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I haven’t disclosed this earlier, but now that the e-mails are out to wish our upcoming clients and partners happy holidays with more news about the concept itself – I’m excited to disclose that I’m one of the partners behind Kisko Ventures. While I’m one of the founding partners in the team, this is in no way endangering my role and work at ArcticStartup – I still continue to head the company and make sure we reach our goals with our team.

However, I’m joining forces with Lauri Jutila and Antti Akonniemi, the co-founder duo behind Kisko Labs, as an advisor. We’re building a company that will help very early stage entrepreneurs with their services and prototypes. We focus in online and put in sweat equity to exciting ideas in the form very practical advice as well as service prototypes. While we work with very early stage entrepreneurs, we try to link the best we’re willing to invest in to our network of investors to help them take the company to the next level. I personally see this as helping out the entrepreneur and investor in getting a better deal with each other; the investor is able to lower risk and the entrepreneurs are able to get better valuations with a working prototype.

Goes without saying, but I’m looking forwards to 2010 working together with Antti and Lauri to put our mind and energy into some of the most exciting ideas out there. If you’re an investor or a passionate person with a great idea – don’t hesitate to drop us an e-mail. We’re more than glad to sit down and have a talk on how we can move things forward.