Sweden

8 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 2, 2016 by Frank Meehan · said 125 times in 43 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Everything said about Sweden, oldest first

Feb 2, 2016 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Horizons Ventures backed Spotify in 2010 when it was only in Sweden
“You know, we went into Spotify when they were still just in Sweden and just watched as it grew out. That's 2010.”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 3:07 He Sits on Spotify Board
Feb 2, 2016 positive
Insight
Meehan: Small domestic markets force startups in Sweden and Israel to go global
“The reason is, is because Swedes very similar to Israelis, very similar to Koreans work very hard, but have to go global. There's no real big home market. And I'm always like those type of markets because it forces the company to go global. It can't just sit o…”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 3:44 He Sits on Spotify Board
Apr 12, 2016
Disclosure
Mattisson: Visa restrictions forced me to return to Sweden to launch Minut
“And unfortunately I wasn't able to stay in the U S with my visa. So I basically had to leave and I moved back and started the company here.”
Nils Mattisson Apr 12, 2016 ▶ 3:29 From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230
Apr 18, 2016 neutral
Insight
Gatenholm: Swedish Series A rounds can be as small as $500,000
“A Swedish round a could be basically 500,000 dollars.”
Erik Gatenholm Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 9:24 He 3D Prints Body Parts And Will Do $4m in 2016 with Erik Gatenholm of CellInk EP 241
Apr 18, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gatenholm: Swedish convertible notes typically convert within 12 months
“But it needs to be converted typically within 12 months.”
Erik Gatenholm Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 11:00 He 3D Prints Body Parts And Will Do $4m in 2016 with Erik Gatenholm of CellInk EP 241
Oct 17, 2018
Disclosure
Hive Blockchain invests over $100M in Swedish crypto mining facilities
“The one in Sweden, we're investing over a hundred million US on both of the facilities there. So there'll, there'll be roughly 40 megawatts of capacity in, in a data center in, in, in Sweden there.”
Harry Pokrandt Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 3:30 1180 How He's Making $30m/Quarter Mining Ethereum Blockchain
Dec 14, 2018 negative
Opinion
Swedish SaaS companies lag the US in marketing efficiency, argues Karlsson
“And I think Sweden as a sauce sauce market, we are not really as good as you are over there in the U S with the marketing and lowering the cost of customer acquisition.”
Sebastian Karlsson Dec 14, 2018 ▶ 15:22 1238 With $50k in MRR, They Help Building Developers Scale
Dec 14, 2018
Disclosure
Homemaker funded its research and development using a revenue-based loan
“Yeah, and we are, we have just taken in some capital in form of round two. It's a revenue-based loan, which is quite new here in Sweden, and we just took that money and putting it into R&D for us to take a bigger share of wallet from our customers, because the…”
Sebastian Karlsson Dec 14, 2018 ▶ 5:59 1238 With $50k in MRR, They Help Building Developers Scale
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