#15 - Tine Thygesen of Everplaces
In our 15th episode we talk to Tine Thygesen of Everplaces, Copenhagen, Denmark based startup. We discuss location based services and how Tine got into entrepreneurship through her first startup in the e-commerce space in Australia. After selling that to an Australian company she came back to the Nordics to take on more entrepreneurial challenges first with Venture Cup Denmark and later with 23 Video before starting her own company Everplaces. She is also one of the founders of Founder's House, a co-working space in Copenhagen that now has 17 startups and some 70 people working there.
Everplaces Is A Breath Of Fresh Air Into Location Based Services
Everplaces is a new way to curate and save the favorite places you visit (or want to visit). The service is launching globally today from Copenhagen, Denmark. We talked to Tine Thygesen, one of the co-founders of the company about the company's plans and where they want to take it. Needless to say, they're still far from the bigger vision they want to achieve, but after playing around a little and using the service - it does bring a nice breath of fresh air into the location based space of services. As of today, the service launches with an online service as well as a mobile extension to help save those places while on the go.
One aspect of the bigger vision the company is after is to make sense of the masses of location based information out there. "Quality over quantity" as Thygesen herself put it. The basic function of the service is to curate the best locations all over the world through social connections. In the end, you would end up with interesting places to visit, each tagged under a descriptive tag.
Founders House Opens Its Doors To (Some) Startups
This week Danish entrepreneurs in Copenhagen celebrated the creation of Founders House, a new co-working space for start-ups. The space was created by 5 serial entrepreneurs because they felt Copenhagen was missing 'a coworking space exclusively for talented die-hard tech entrepreneurs', as they state on the Founder's House homepage. People behind the project include Simon Schock and Michael Clausen, co-founders of Sortedam Ventures and 4 other start-ups that are now residents of Founders House. Tine Thygesen, former CEO of Venture Cup Denmark and 23video and one of the co-fouders of Everplaces. Another founder of Everplaces, Angelica Vargas, is the fourth person behind Founders House. Last but not least, Christian Risom, co-founder of Shape (now part of Founders House) and two other start-ups: Bronco and Importles.
23 Launches Their Video Platform - 100+ Partners Already Signed Up
In Internet the video revolution has been just around the corner as long as I can remember and I don't think it has ever arrived. The reasons are many. Whether its video's hard-to-index nature when it comes to seeing what the content really says in comparison to text, or the fact that it takes quite a bit of bandwidth. Or because an interesting video is just so much harder to produce that an interesting blog post. That said, it has come a long way of which the most recent example is 23 Video, a video platform by a Danish startup 23 (see our previous story here).
The company attempts to set a new standard in the online video space. 23 wants to take online video from embedding from central services to creating a whole video sites where organizations can engage with consumers in their own brand universe. In the process they want to make building a video sites easy and inexpensive with their new turnkey solution. The big vision is to enable the company to communicate visually where they currently communicate by text.
