Save the date for Startup Sweden, Stockholm, December 2-4, 2011.

Startup Sweden is a 48 hour event that is all about doing. You can come as a DOER (team up with LIGHTBULB around their idea) or LIGHTBULB (team up with DOER and start working on your idea). Or if you already have a team and web service or app you’re working on, feel free to spend the event as a social work weekend.

More info and sign up (available in swedish only at the moment):
http://weekend.startupsweden.com/

The Startup Visa, supported by Brad Feld, Paul Graham and other well-known gurus and organizations, has now been introduced to the US Senate. It was since sent to the Judiciary Committee, which handles immigration issues. If it makes its way through there, it will be read again in the Senate and then voted on.

What is the Startup Visa?

• A 2-year visa for immigrant founders who have raised at least $250k or $100k per founder for their startup
• A green card after two years if the startup has at least: $1M in revenue, $1M in investor funding, or has hired 5 or more employees

Who is this useful for? Companies started by:

• Students in American universities on F visas
• Open-source contributers who have never met IRL before
• YCombinator applicants

Source: Startup Visa on Tumblr

Hopeful, huh?

More on http://www.startupvisa.com/ or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Startup-Visa-Act/335892766908 or http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/03/the-startup-visa-act-of-2011.html

My friend Per Jonsson started http://www.startawebbhotell.se/ just recently.

Here’s how it works:

Startawebbhotell.se from Omnicloud on Vimeo.

You will find them here:
http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos

Micro-loan organization Kiva.org now lets you lend money to students and/or their families to help them get through college. At the moment there are 802 students and families from different countries looking to receive financing. With Kiva.org you can lend as little as 25 dollars at a time.

Startup School is an open university for entrepreneurs from around the world. Watch recordings or organize live virtual events with like-minded founders and experts. Learn on demand what you really need. Upcoming sessions include Founders Interview with Max Skibinsky and Investor Interview with Mike Maples.

• Mike Maples - one of the most influential super angels in the valley
• Max Skibinsky - serial entrepeneur

Read more here

In Denmark a number of mentors, institutions and companies are arranging a TechStars inspired incubator “event” starting in August.

Startupbootcamp is a 3 month startup accelerator. We help you transform your startup idea by injecting cash, providing free incubator space and access to 50+ awesome mentors. By the end of the program you pitch at Investor Day. We are a northern European initiative affiliated with Techstars.

Apply now! Before it’s too late…

This summer Red Sky is organizing Global Startup Challenge 2010, a startup event starting July 1st and ending August 31st. Apply before June 16th! Project teams can include up to 3 people. Selected teams will be invited to Szczecin.

We’re inviting people from Poland and Europe to take part in a unique project!
It doesn’t matter if you live in Szczecin, Warsaw or Berlin!
It doesn’t matter if you only have an idea or a working internet project!
We welcome everyone ready to expend 2 vacation months for hard work.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a student, you just turned 18 or you’re long past thirty.
The reward may be unique – success in the global Internet!

Red Sky focuses on Internet related projects aimed at the global market and they will have specialists helping participants throughout the two months.

The most interesting projects will receive up to 200,000 euros in seed capital through the Buisness Angels’ Network AMBER, and the Starter Capital Fund Pomeranus Seed.

Anna at Cloudberry Communications pinged me saying that four Swedish start-ups were accepted to Seedcamp.

Crunchfish - mobile business applications. (Malmö)
Eurodocs - web-based business solutions with identity and privacy protection. (Stockholm)
Hypezoo - pre-release information on upcoming games and products. (Stockholm)
TuneRights - p2p commerce platform for the music industry. (Stockholm)

Complete list of participants here

We wish them the best of luck!

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