This is a question we often receive here at DABGO after having sent an invitation, out of the blue, to a fellow Dane to join our rapidly growing network. We will get comments like “How did you find me? I have been here for 3 years and not run into anyone”.

Well, it certainly does not have to be that way. There are plenty of opportunities to strengthening you hopefully already great local network with an equally strong global Danish business network for the more effective combination.

Let us start with Linkedin. Your Linkedin network consists of your direct contacts, two degrees away and three degrees away. When you look for others, you should not just consider you direct contacts but certainly also 2nd and 3rd links.
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The DABGO Connection
When we learned about DABGO we were truly excited and joined immediately to meet fellow Danes here in Southern California and all over the region. Now we have learned that DAGBO has more than 1300 North American members - so we thought we could share our story about entrepreneurship and success in the US which many of the members probably can relate to.

A little about us
The reason we moved to the US 6½ years ago, was that Lars was accepted into Harvard Business School in their full time MBA program. And after graduation we moved to Chicago where Lars was busy setting up a subsidiary of Gumlink and Helle was busy having and dealing with twin daughters. 2½ years later we were ready to start our own business and made the big move to California.

While in Boston and Chicago we had numerous times experienced that our American friends loved the Danish design we have in our home and a simple mission was born:

“Let’s bring some of that great Danish designs to the Americans”.
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DABGO is now by far the largest network of Danish business people in North America. In the network you will find members from all the larger Danish companies, the Embassy and consulates and Danes working at the following large North American companies:

Sun Microsystems, Morgan Stanley, Yahoo, Johnson & Johnson, Ebay, Microsoft, Fidelity, Dell, CA, Wachovia, IBM, McKinsey, Harvard University, Oracle, GE, Accenture, MIT, Allstate, Pfizer, Merck, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, Perry Ellis, Metlife, Calvin Klein, Wells Fargo, HP, Google, MTV, NBC, Cisco and many more.

The possibilities of doing business and creating opportunities amongst Danes and the companies they represents has never been better.

The last few months we have seen a faster increase in the number of members, so make sure to check the new members in your area, and make a lunch appointment or arrange a meet up for all the Danes in your area. Remember, it’s up to You!