It is organised independently and uses the #cphftw tag to signal that it is an open event for the startup community in general. It has however no connection to the bigger town hall meet-ups, but rather an event created by Thore Fogh Johansen from the startup Usertribe.

“The idea came before #cphftw actually. I have now for many years been in a startup with five or fewer people (today we are 10), and with so few people it’s hard to host a real summer party. Therefore, the idea to join forces with other small startups and entrepreneurs and get a great well deserved celebration.” says Thore to Trendsonline.

Behind the reasoning is also that tickets are limited to max 10 per startup.

It definitely sounds like a different event and a really cool idea. Even if some have expressed that it is not really as open as they would have hoped for events using the #cphftw flag – with tickets being at 800 dkk, it is rather (very) expensive compared to standard startup event. They include however 2 hour of surf session at the cable park and free drinks and food. And compared to normal company party events, that is rather OK price-tag.

The event is limited to 100 participants, so if you don’t want to miss the chance to be part of what might be the last summer party for this summer, get your tickets here. The event is open for both entrepreneurs as well as employees in startups. The participants list includes already people from Graduateland, 23 and Iconfinder.

When: 29th of August
Where: Copenhagen Cable Park
Tickets: Get them at Greenticket. Either 800 dkk including surf, or 500 dkk without surf-time.

Read more over at Trendsonline about the background of the event. The image was also ‘stolen’ from the great people at Trendsonline, without permission.

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The Top 3 nominees in each category have been announced, including Copenhagen startups we’ve been following. Here’s a summary of those nominees to look out for in their respective categories, for the full list check the e-handelsprisen list.

Category 3 – Best new e-commerce company Nominee eBogholderen works in paperless, digital accounting and bookkeeping services. EasyTranslate is a growing professional global network of translators and services.

Category 8 – Growth Prize features Trustpilot, the consumer-review community again appearing as prize nominees, along with their nomination to the Red Herring Europe Top 100 in March.

Category 7 – Best marketing campaign features Miinto, also nominated for Category 10 Best Tool for E-Commerce. We’ve been watching closely these fashion retailers from Denmark who are now hosting sales of over 15,000 brands, and increasing presence and reporting continuous positive results.

Category 10 – Best Tool for E-Commerce nominees along with Miinto, are Komfo and Usertribe. Komfo is an IT and consultancy company, developing websites and services for people to share knowledge and information with each other, mainly helping with customers work with Facebook. Komfo was founded in Copenhagen in 2007, and in early 2010 were accredited as Facebook Preferred Developers. Usertribe provides a service to deliver insights that is used to optimize online stores, websites, mobile websites, mobile apps, designs and campaigns. The Danish crowd based user testing tool came about in 2010 when Thore Fogh Johansen needed an ‘easy to use’ tool to complete his online business optimization tool box.

The ceremony on 23 May 2013, in Falkonérsalen in Frederiksberg to award the best of these will be one of the major events in the industry, celebrating the year’s most successful contemporary e-retailers.

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