Etablerersenteret

During the past month I've been learning about business in Norway via the Hordaland Fylkeskommune, roughly the county government. It's been a great networking experience and I've learned a great deal about how businesses operate in Norway. Dealing with the government here is a much more uncertain propsition than I'm used to in the US. Here they say a lot "it depends", which roughly means that if you talk to the right person on the right day you can get what you want to get done done.

People everywhere are inherently entrepreneurial. It's about the same as all children start out as scientists. Not only do we start out asking questions about our world, but we also use our voices to try to get others to give us what we want. Call it the trading instinct. Norway is no different. It also has its own set of society's roadblocks to trade, but so does every place.

Today was an "alumni" reunion, where we got to meet and network with people woho have previously taken the business course. These are all really positive people and I should talk to them more.