Finally some positive news from the Swedish Govern...

The Swedish government announced a significant and surprising move to increase the creation of new ventures and to foster a greater degree of entrepreneurship. It was reported in yesterday’s Dagens Industri that the capital requirement for a new limited company – aktiebolag or AB – would be drastically cut from the ridiculous 100,000 SEK to 1 SEK. This change will put us in league with the UK and the...

All of Europe like Skansen...

John Naisbitt has a new book coming out in a few weeks called, Mind Set!: Re-Set Your Thinking and See the Future. For those of you who don’t remember, Naisbitt wrote the monster book, Megatrends in 1982. Well this time he makes an interesting prediction about Europe. He predicts the steady decline of Europe. He states basically that the EU and Europe itself will never get it act together because historical/political...

For Göran Persson Party is more important than co...

Yesterday the moderate coalition won the Swedish national elections. So after over 10 years we will have a new Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt and a more conservative government (thank goodness). But one thing that disturbed me last night was how the loser and outgoing Prime Minister Persson handled it. This may point to one difference between the US and Sweden or at least between the Social Democratics and most civilized...

Leveraging the technology...

Read this article on how Howard Dean is leveraging the technology in a bid to gain the Democratic nomination for President. Hopefully Zephyr Teachout, Internet director for Howard Dean’s presidential run, knows more about Internet marketing strategy than she seem to know about the technical details of the operations. Either way there are powerful lesson for business in the Dean campaign. Think this can be applied...

Tis the Season for Swedish Scandals, Fal, la,la,la...

It is ironic that although Sweden has been named one of least corruption ridden countries in the world as pointed out by the Transparency International, it is at the same time marred in some large, public business scandals. Sweden is not alone in these problems. It is quite clear that the United States has had its share of corporate scandals including some of the biggest (i.e., Enron, WorldCom, etc.). But, the question...