The past few weeks have been hardcore all-in with the team to level up in the game of scaling up faster. It has allowed for great learning and interaction with the team, partners, and clients — As the week was about to begin, I had been able to charge my batteries with a bike tour in the Oslo surroundings, where summer is going over to autumn. I had a great time talking to a climate-positive, carbon-negative pioneer over a coffee in suburban Stockholm. Over a nice…

Working in the Nordics with the energy transition, allows for a lot of interaction with both established and new businesses. The scene of innovation I experience here, is tackling the whole value chains, and we need to collaborate to make this happen. A shift in the technologies, systems and ways…

The energy transition is not something we can allow ourselves to wait for. The actions we need to take now. Making the shift, also requires scale, to make an impact. Our industrial activities need to shift their power sources, and we need to scale up the renewable sources, but also…

Accelerating the Deployment of New Technology. — Disruption and innovation are unprecedented in virtually all fields — and sectors not disrupted are up for it. Likewise, it is a battle for technological leadership, as being number two will not be enough, whether a commercial company, corporate or government. Thanks to extremely advanced smart chips, the most complex…

I am a builder. And at the core is the team. At Rocsole, we have created a pandemic child, as most of the team has joined during the past two-three years. And we have learned at a very high pace, learning from mistakes, building extremely good internal work processes, collecting…

Doing ventures is extremely demanding and exciting. In the early phase of the venture, you are probably pivoting, pivoting, and pivoting, to get a paying customer as this also shows that you can provide value. And you hit some other early milestones and have some early seed phase funding. But…

During the past months, I have been fortunate to take part of events throughout Europe that are part of shaping the future — in terms of innovation, financing, collaborations, acquisitions, and business deals. Perhaps we have been too laid back previously in Europe concerning enabling innovation to make an impact…

Enjoyed my days this year at the Websummit in Lisbon — yes a crazy big event, long entrance queues (all eager to get into action!), partly crowded; but also a lot of fantastic interaction with other entrepreneurs, founders, service providers, policy makers, investors, shareholders and much more; such as good…

Scaling in “boring” businesses Over the past years, at ROCSOLE, we have been working intensely with tens of international corporates to help them remove crucial pain points from operating assets and create unique values — we talk about energy production systems and industrial manufacturing processes. Global industries suffer from unplanned shutdowns and maintenance; up…