Posts tagged “entrepreneurship”
Israel – The Startup Nation Extraordinaire
I finally managed to finish Dan Senor’s and Saul Singer’s Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. It is truly an outstanding book, I have to say. I wrote about it before in my blog and I knew back then it was good, but boy was it good. It was based on over 100 [...]
Finland needs to seriously rethink its strategy towards entrepreneurship
I thought of writing about this to ArcticStartup since it relates to the startup ecosystem so closely, but decided to post it on my personal blog as it is such a strong personal opinion. Taxes in society work to distribute wealth, run governmental organisations to generate services for everyone, enable running of cultural services that [...]
Partnering With Kisko Ventures
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 [...]
Innovation In Large Companies Is Like Inflation
I was walking home last night from the Startup Christmas party in downtown Helsinki, organised by GrowVC and Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, I came up with an interesting way of looking at our innovation system from the national perspective. Innovation, as we all know, is an extremely hot topic among politicians as they try to dig [...]
Variety And Understanding It All
I’ve been working from home for about 1,5 months now. At first it felt really odd having to stay at home the whole day and not leave the house, but I’ve learned to live with this in a way that it feels pretty natural. I take occasional breaks and walks outside to clear my head. [...]