Vidar Andersen
Vidar Andersen (b. 1975) is a Norwegian tech entrepreneur who:
- Founds startups to scratch his own itches
- Spreads education on how to build startups to founders and students as an advisor, investor, and educator
- Helps corporates achieve innovation 50x faster through science + entrepreneurship with +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES
Bookings: Speaking or Teaching | Free Open Office Hours
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Founder
- The Plone CMS, co-founder
- +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES, founder
- Gauss - The People Magnet, founder
- OneSec - An Instagram for One Second Videos, co-founder
- Rheinland Pitch, co-founder of Germany's largest startup pitching event
- blacktar.com, founder of his first company in 1996
- & more
Andersen speaking about what marketers can learn from startups at Estonia's largest marketing conference "Password", March 21st 2019.
Educator
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- University of Cologne
- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal
- BITS Iserlohn
- Qazvin Islamic Azad University (QIAU), Iran
- Cologne Business School (CBS)
- Dokuz Eylul University Izmir, Turkey
- NW University of Applied Science, Switzerland (NW)
- Knowmads Business University, Amsterdam
- Northern Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamburg
- Karlshochschule International University
- Maastricht University
- Cologne Polytechnical College
- USAID, Moldova
- Rheinland Pitch
- Pitching Masterclass
- & more
Above, a recording of the theoretical part of Andersen's Pitching Masterclass in Budapest, Hungary in 2018 courtesy of the Budapest Enterprise Agency. Download the slides featured.
Corporate Innovation with +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES
- Deutsche Telekom
- ABInBev
- AXA
- Philip Morris International
- Bertelsmann
- BARCO
- Henkel
- Yello Strom
- Telefónica
- Vebego
- Reifenhaeuser
- Traveltainment, The Amadeus Leisure Group
- Carlsen Publishers
- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal
- Mainzer Stadtwerke
- & more iconic brands under NDA
Andersen's keynote (view on RTL) "Why Corporate Innovation Fails" at RTL's Digital Shapers conference, Zagreb November 29th 2018.
Featured & Recognized
- The New York Times
- CNN
- Business Insider
- Forbes
- TechCrunch
- NCIIA @ Stanford (Lean Launchpad Educator Scholarship with Steve Blank & Jerry Engel)
- Wirtschafts Woche (Named "one of the one of the most important persons" in the German startup scene)
- The Innovator's Handbook 2018
- IndieGoGo (Featured Campaign, globally)
- Rude Baguette (Named "Top 5 People to Know" in the German startup scene)
- Startup Ambassador to the City of Düsseldorf, Germany
- Netzwertig
- SxSW Startup Ambassador to the State of NRW, Germany
- DViCE
- Nordic Startup Awards (Winner, People's Choice Norway)
- Die Welt
- SlideShare ("Slide of the Day", multiple times)
- Accenture
- USAID
- BBC Click
- University of Deusto, Bilbao (Global Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program GEAP Scholarship received)
- NY1
- Kabel Eins
- Ketchum Report
- Monaco Media Forum
- Startup America
- c'n'b Conference (Winner, Most Innovative German Business)
- MLOVE
- StartupBus (Buspreneur, BeNeLux)
- Up Global
- Rheinische Post
- & more
Speaker, Panelist & MC
- SxSW, Texas
- LeWeb, Paris
- Web Summit, Dublin & London
- Stanford, California
- dmexco, Cologne
- Pirate Summit, Cologne
- TEDx Hamburg
- Cambridge, England
- Intrapreneurship Conference London
- Shahid Beheshti University Tehran, Iran
- Password, Tallinn
- Maastricht Week of Entrepreneurship
- Global Entrepreneurship Week
- Tech Cocktail Austin
- World Business Dialogue
- Rheinland Pitch (Germany's largest startup pitch event)
- DRadio Wissen
- WDR Fernsehen
- RuhrSummit
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Advance Day Cologne
- Startup Pirates
- Lean Camp
- Campus Party Berlin
- Interactive Cologne
- Global Startup Weekend Facilitator (retired)
- Global Corporations under NDA
- & more
Organizer
- Lean Launchpad Cologne
- Lean Launchpad Dusseldorf
- Startup Next Cologne (retired)
- Social Media Lunch Cologne (retired)
- Hacker News Meetup Cologne (retired)
- Startup Weekend Cologne (retired)
- StartupBus (Producer BeNeLux, retired)
- & more
And that was only during the recent years. In the 15 preceding years, Andersen was an on and off employee in various highly specialised companies helping large international companies and organizations like Statoil, TeeKay Shipping, Shell, Esso, Exxon, T-Mobile International, Deutsche Telekom, Lufthansa, The Royal Norwegian Government, The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research with innovation and digitalisation - in between founding his own companies. You can find more information about the preceding years on the LinkedIn profile.