Jaakko Villa talks about co-founding a successful growth company Idean and running it for many years but what happens when the co-founders part ways and his legacy is nowhere to be seen anymore.
April 15, 2021Does your NFT exists if you mint or buy it but nobody sees it? It’s easy to focus on the technical aspects of something and forget where the real value is.
April 12, 2021How do you build a community-driven business? David Spinks shares his practical knowledge and extensive experience in building thriving communities in his new book The Business of Belonging.
April 9, 2021Startup CEO covers everything from authentic leadership to storytelling, growing and managing your organisation to governance and finally exiting the company.
March 26, 2021Marketing 5.0 talks about the marketing symbiosis of humans and machines in customer experience creation with five different generations, prosperity polarisation and the digital divide.
March 18, 2021
Erik Byrenius talks about scaling his startup and the intriguing turns with strategic investments that led to an optimal exit situation.
March 15, 2021
Heikki Väänänen talks about his entrepreneurial journey from bootstrapping to raising over 40m EUR funding and scaling the company to +200 employees, and stepping down from the CEO role after 20 years.
February 15, 2021Remote communication puts the noise level higher. ! It’s safe to assume that what you intend to communicate is not heard the same way by the recipient.
January 24, 2021it’s time to take the control back from the big platforms and take ownership of our content, audience, business, finances, and the rest of our property.
January 17, 2021
Joshua Weiss talks about why you should not compromise or plan when negotiating, how to avoid common misconceptions, how to deal with bullies and power moves but also become a better negotiator and embrace the process. He also reveals why he did not become a lawyer.
December 6, 2020Dr. Helena Boschi has put together an extensive overview of different aspects of neuroscience research and knowledge that is easy to grasp and not too academic. It explains the basic mechanisms simply and has practical applications for personal life as well as for business and leadership purposes.
December 4, 2020When the author starts the book by stating that the topic is boring you might be onto something. There are no shortcuts or quick wins.
November 29, 2020What is the question where the answer is what you’re doing right now? If you don’t like the outcome you have pinpointed the problem.
November 24, 2020
Paul Viio talks about the difficulty of finding good salespeople, why the majority of companies are underperforming in sales and why you should not hire the top salespeople.
November 22, 2020You need market validation for a product/market fit. But whose opinion matters?
November 17, 2020Eric Jorgenson has done a great service for all the millions of people who’re interested in Naval Ravikant’s thoughts and ideas.
November 13, 2020If you cannot do this small thing properly how do you expect me to believe you can do the big things right?
November 10, 2020
Shawn Livermore talks about the great myths surrounding tech founders, how to unleash your creativity, the secrets & magic of growth, and what is a nagging pull. He also shares his views on introverts and ladders.
November 8, 2020How to balance your short-term goals and needs with your long-term vision and mission? What is the way to have a strategic mindset when you’re building your business?
November 3, 2020Joshua N. Weiss demonstrates with cases how you can achieve better outcomes in your next negotiations and avoid harmful misconceptions.
October 30, 2020When Derek Sivers talks people listen. Your Music and People is one of the best marketing books you can read.
October 28, 2020There’s a fine line to lead with a vision and doing something nobody cares enough to hand over their money to buy it. The difference is timing.
October 27, 2020
Johan Norberg talks about the misfits, rebels and innovators that push the reluctant society into progress, the role of entrepreneurs and why this is a scary moment in time.
October 25, 2020Growth companies may need external investors. How to select the right investors for your company?
October 22, 2020If your mindset is not updated beyond your own capabilities and resources it’s hard to make things work.
October 20, 2020The centralisation and consolidation have progressed to the point that the new rebels are the old guard.
October 18, 2020Out of The Ether does a good job of illustrating the journey from Bitcoin enthusiasts towards something else and their quest for decentralised money, programmable global computer and everything between.
October 16, 2020The difference between success and failure is often not in more data but in more accurate acknowledgement of the limitations themselves.
October 15, 2020Change takes time. The results take even longer to show up. The hardest part is not to give up or change the course while waiting for the impact.
October 13, 2020
Bailey Richardson talks about community building on Instagram’s early years, The Social Dilemma phenomenon including her interview in the documentary, and how to find yourself in hedgehog cafes in Tokyo.
October 11, 2020Average Joe tackles the heroism of the startup land. It unearths stories and research around how we learn, create and build.
October 2, 2020
Jurgen Appelo talks about failing to find a product/market fit, how you pivot, adapt and move on in turmoil as well as shifting up to an experience mindset. He also warns about dangers in Canada.
September 27, 2020Before you start to browse through video conferencing equipment is good to stop and think what are you really trying to accomplish.
September 24, 2020Johan Norberg has written a magnificent book that gives insights into our current world, the state we are with all the polarisations and conflicts but also how fragile our success is, and why it is not guaranteed to last.
