Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

From startup Rovio in Finland. It came from an amazing small startup in McKinney, Texas (30 miles North of Dallas) called NewToy , which they acquired. Think the next big startup can’t come from Dallas, TX? Think again. Angry Birds? Think USV is only invested around Union Square in NYC?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

I say this because Finland, where I come from, is really bad at this. I see it as the single biggest issue for Finland’s competitiveness moving forward. And if there is push back, there is something wrong with society and not with the individual (joining the company).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2011

It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week. Sixteen startups were created during the weekend.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Today Finland officially becomes first nation to make broadband a legal right – [link]. The 7 Essential Steps to Creating Your Content Masterpiece – [link]. 1 Million Entries Later, crowdSPRING Still Going Strong – [link]. The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy – [link]. College study skills getting worse – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Today Finland officially becomes first nation to make broadband a legal right – [link]. The 7 Essential Steps to Creating Your Content Masterpiece – [link]. 1 Million Entries Later, crowdSPRING Still Going Strong – [link]. The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy – [link]. College study skills getting worse – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2012

But in the case of Helsinki, Finland-based location-based app Grafetee (www. It’s currently relatively in wide use in Finland, and the Poliisi – the Finnish Police – intends to tap on the app as a public safety tool and help make neighborhoods safer. You know something’s serious when the police gets involved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 11, 2013

Right now, Peter Sandeen is probably sailing with his wife and dogs while the weather is still warm (he lives in Finland). Have you been disappointed by a purchase? What expectations weren’t met?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2013

from Finland in the coming month, so we recruited him to teach us about a new technology that would accelerate the work on our project while providing feedback and support for him and his CAAN back home. Align with others to leverage the tasks that are already on the list. For example, I discovered that a colleague was visiting the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

Shortcomings related to labor and international ambition create a widespread opportunity for innovation, allowing entrepreneurs to take advantage of its connected country ecosystems such as those in the UK, United States, Finland, Norway, and Denmark, among others.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Last week in Helsinki Finland at a dinner with a roomful of large company CEO’s, one of them asked, ”What can we do to help build an ecosystem that will foster entrepreneurship?” The best investment they could make to help a startup culture in Finland would be to share what they know with the next generation. What Are You Waiting For?

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

By the time the rap group JVG finished its set, about 700,000 people — nearly 12% of the whole population of Finland — had tuned in. And for its major holiday May Day celebration, the city of Helsinki formed a partnership with VR company Zoan to launch a concert within a 3D version of the Finnish capital. Virtual Helsinki.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Finland-based Leadfeeder is a top (Google) analytics tool that shows the companies that visit your website. Let’s get inspired by these companies’ successful customer journey map examples. While some weren’t able to share the entire process due to privacy issues, they did share a specific section in the process… 1. Leadfeeder.

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deal architect

JUNE 24, 2013

Google''s Project Loon Finland''s next blockbuster Spain: Mobile Banking Innovation Santander: A city of sensors. We hear so much about Silicon Valley and Bangalore and Shanghai that it is refreshing to hear about innovations in other parts of the world. Innovative Business Uses of Technology'

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

I was once asked by a top executive of a major software company why we were not selling more products in Finland. He did not seem to understand that Finland was not part of Scandinavia and that English is not too well understood by most people there (with the exception of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland).

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Even though Korea and Finland have been on the top of the list of the most educated nations, the school systems in these countries vary a lot and it is almost impossible to compare them with each other. The same is valid for people who have graduated from a variety of universities and schools.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Last entry this year in a series on innovation from places you do not typically expect much innovation from Startup City – Boulder, CO Monument Men – structures across US Desert West Diplomacy and Digital Signatures – Finland, Estonia Technology.'

