Blood, SWOT and Tears

The entrepreneurial life is often described as living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't. While that's mostly true, many successful entrepreneurs pay it forward and help the next generation once they succeed.

In this session, three speakers will share stories of hard graft, sucsess and failures, and how they're now helping to find and nurture the entrepreneurial stars of the future.

Speakers

Tobias Stone

Paul Iske

Professor at the School of Business and Economics, University Maastricht

Samantha Quist

Executive Director of Technovation

Technoport is a member-based organisation located in Trondheim, the technology and knowledge capital of Norway.

This conference would be impossible without the support of Technoport's seven members: NTNU, SINTEF, Statoil, the Municipality of Trondheim, the county authorities of South Trøndelag, Innovation Norway, and the savings bank Sparebank 1 SMN.

Also, Technoport has partners: Transnova, Enova, The county authorities of North Trøndelag, Kjeldsberg Eiendom.

At present our conference partners are: Investinor, Patentstyret, NORBAN, NxtMedia, NCEI Instrumentation, Entreprenørskolen, Spark NTNU, CenSES, Kosmorama and IPIN.