September 22, 2020Startup Community Way builds on the previous book Startup Communities. It dives into the world of complex systems and their operations.
September 18, 2020Second-order effects (or consequences) can impact your business and result in massive changes in your business model or operations. If people avoid physical proximity what are the implications that are harder to see at first?
September 15, 2020
Slush CEO Miika Huttunen talks about how to adapt to the new reality and change your business in 4 months, the relevance of esports & gaming and the future of business events. He also explores Second Reality and LAN-parties.
September 13, 2020Startup Communities is about the inspiring story and the message that you can build a vibrant startup ecosystem anywhere. If you can do it with a small 100 000 inhabitant city in Colorado it can be done elsewhere.
September 11, 2020What is important in getting funding for your startup or growth company when you’re raising capital for your business.
September 10, 2020Early 2020 kick-started business disruption. If you were not digital-first business already do you still have a business model?
September 6, 2020
Entrepreneur Kadri Tuisk explores the future of education with personalised learning, why she loves design thinking and being outside of her comfort zone. She also talks about startup pivoting and hitchhiking to her first career.
August 30, 2020
Preston Byrne talks about how disruption hits education and service careers, the future of decentralised finance, and why you should avoid VC funding.
August 23, 2020Community intelligence benefits all the members of the community who are participating without doing anything extra and making everyone smarter together.
August 20, 2020Get together with a meaningful purpose, share the passion with others, embrace the journey together and that’s how to build a community with your people.
August 18, 2020
Entrepreneur Benji Hyam shares the inside view to successful content marketing, where you should focus and what to expect, and how to get results. He also reveals his life-changing movie experience.
August 16, 2020
Lars Tvede talks about people and ideas entrepreneurs, navigating business cycles, how to inspire people and have fun while remote working, and what it takes to be a lucky person.
August 9, 2020Books to read in startup funding and growth, business management, technology innovation and society in general.
August 7, 2020Watch out for power law and the global competition. It’s not a level playing field for everyone. The best thrive and the rest survive.
August 6, 2020Radical changes in customer behaviour because of external circumstances like coronavirus or new behavioural habits can kill your value proposition almost instantly.
August 5, 20202020 is the year that killed many old business models. Most of the businesses have not realised it yet.
August 4, 2020Fundamental changes in user behaviour and external circumstances require full-stop moments to question everything and rebuild your operations based on the new realities and needs of the market.
August 3, 2020
Daniel Lacalle talks about bubbles and central bank traps, practical tips for individuals, why we are not learning from history and what’s the role of human ingenuity.
August 2, 2020Practical tools for design thinking and business model reinventions.
July 31, 2020
Per Bylund talks about the role of entrepreneurship in society, what’s wrong with economics, why prices are always rising and how to spend a year in Hawaii.
July 26, 2020
Tero Mennander talks about missing the perfect exit window and life as a VC in France and the Nordics. He also reveals his connection to Leningrad.
July 19, 2020
Tom Mayr talks about audio as the last medium without a big platform, how to approach the two-sided markets as a startup and why not all likes are the same.
July 12, 2020
Razeen Sally talks about the threat of China, the role of Singapore in the new volatile world, what’s ahead of us in geopolitics and what he discovered in Sri Lanka.
July 5, 2020We are tilted towards giving the benefit of doubt to people and believing in them. Defaulting to the truth makes our society to work. If we were to suspect everything and everyone we could not cooperate.
July 2, 2020
Tomi Grönfors talks about challenges in building a consumer brand, how to price your products and wrestle with your personal issues without shame. He also reveals why a road trip may last only a few kilometres with empty bottles.
June 28, 2020You cannot schedule playfulness in your calendar but you can create space for it. And you can learn to become more playful and curious. Like any skill, it gets easier with practice.
June 24, 2020People relate to stories. They are memorable and relatable. They are easier to remember. They are easier to pass forward and explain. They are entertaining and fun. They simply work.
June 23, 2020Motion is a great excuse and illusionist. It gives you a sense of accomplishment but leaves you cold in the results. Choose your metrics wisely and observe the output.
June 22, 2020
Venture capitalist Sakari Pihlava talks about the future of the SaaS business model, how to make a career in VC, the dangers of pricing and what to do with YouTube.
June 21, 2020Start talking and get used to hearing your voice. This is the decade of audio for all of us.
June 19, 2020Coachable people are willing to learn. They have the inner drive to become better. They admit they are not perfect but they are willing to do the work to improve.
June 18, 2020Entrepreneurship is always hard. Now, it’s just extra hard. Keep that in mind when you’re communicating and interacting with people. You don’t know what they are going through.