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 10, 2011

Check out what some enterprising entrepreneur from Finland did ). Recently Twitter added a new service that emails you when people RT you or favorite one of your Tweets. I started getting a ton of emails in my Gmail account saying people had favorited my Tweets, which I promptly fixed by filtering these.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I lived almost a year in Helsinki, Finland, and over six years in London, UK, where I had various experiences in fast paced market, even to the point of being a Creative Partner in my own company that was buried after several unpaid pitches, just after a half million pounds budget branding and launch campaign.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Economist published "If in doubt, innovate" a special report on The Nordic Region (Sweden, Denmark, Finland) as a hotbed for entrepreneurship we can all learn from. The article mentions some of the characteristics that make the Nordic Cluster successful.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2011

Bremer then quit his job at the end of 2010 and worked full-time on his startup (while based in Finland). But he had tremendous difficulty finding the right co-founder and finally gave up on his idea. The failure did get him thinking, and the seed for Founder2be was planted. Haubenschild, Founder2be ‘s developer, works out of Germany.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Boston, Finland and Paris). We’ve had billion dollar exists in Chicago, Baltimore, London, San Francisco and Los Angeles an well as enormous winners also in New York and Las Vegas. Just over 40% of our investments are in Greater Los Angeles, 25% in the Bay Area and 15% NYC with the balance in a city near you (Austin, Seattle, D.C.,

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Silicon Labs announced Wednesday its acquisition of Bluegiga Technologies Oy, based in Finland, for $61 million in cash. The Austin-based company reported the acquisition expands its wireless hardware and software solutions for the Internet of Things marketplace. Austin Silicon Labs'

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The Next Web

MAY 2, 2017

In 2009, Finland was the second largest investor in early stage European startups based on GDP. Finland’s startup… This story continues at The Next Web. According to Startup100, there are more than 600 active startups in the country. Most of these startups are in the tech or gaming industries.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I believe this would work with any of the hundred biggest companies in Finland. The thing is, if you look at the growth the one hundred biggest companies in Finland have achieved over the last three years, there’s not much to write home about, is there? Nokia is only one example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

I was once asked by a division manager of a major software company why we were not selling more products in Finland. He did not seem to understand that Finland was not part of Scandinavia and that English is not too well understood by most people there (with the exception of the Swedish speaking minority in Finland).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Last week in Helsinki Finland at a dinner with a roomful of large company CEO's, one of them asked, "What can we do to help build an ecosystem that will foster entrepreneurship?" The best investment they could make to help a startup culture in Finland would be to share what they know with the next generation.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). As promised at the end of July , the organization has now announced the launch of five new programs across the continent, doubling its European presence to ten chapters across as many countries.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

Petri built the studio and they developed the majority of game play in Finland, where there are a deep pool of talented video games professionals. I’m sure he could have done without his VC asking him on the sidelines our latest revenue forecasts :) but we really just kept it personal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

I grew up in Finland. I grew up in a small town in Finland as an outsider geek, one way to make friends was to essentially dungeon master or game master role playing games. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google , or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, the transcript of our conversation is below.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2015

Milt went to the Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, as a decathlon competitor. This misconception grew out of their habit of following through in all of their plans with persistence. Milt Campbell was a friend of mine; we shared many hours together. He was after the gold.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At present, demand is soaring with the company already operating in 80 locations worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, and Finland.

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Diego Basch

DECEMBER 16, 2012

We must be careful in drawing conclusions when comparing small, relatively homogeneous countries such as Finland against a population with the size and heterogeneity of the US. Their ethnicities, geographies and densities are different as well.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2018

Lamia (Finland). Reach Digital, Netherlands. MindArc Pty Ltd (Australia). Madia BV (Netherlands). Webgriffe SRL (Italy). Divante Sp. HiberusTecnologia (Spain). One Creations (UK). Blue Acorn, LLC (USA). Silk Software Corp. eWave (Australia). netz98 GmbH (Germany). Netherlands). Selection Tips. .

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last month in London, I got a chance to sit with five startups from the UK, Italy, Finland and Estonia – each with a very different business. Internet technology start ups in Israel should apply *for free* on this link: Apply to Seedcamp Tel Aviv.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 10, 2014

This year, for example, contestants came from Ireland and Slovenia, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, London, Tel Aviv and all over […] The post So How Did YOU Get Picked for Accelerator? appeared first on SiliconHills.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

Girls in Tech London picked the top women in 19 countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel – on the basis of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

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