{"id":1126,"date":"2018-08-30T14:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T12:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2025-04-08T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T17:55:08","slug":"interviews-with-startup-founders-fonn-byggemappen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/interviews-with-startup-founders-fonn-byggemappen\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviews with startup founders: Fonn Byggemappen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"lead\">Fonn Byggemappen is an iOS, Android and web application for construction industry projects. The tool\u2019s co-founder Jan Tore Grindheim told us about the beginnings and crucial moments of the app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In this series of our <em>interviews with startup founders<\/em>, we want to share <em>startup success stories<\/em> with you. With the team of these startups, we will try to answer the question of <em>how to start a startup company<\/em>. Keep on reading and learn about <a href=\"https:\/\/byggemappen.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Fonn Byggemappen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Inspirations: how to start a startup company?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I can tell you how it happened with us: with my background from a very process and document-oriented business, I saw a gap in the building industry, with no proper collaboration and completion tools for small and medium-sized projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With my own experience, the experience within my team of co-founders, and feedback from interviewing clients, <b>we found that the market for a tool like Fonn Byggemappen existed and the timing was perfect.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we planned to develop a project management tool with features like communicating and sharing files with team members, budget monitoring, milestones and delivering group notifications. <b>Our main goal was to transform time-consuming meetings and the chaos of documents and messages into a few clicks within a user-friendly app.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. What were the beginnings of your startup success story?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our pilot client, Idealhus AS, has supported us from the very beginning and has been able to put its signature on Fonn Byggemappen. A highly innovative and good manager, Nils Eirik \u00c5dnanes, dared to trust in us and our ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. How did you prepare to launch your startup?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Great co-founders!<\/b> Ingvald Grindheim and John Levi J\u00f8rgensen, were crucial in starting up Lean Konseptutvikling. We got a lot of support from Innovation Norway and Connect Norway. They funded most of our start-up costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My friend Tor Gj\u00f8s\u00e6ter also had a lot of experience in <em>app development<\/em>, and luckily agreed to help us and got us in contact with you, <a href=\"https:\/\/zaven.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zaven<\/a>. So, you delivered <em>an iOS, Android and web application<\/em> to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fonn-730x375.jpg\" alt=\"Interviews with startup founders\" class=\"wp-image-1127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fonn-730x375.jpg 730w, https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fonn.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. What is the biggest challenge for startup founders?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><b>The first few months, with no income and only expenses.<\/b> Setting up all the formal stuff and trying to sell an idea, not a product, in a (for me) completely new business segment was quite challenging, but extremely important to develop an understanding of what our clients actually need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Where is your startup now?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We are now starting to go up the \u201chockey stick curve\u201d, having already landed large clients with many more just days from signing. <b>It is very busy, but so much fun seeing our product actually reaching the market and getting this warm welcome.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidate for the 2017 Innovation Prize in the Norwegian building industry.<br>2 years in a row, awarded as one of the four best start-ups in western Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/byggemappen-thumb-730x438.jpg\" alt=\"App development founder interview\" class=\"wp-image-1128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/byggemappen-thumb-730x438.jpg 730w, https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/byggemappen-thumb.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Where do you see your startup in 5 years?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>50% of all new buildings in Norway will be using Fonn Byggemappen. Large entrepreneurs in all of the largest western countries will be using Fonn Byggemappen. <b>We will be working in other business segments with similar products like Marine, Oil &amp; Gas and many more<\/b>. I see this as a very inspiring <em>startup success story<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Fonn Byggemappen\u2019s <em>startup success story<\/em> shows us how to start a startup company in the construction industry market. Learn more about the project <a href=\"https:\/\/zaven.co\/projects\/byggemappen.html\">here<\/a>.<br>Feel free to share your comments and thoughts about inspiring startup stories or questions you would like to ask a startup founder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jan_tore_grindheim_iblog-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Interviews with startup founders: Lerni app\" class=\"wp-image-1129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jan_tore_grindheim_iblog-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jan_tore_grindheim_iblog-730x730.jpg 730w, https:\/\/zaven.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jan_tore_grindheim_iblog.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Jan Tore Grindheim<\/b><br><b>Co-founder at Fonn Byggemappen<br><\/b>15 years\u2019 experience in the oil &amp; gas industry; mostly management and completion.<br>Working 100% with Lean Konseptutvikling since 1 January 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fonn Byggemappen is an iOS, Android and web application for construction industry projects. 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