{"id":197062,"date":"2019-11-22T00:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=197062"},"modified":"2019-11-22T00:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:54:44","slug":"first-day-of-slush-offers-a-mixed-bag-of-innovative-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/first-day-of-slush-offers-a-mixed-bag-of-innovative-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"First day of Slush offers a mixed bag of innovative inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suzanne de Kok Selstad is the CEO of a Norwegian start-up consulting organisation. She lives in Stavanger and is a first-time visitor of Slush<\/strong>, the annual innovation and Start-up festival in Helsinki. She writes about her experiences at “the World’s LeadingStart-up Event<\/a>” for Innovation Origins.<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally my first live Slush in Helsinki! I streamed it for four years but hadn’t been able to actually visit the festival. My daily job, being the CEO of a partnership called ‘Skape<\/a>‘, where we offer free consultancy and education for start-ups in the Rogaland county in Norway. This is on behalf of our owners, the 26 communities, and our Rogaland fylkekommune<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Today, I met a lot of people who are considering to start a company or people who already have started one, everything from ‘basic’ to matured entrepreneurs, innovative ones as well as the ones that still have to do their research while establishing their company. I met investors, public funders and politicians who have to decide about creating public funding possibilities to help start-ups. Politicians are in the position to change the purchasing system, so start-ups can have some assistance to reach their markets.<\/p>\n

Slush! We, me and my colleague need inspiration and learn from others, so it is great to be here, together with<\/p>\n