Office with a view
In June, we swap our desks at home for a stay in the Innovation House in Magnolia, Massachusetts, to work together, hang out and have lots of fun.
A seaside house with a large garden, instead of a regular office space. For a few weeks in June, we swap our desks for a place in the sun in Magnolia, Massachusetts, about 50 kilometers north of Boston.
Our team is spread all over the world. That’s why we meet up every summer in the Innovation House a magnificent New England building, with our families to work together, hang out and have lots of fun. More.
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Let’s go under the browser hood with Vivaldi’s Yngve
Building your own Chromium-based browser is a lot of work, unless you want to just ship the basic Chromium version without any changes. In this post, Yngve breaks it down for you. More
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Dohop workshop at the Magnolia Innovation House
Team Dohop workshop at the Magnolia Innovation House in November. Dohop is the technology company behind the Dohop flight search engine. Founded in Iceland in 2004, our strength is the ability to compile airline schedules into a network which allows us to build and book unique itineraries. We run Dohop.com, the winner of 2016 World Travel Awards where our users can leverage our technology to find cheap flights, hotels and cars. We also supply airfares to the Russian search giant Yandex for Eastern-European travelers.
In 2015 Dohop was approached by Gatwick Airport which had noticed that passengers were self-connecting (i.e. manually booking two separate tickets) through the airport. Gatwick thought that Dohop’s booking technology combined with their on-site support desk would greatly benefit these passengers as they wouldn’t need to self connect anymore – they would virtually interline and have their flight connection protected by Gatwick (self-connecting passengers are more exposed to flight disruptions). Launched in the fall of 2015, GatwickConnects caught the attention of big airlines who sought out to extend their own network reach. Dohop and easyJet embarked on a joint project named Worldwide by easyJet where we build and book unique itineraries between easyJet and it’s partners. Worldwide by easyJet was developed and launched this summer and is accessible on easyjet.com. We are very grateful to have been invited to stay and work at the Innovation House in Magnolia.
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Select USA
Delegation from Innovation House Seltjarnarnes visited Innovation House in Magnolia and all kinds of companies, Innovation centers, Business labs, Investors and Entrepreneurs in Boston in September 2017. The main objective with this trip was for the startups to learn how to establish a business in the US and meet with potential partners.
The delegation visited Massachusset Office of International Trade and Investment, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Innovation Center, Harvard Innovation Labs, Venture Café, Google, Techstars, the Grommet and more.
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Latest updates from Innovation House Magnolia, USA
We finished the renovations by June 1st, we filled the house up with company friends and workers, plus some of their family. We bought kayaks and a canoe and a paddle board. We added desks to every room to enable guests to work from them or visitors to pick one to work from if they are not occupied. We have a lovely Innovation House flag blowing in the sea breeze. We have more traditional office work space for 16 rigged up too.
We added a new air conditioning system , and upgraded the plumbing to be able to accommodate a full house. We have added a fire alarm system and we have put in some new flooring and some new furniture to make it possible to have meetings gatherings and visitors.
Our aim is still to be here for our American friends, our start-ups from IH in Iceland, and from Start up labs in Norway, and of course, other places in the world. Some have been here already and will continue to visit.
We have companies coming for team gatherings and we have some guests coming from Iceland working on maritime projects to meet with similar companies here in Gloucester to see how they can work together. We have our in house Start-up www.ovathebridge.com focusing on the local businesses and with their many members in this area helping us to get acquainted.
The Innovation house is once again white and we also painted the chimneys white with a black stripe at the top, this being in line with the history from this area that used such painting of the chimney’s to signify to the slaves on the run that it was a “safe- house “. We have done our renovations with the admiration of the history of the grand house, we have added some modernizations but we have kept and intend to maintain the original style.
For more information on the Innovation House contact Anne@vivaldi.com
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Icelandic Minister at Innovation House U.S.
Iceland’s minister of industry and commerce visited Gloucester on Saturday as part of a reception at Innovation House in Magnolia celebrating the burgeoning commercial relationship between Iceland and the United States.
Minister Ragnheiour E. Arnadottir, spoke at the invitation-only reception along with Innovation House founder — and Gloucester resident — Jon von Tetzchner.
“The minister was at the launch and opening of our Innovation House in Reykjavik and is a supporter of our concept of bridging out and reaching beyond Iceland for innovation,” said Anne Stavnes, head of office human resources and culture at Innovation House.
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