Sunday Swedish Startup News: Tictail, Doremir and Soundcloud
Each Sunday, we bring you Swedish technology companies who’ve been written about, or mentioned by the press. This week, Britain’s oldest business go online with Tictail, music app Doremir bought in $1M USD in investment and Soundcloud CEO Alex Ljung told us a little about emergent behaviour.
Britain’s oldest manufacturing firm rings in changes with online launch
“Whitechapel Bell Foundry launches first online store, selling handbells and doorbells direct via Swedish service Tictail”
“Svenska Doremir tar in 1 miljon dollar som ska användas till företagets fortsatta expansion. Doremir omvandlar spelad musik, eller nynnad, direkt till noter.”
Alexander Ljung on Emergent Behavior
“I’ve frequently said on this blog that emergent behavior in a service is a sign to me that the service is scaling into something important and valuable. It is a feature that we look for a lot in our investments. I don’t love it when entrepreneurs build services that are too tightly constructed around a single use case. I do love it when entrepreneurs build services that the users can take and do interesting things with. Here’s a short (3min) video where Alex Ljung, founder and CEO of our portfolio company SoundCloud, talks about how that happened in SoundCloud.”
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