June 17, 2020You want to delight your customers and make them happy. It’s not about costs, it’s not about limited resources.
June 16, 2020Products can have features but features are not products. New technologies are usually first novelty products but then they become implemented widely and they become just part of regular solutions.
June 15, 2020
Elias Aalto talks about the early days of Wolt, how to win an Apple Design Award and why startups are overhyped as a career path and what not to do when you have an audience of millions of people.
June 14, 2020If you only have a shareholder’s agreement that applies to everyone you are calling for trouble. It’s impossible to agree upon anything and getting signatures to company decisions.
June 12, 2020When you’re operating in the unchartered territories the success rate is very low. You can improve your odds by adding numbers and that’s the VC model. From a founder’s perspective, the game is different and you need to embrace this.
June 11, 2020If it is your company and you are the CEO, you’re the Batman. Everybody wants to talk to Batman. He’s the main show. Batman does the heavy lifting but with the support of others.
June 10, 2020The funding is a derivative of the real issues. When you have the right components in place the money comes to you rather easily.
June 9, 2020Focus on the thing that makes or breaks your future. Worry about the other stuff later.
June 8, 2020
Stefan Björkman explains the investment climate ahead of us, reveals his management secret, talks about a good company board, and what’s the purpose of glue in business.
June 7, 2020Investor money is a big temptation. Bootstrapping is hard. It has its advantages but you may appreciate them only later.
June 5, 2020It is like compound interest. So easy to grasp but so difficult to comprehend and follow in practice.
June 4, 2020The successful founders are hesitant to start their company. They may even dislike the idea and really hate it. It’s the necessary evil for accomplishing the desired outcome.
June 3, 2020When it’s time to move on and leave the unreceptive environment behind?
June 2, 2020Whether you want to learn about various innovation stories or understand better the interconnected nature of the innovation system Ridley shines light to the crucial area of our existence. Who wants to go back thirty, twenty or even ten years?
June 1, 2020
Hampus Jakobsson talks about living in the moment, the biggest challenges for humanity, who are the most interesting people and why hearing is important while cooking.
May 31, 2020There are ways to have a virtual experience with your browser that is more than just sitting in a zoom-call.
May 28, 2020The hidden dilution can happen easily with convertible notes that start to pile up on each other and have different terms.
May 27, 2020Social entrepreneur and founder of Acumen Jacqueline Novogratz calls for a revolution to reimagine how we are living on this planet in this century.
May 26, 2020One of the challenges is to make the investors not to wait for each other but commit to their amount as they come. This is a balancing act where the demand and supply meet the closing skills of the founder.
May 25, 2020
Richard Georg Engström talks about how to make films in Scandinavia, navigate unknown and uncultivated opportunities, what is impact and what it means to be happy.
May 24, 2020How do you have a group chat where it actually feels like a group talk and not individual people talking over each other?
May 22, 2020We are getting back to the very basics of the Internet again. How to connect people and make it resilient without centralised parties in the middle.
May 21, 2020It may also be worthwhile to consider whether we should lower our firewalls a notch. We are all learning to communicate and reach out to people in this new situation. Not all people are trying to scam us.
May 20, 2020All business is H2H, human-to-human. All your decisions are value judgements consciously and even without acknowledging them.
May 19, 2020Video is taking over face-to-face meetings. A small step for a business person but a huge leap for all business practices.
May 18, 2020
Ville Tolvanen talks about finding your audience, how to deal with trolls and why virtual activists are the future leaders.
May 17, 2020Virtual everything and virtual first is something very serious and urgent. You cannot appreciate it fully unless you’re immersed into the new and unfamiliar. It takes courage and humility. Errors will be made and they are for all to see.
May 15, 2020Sometimes it’s healthy to do short sprints and consciously do leaps that don’t feel natural. This is one of those times. What feels like a brave thing to do now seems obvious and lame in retrospect. It’s just a matter of perspective.
May 14, 2020The future of business travel may be more local and earthbound. It’s more comfortable to travel by car, train or boat in short hauls provided that you’re keeping within the green zones such as Baltics. Trust is a high currency now among people, nation-states, and companies.
May 13, 2020There’s no reason to favour someone just because they are a few kilometres away from you. Or limit your reach just because it’s convenient or familiar.
May 12, 2020Some of the gains and productivity progress achieved may have been temporary victories if they are not fought over. Habits take a long time to form and the lockdown period may not have been long enough for that.
May 11, 2020
Taavi Rõivas talks about his experience as the youngest prime minister in the EU, the future of nation states and his latest movie role.
May 10, 2020It requires friendliness and encouragement towards small and fragile. It expects thick skin and moral backbone to resist the temptation of favouring incumbents and old solutions. It accepts the fact that something new is strange, different and unfamiliar
May 8, 2020