HawkTalk

What makes a founder, and how is entrepreneurship different from other forms of business-building? Meet Jörgen, CEO of Nordic BIM Group, and hear about the journey from three sub-scale national businesses towards a European powerhouse.

His grandparents ran hairdressers, butchers, and introduced fiberglass boats to Denmark. Now Frank is running multiple businesses together with his wife, kids, and sister-in-law, so entrepreneurship clearly runs in the family. After building an electricity provider, they figured out that all of their competitors needed a one-stop-shop IT system, which became Whitelabels. This podcast is about a serial entrepreneur that never stops building.Contents:01:10 Intro to Whitelabels02:15 The story of a serial entrepreneur06:40 The customer value proposition08:30 Entrepreneurship as a family tradition11:45 Why selling to Hawk, after multiple previous exits?14:15 Keep grinding, never retire17:55 New horizons20:05 Denmark as a startup nation

Meet Nicolai, co-founder of Bazoom, which is the world’s first marketplace for back-links to optimise your Google search rankings. Coming out of the search engine optimisation (SEO) community in Aarhus, Denmark, Bazoom is professionalising a global industry that shapes our everyday search experience. We talk about how to build a performance culture, right-sizing the organisation, search in the age of AI, how to create a better internet, and more.Contents:02:43        Intro to Bazoom06:55        Nicolai and the founder journey12:48        Creating a better internet18:20        Search in the age of AI28:42        Journey with Hawk, incl. scaling and right-sizing the organisation47:43        Bazoom going forward

Daivaras shares from his entrepreneurial journey with several family businesses, the successful Robolabs journey in Lithuania, and now two ongoing new ventures out of Singapore. His broad set of skills and interests mirrors the Robolabs accounting system, which integrates with every part of the business of the customers.Contents:00:00 What is Robolabs?02:25 Intro to Daivaras, his co-founder Deivydas, and their founder journey08:45 The value proposition of fully automated accounting12:55 Focused customer needs, yet broad and integrated product18:35 Exit process with Hawk22:50 Next steps for Robolabs and the founders28:15 Advice to aspiring founders

Møt Espen og Henrik fra Semac som tilbyr bakgrunnssjekk ved f.eks. nyansettelser. Angrep mot norske arbeidsgivere øker i en vanskelig geopolitisk sikkerhetssituasjon, samtidig som våre IT-systemer får stadig sterkere cybersikkerhet. Dermed blir illojale ansatte en viktigere inngang både for statsfinansiert spionasje og for kriminelle. Samtidig avdekker Semacs bakgrunnssjekk Ola og Kari som jukser på CVen og sikrer dermed en mer rettferdig ansettelsesprosess.Innhold:02:10 Intro til Semac04:25 Hvorfor bakgrunnssjekk?09:45 Hvordan gjennomføres en bakgrunnssjekk?12:10 Hvordan oppleves det for den som får sin bakgrunn sjekket?15:10 Gründerreisen20:50 Kundenes behov24:25 Vitnemål og mastersyke26:35 Geopolitikk og samfunnssikkerhet34:00 Samarbeidet med Hawk36:20 Fremtidens bakgrunnssjekk