{"id":1876,"date":"2018-01-19T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvijaseres.com\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2018-04-23T18:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:54:04","slug":"norway-calling-all-u-s-and-u-k-tech-hipsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvijaseres.com\/norway-calling-all-u-s-and-u-k-tech-hipsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Calling All U.S And U.K. Tech Hipsters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Article in Forbes<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">With great housing that looks like posh New England, great schools and universities, great pay (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/gov\/GAAG2013_CFS_NOR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/gov\/GAAG2013_CFS_NOR.pdf\">Norway has one of the lowest Gini scores on the planet according to the OECD<\/a>), year-round social and sports, chi chi caf\u00e9\u2019s, restaurants and shopping, and a population speaking English fluently, Norway smashes it!<\/p>\n<p>Norway has a massive stock of world-class software-engineering talent, a thriving tech ecosystem, and a track record of venture investing and exits. Often overlooked for Sweden with its big retail tech plays like Skype, Spotify, and Klarna, Norway has a track record in B2B exits to big U.S. firms like Microsoft (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Development_Center_Norway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Development_Center_Norway\">FAST<\/a>), Cisco (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/about\/corporate-strategy-office\/acquisitions\/tandberg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/about\/corporate-strategy-office\/acquisitions\/tandberg.html\">Tanberg<\/a>) and Texas Instruments (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ti.com\/analog\/docs\/enggresdetail.tsp?familyId=0&amp;genContentId=3573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:http:\/\/www.ti.com\/analog\/docs\/enggresdetail.tsp?familyId=0&amp;genContentId=3573\">Chipcon<\/a>)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lawrencewintermeyer\/2018\/01\/19\/norway-calling-all-us-and-uk-tech-hipsters\/2\/#ae6cc2251128\">Read the article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article in Forbes With great housing that looks like posh New England, great schools and universities, great pay (Norway has one of the lowest Gini scores on the planet according to the OECD), year-round social and sports, chi chi caf\u00e9\u2019s, restaurants and shopping, and a population speaking English fluently, Norway smashes it! Norway has a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/silvijaseres.com\/norway-calling-all-u-s-and-u-k-tech-hipsters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Norway Calling All U.S And U.K. Tech Hipsters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Norway Calling All U.S And U.K. Tech Hipsters - Silvija Seres<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silvijaseres.com\/norway-calling-all-u-s-and-u-k-tech-hipsters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Norway Calling All U.S And U.K. Tech Hipsters - Silvija Seres\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Article in Forbes With great housing that looks like posh New England, great schools and universities, great pay (Norway has one of the lowest Gini scores on the planet according to the OECD), year-round social and sports, chi chi caf\u00e9\u2019s, restaurants and shopping, and a population speaking English fluently, Norway smashes it! 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