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I'm very happy to see the first pure online and technology driven company take place on the prominent list of Nasdaq Stockholm Large Gap, the back bone of Swedish industry.  It really proves that technology driven companies based on great  entrepreneurs,  engagement dedication really is the future.   Source for input below  http://www.knutsson.se/ The gaming company Betsson continues its strong growth and is now the first pure internet company to be listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Large Cap. During the last year, Betsson’s revenue amounted to SEK 2.9 billion (rolling 12 months until September 2014), indicating a year-on-year growth that exceeds 16 percent. Betsson qualified to be upgraded to the Large Cap list January 1st, 2015 as its market capitalization has been greater than EUR 1 billion over the past two years, which is the requirement to be upgraded. “It is very gratifying that our long-term efforts are paying off. The fact that Betsson is entering ...

Edge Academy takes place all over Netlight - our own intimate technology festival that for many of us is the true highlight of the year. As always the program with all the highly current and engaging sessions are stunning, a fantastic smorgosbord ready to be served. To the question "what does Netlight do?" the program of Edge Academy, see below, will serve as an answer better than many others. As always, as a genuine consultants we do what is important to our clients and what is hard and challenges ourselves. Edge Academy is made by us consultants, for us consultants. Based on our shared engagement in ourselves, in each other and in our clients.  Out of "We serve nothing but provide everything" and " Boid in Control " we get Edge Academy. http://academy.netlight.com/ Monday Architecture and Object Oriented Design With Solid Principles and Onion Architecture (Sth) Azure Services Overview With Real Life Examples (Sth...

You as a leader will impact teams, organization and company around you wheather you want it or not What kind of leader you are will obviously impact other leaders and the company culture. People don’t do what you tell them to do, but what you do. Therefore make sure to take a minute now and then to think about how you are as a leader, how others perceive you and how you’re impacting others. It’s unfortunately very easy to introduce the culture of cold blooded blame game and individualism just because you’re stressed and frustrated. But believe me, you don’t want to go there…not for yourself and not for the sake of your company or anyone else… Remember and remind yourself about the levels-of-culture from “Tribal Leadership” that applies for any group of people, team, organization or whole company? ·           "All life sucks!"       Stage One:  The stage most professionals skip, these are tribes whose members are despairing...

Boid is a legendary AI program from the 80ies. It is about emergent systems, i.e. self-organising organisations, where the whole is greater that the individuals, but the individuals are in command. Boid is short for “bird-oid”, i.e. bird robot, and simulates bird flocks. In a flock every boid decides which direction to take based on simple principle guidelines. Every boid is also paying attention to the group and thereby something greater emerges. One boid can get the entire flock to change direction, but no boid is leading the group. One boid or several might be at the front pointing out the direction, but they can also retire into to group and the group decides whether they follow or not. If no boid was flying the flock wouldn’t get anywhere. If all boids were flying independently of each other, they would be alone. If no boid took the lead the flock would eventually crash. In Command is an encouragement to everyone to take command to handle every situation yourselves. Becaus...

Edge is our everlasting search for relevant competence and how we maintain and grow it (just like we have our everlasting search for the right talents and the right engagements) Edge is making sure we as a company have the necessary current valuable competence and to make sure that shared competence bring value to each and every client of ours. Edge is how Netlighters create together, challenges each other and creates an inspiring working climate together, for all to develop and grow within.  Fragments from my opening speach at Netlight Edge Conference 2014, Oslo; A year has passed since last year’s Edge Conference, when we met in Clarion, Stockholm. And what a year. I get moved to tears when I hear about all the amazing deliveries we’ve made out there. Without naming any of the client we’ve helped, looking at the value we’ve been providing, the increase in revenue, the increase in share price or merely the public success and growing brand recognition. It’s cle...

Very engaging presentation by Marten Blankesteij, CEO Blendl, about the highly interesting product Blendl.nl - today at Netlight Edge Conference 2014 in Oslo. "Young people will never pay for newspaper articles anymore" - just like "Young people will never pay for musik anymore"...right? :-) "Blendl is described as “the sexiest paywall in the world”. All major Dutch publishers have joined, as well as The Economist. Previously, Blankesteijn was editor-in chief of a travel magazine and editor of one of the biggest newspapers." The story of success - once again it has been proven; Focus on user value - if your product provides value obvious to the user, the user is willing to pay for it. Focus on user experience - make it easy and make it obvious, focus on what is important. Care about your user and dare to trust the user - trust will provide a better user experience and a better brand recognition, it always show if you care for real....

Netlight Edge Conference, Oct 5th 2014 - the 5th edition of our own grandios technology conference. http://ec.netlight.com/ This year the conference will be held in Oslo with our Oslo office hosting the event and we're expecting more than 500 visitors. Media will sort of be the theme of the day. The reason we chose media is not that it’s hot and trendy right now but rather that we see media currently leading and driving technology forward. The industry have been up to a huge challenge, and still ongoing, in going from traditional print to digital. And the challenge to take online from being simply a marketing channel, free of use for the customers a couple of years ago, to provide ones full product portfolio and all service offerings online today, experimenting with different alternatives of payment wall strategies. Netlight loves media and are very much involved in all the main players in Stockholm, Oslo and more and more in Munich. During the Swedish elections recentl...