Startup inspiration for your ears
June 26, 2024
BY Nina Lyhne
Don’t forget to relax and recharge your batteries during your summer vacay. We have picked out a handful of amazing startup podcasts that can inspire you while you are taking a stroll in the park, going on a trip or chilling on the beach.
Pick #1 | Traction: Louise Herping Ellegaard: Sådan fik Innovation og VÆKST Clio fra Idé til SUCCES!
Co-Founder of Clio and one of the investors in ‘Løvens Hule’, Louise Herping Ellegaard, talks about how Clio’s innovative approaches to creating an interactive learning platform made it one of the major Danish startup successes, which disrupted the entire industry and resulted in a successful exit to Bonnier.
The episode will give you valuable insights and practical advice to improve your own entrepreneurial journey and grow your startup.
Pick #2 | Iværksætterhistorier: TechBBQ – “Vi havde lavet det bedste event nogensinde, men måtte nedskalere igen!”
Meet the dedicated pioneer Avnit Singh, who is the CEO of TechBBQ – Scandinavia’s largest event for startups.
You’ll hear the story of TechBBQ from the early stage – including why ‘Barbeque’ is part of the name – and up until the toughest period Avnit has experienced during his time leading the event: when everything was canceled due to a certain pandemic.
The episode also points out the areas where Denmark still has great potential when it comes to building future unicorns.
Pick #3 | Bootstrapping: Stine Colding Altrup – Helt skæv diversitet. Hvem kan gøre hvad?
The episode takes the temperature on the diversity agenda in the startup ecosystem with one of the leading experts in the field: Stine Colding Alstrup, CEO and founder of Intentional and one of the women behind Diversity Commitment. What tools do Bødskov and co. have to combat ingrained biases and create more gender equality. And how are the initiatives we have taken in the ecosystem actually progressing?
Pick #4 | The Kitchen startup stories: Simon Mølgaard: From postdoc to CEO
How do you go from being a postdoc to becoming the CEO of a biotech spinout and raise more than 220 million DKK?
Find out in this episode, where co-founder of Teitur Trophics Simon Mølgaard shares his journey.
Entrepreneurship has become not just a career path for Simon, but a way of making a difference – and creating a job he loves every single day.
Pick #5 | Visionærerne: Mette Lykke: En forretning too good to go
Mette Lykke was a co-founder of the running app Endomondo, which was sold for half a billion, and now she is working on building something even bigger as the international CEO of the food waste app Too Good To Go. In this episode, the entrepreneur from Western Jutland, who doesn’t like to hear herself speak, talks about quitting the solid and well-paid consulting job at McKinsey to dive into the deep waters of entrepreneurship with three colleagues.
