In startup folklore it’s often this linear narrative about about the founder in a basement, attic, (or other small dark space) with this single burning idea that then turns into a great company. In reality, it’s often just about getting started in the first place.

This is one of the ideas that emerge Founders partner Stefano Zorzi's breakfast talk with Strive School co-founder Tobia De Angelis about his entrepreneurial journey so far — which has ranged from club running to B2B SaaS tools for onboarding new employees to managing payroll for remote workers to the colourful world of crypto kitties.🐱 🤖

Watch the video or read the transcript as they talk about falling down and getting back up on the winding road of company building.💥✨

After three pivots in as many years, Tobia de Angelis was just about ready to close down his company. Instead he took some time out and…

27/10/2020

Congratulations on this latest milestone in your mission to make beautiful clothes that don't cost the planet, Jess, Andreas and the whole Son of a Tailor team! Keep shaking up the fashion industry guys! ✊🏼💥

Det danske herretøjsmærke Son of a Tailor er lykkedes med at skaffe kapital i et ellers hårdt marked. Svensk kapitalfond nu blandt ejerkredsen, der i forvejen tæller prominente navne.