Monthly Archives: July 2010

Last week, the Meltwater management team met in San Francisco for our annual Executive Leadership Training through Oxford University.

Meltwater’s objective is to become one of the top 100 software companies in the world within the next five years. This is a pretty incredible goal, so Meltwater is investing in external training from some of the world’s most respected educational institutions to make sure that we are prepared for the challenges ahead of us.

A major focus of this particular session was the concept of how personality affects behavior, and how to make the most of each individual’s strengths and weaknesses.

We started by learning…

After never having advanced to a football world cup semi-final before, the Spanish team or “La Roja” (The Reds) as the team is called in Spain, went all the way and secured the title of World Champion last Sunday.

“Podemos!” (“we can!”) was the anthem that accompanied them during this year’s world cup.

Millions of people around the world watched the Spanish people celebrate this historical victory in the streets all over Spain and the Spanish people never seemed more united.

With regards to unity this is not so easy in Spain. History has divided the different regions (especially Catalonia (the capital being…

Meltwater News Berlin, 2005

How it all started:

Five years ago today was my first day at Meltwater. I had never heard about the company before I joined. I only knew that I was going to start in a sales role within a small Norwegian start-up that had ambitions to expand globally. The company had only 60 employees in Northern Europe back then and together with two Norwegian managers (Ingolf and Fredrik), our team of four new hires ( Christiane, Sonna, Inga and myself) entered the German speaking market. We opened our first office in Germany’s capital, Berlin.

Back then our office…