On February 18th, I blogged about employment and people’s expectations of it. In the post I also touched on the issue of labor unions and how they affect people’s lives these days, unfortunately too often in a negative way. To my readers outside Finland, we’re just into the second large nationwide strike this week from [...]
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 wouldn’t [...]
Google Street View has finally arrived to Finland and of course I had to drive around to my old place to see if my bike was there. :)
Back in January I helped a man called Saul Singer on some facts regarding Finnish entrepreneurship and the ecosystem we have. He told me he was writing a book about Israel and its startup ecosystem, thus I was glad to help the man in his project. Today I saw a tweet from Saul Singer that [...]
I’ll be heading to Tampere (too!) early tomorrow morning. Why? One of the best Finnish conferences is being held there, Mindtrek. It’s a 2-day conference and will see some 800 people all together over the course of the two days. Needless to say I’m glad the conference has taken a big role towards promoting startups [...]