B2 · Upper Intermediate
Innovation & Startups
From a napkin sketch to a scaling company: the Danish words for founding, funding and growing a new venture.
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- Words & phrases
- 24
- Lessons
- 2
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 2
A preview of what you’ll master
Words you’ll make your own.
Explore every meaning in this unit. Learn how to say it in Danish when you start.
- entrepreneur
- startup
- idea
- to innovate
- invention
- to invent
- funding, financing
- investor
- venture capital
- business model
- to scale
- prototype
- product
- risk
- breakthrough
- patent
- founder
- profitable
- to network
- to pitch
- to disrupt
- innovation
- to bootstrap
- a pioneer
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Understand the why
Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Innovation and Startups
- Lesson 2
Launching a Startup
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