Business, English
Getting funding is easy
The 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, 2020- Business, English
Start from the hard stuff
Focus on the thing that makes or breaks your future. Worry about the other stuff later.
June 8, 2020 
Business, English, Podcasts, Post-coronavirus, Society, Talks with PetriHai and thank you says it all
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, 2020- Business, English
Bootstrapping vs investor money
Investor money is a big temptation. Bootstrapping is hard. It has its advantages but you may appreciate them only later.
June 5, 2020 - Business, English
Baby steps every day
It is like compound interest. So easy to grasp but so difficult to comprehend and follow in practice.
June 4, 2020 - Business, English
Curiosity and the reluctant founder
The 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, 2020 - Business, Economics, English, Post-coronavirus, Society
Inflicted mobility
When it’s time to move on and leave the unreceptive environment behind?
June 2, 2020 - books, Business, Economics, English, Post-coronavirus, Society
How innovation works
Whether 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 
Business, English, Podcasts, Post-coronavirus, Society, Talks with PetriCurious angel seeks happiness by learning
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, 2020- Business, English, Post-coronavirus
Virtual rooming
There are ways to have a virtual experience with your browser that is more than just sitting in a zoom-call.
May 28, 2020 - Business, English
Hidden dilution
The hidden dilution can happen easily with convertible notes that start to pile up on each other and have different terms.
May 27, 2020 - books, Business, English, Society
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution
Social 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, 2020 - Business, English, Post-coronavirus
Continuous fundraising
One 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 
Business, English, Podcasts, Post-coronavirus, Society, Talks with PetriPragmatic anarchist surfs the waves of impact
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, 2020- Business, English
Persistent voice chat
How do you have a group chat where it actually feels like a group talk and not individual people talking over each other?
May 22, 2020 - Business, English
Senile social media platforms
We 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, 2020 - Business, English, Post-coronavirus
Noise filtering
It 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, 2020 - Business, English, Post-coronavirus
Value-driven business
All business is H2H, human-to-human. All your decisions are value judgements consciously and even without acknowledging them.
May 19, 2020 - Business, English, Post-coronavirus
What text did to voice virtual will do to IRL activities
Video 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 
Business, English, Podcasts, Post-coronavirus, Talks with PetriMake your work visible
Ville Tolvanen talks about finding your audience, how to deal with trolls and why virtual activists are the future leaders.
May 17, 2020- Business, English, Post-coronavirus
Virtual everything and virtual first strategy
Virtual 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, 2020 - Business, English, Post-coronavirus, Society
Warp speed and snail slow
Sometimes 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, 2020 - Business, English, Post-coronavirus
Who wants to travel anymore
The 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, 2020 - Business, English, Post-coronavirus
Everyone is a few milliseconds away
There’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, 2020 - Business, English, Post-coronavirus
What not to do after quarantine
Some 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 - Business, Economics, English, Post-coronavirus, Society
The new post-corona world
It 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 - Business, Economics, English, Post-coronavirus, Society
Coping with post-coronavirus realities
The whole process of going through the different stages of the coronavirus crisis has shown weaknesses, stress points, structural, managerial, political and systemic challenges or mere blunt misconducts and ignorance in our society.
May 7, 2020
It has shown that we are not prepared for something that is unexpected and requires immediate coordination and cooperation on a large scale. - Business, Economics, English, Post-coronavirus, Society
Second-order consequences of post-corona new normal
Second-order effects are category-defining, paradigm-shifting and changing the course of many product categories, habits and values for good.
They are big changes that may seem to approach slowly but yet their coming is a certainty, it’s just a matter of time: objects in your horizon may appear further than they are.
May 6, 2020 - Business, Economics, English, Post-coronavirus, Society
Post-coronavirus new normal
Post-coronavirus new normal is taking shape. It’s easy to overestimate the short term and underestimate the long term consequences.
May 5, 2020 - books, Business, English
Book review: Uncopyable
there’s another way to succeed in the market. It’s based on your ability to create your customers’ attachment to you.
April 17, 2020 - books, Business, English
Book review: Oversubscribed
The whole purpose is to focus on these customers and serve them better than anyone else: to delight those who value and want what you’re doing more than anything else. The process to become oversubscribed concentrates on understanding who are these people, how to find them and what is it exactly what they want.
April 6, 2020 - books, Business, English
Book review: The effective hiring manager
The book walks through the whole recruitment process and gives enough practical guidance to plan and execute hiring in detail. It takes the view of hiring manager who’s responsible of the new recruitment and provides tips how to involve and handle the HR department if the company has one.
February 17, 2020 - books, Business, Economics, English
Book review: Supertrends
Supertrends reminds us to look into those lingering things that barely move when you focus on them but are huge when compared to the historical already happened changes.
January 29, 2020 - books, Business, English
Practical business books
Much of business is about to-do items and practical steps to follow. The below books belong to this category of getting things done but no point re-inventing the wheel
January 16, 2020 - books, Business, English
Book review: Category creation
Category creation is a business strategy where the company is focusing on marketing the category by focusing on the new problem in the industry more than the actual solutions for it.
January 13, 2020 - books, Business, English
Book review: Survival to Thrival
Survival to Thrival is a practical and rather hands-on guide for founders, investors and executives that are in the middle of enterprise startup growth.
December 12, 2019 - books, Business, English
Book review: Range
The path to great discoveries and success is not always paved with grit and specialisation. Generalist may be slower in life to bloom but more weird and wicked their world become the better they tend to perform compared to specialist.
September 26, 2019 - books, Business, English
Book review: Startup Scaleup Screwup
Serial entrepreneur Jurgen Appelo has managed to put together a practical guide that gives you the latest tools and practical knowledge for a high growth venture. The book is packed with agile and lean community techniques and best practices.
September 1, 2019 - books, Business, Economics
Book review: Kellogg on Branding in a Hyper-connected World
The book consists of independent articles organised under different themes. The structure gives an updated overview to the topic.
The variety and quality of the content
August 25, 2019
varies by the author but overall it’s a topical tome that can benefit both startup and established brand builders and managers alike. - books, Business, Economics
Book review: The RegTech Book
RegTech is a relatively new term that potentially can be used in respect to regulative processes in any sector, not just in the FinTech arena. Its earlier forms have been focused on streamlining compliance and reporting processes, often by means of digitalisation.
August 22, 2019 - books, Business, Economics
Book review: Transforming legacy organizations
For established companies to survive in future they need to overcome innovation barriers and utilise three tier structure for different level of change.
August 19, 2019 - books, Business, English
Book review: Thank you for disrupting
Some individuals have a large impact on society and Thank you for disrupting is about their big ideas and underlying thinking.
August 15, 2019 - books, Business, English
Book review: Total rethink
Entrepreneurs disrupt the status quo! David McCourt embraces entrepreneurial revolution that results beneficial change for the majority and disrupts the status quo for the incumbent players.
August 13, 2019 - books, Business, English
Book reviews: Blockchain, Ethereum and Cryptocurrency Investing for dummies
Sometimes it’s good to go back to basics. Crypto field is getting too large to follow it all by…
August 9, 2019 - books, Business, English
Book review: Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Scott Kupor’s new book belongs to the must-read category for every founder who needs venture funding. The book walks through the funding process step-by-step and explains the logic and pitfalls along the way.
August 7, 2019 - books, Business, English
Book review: The art of making sh!t up
Norm Laviolette shares his wisdom and some industry knowledge that is useful in business but also in regular life. If improv is hard so is his message as well. Not because the topic is difficult to understand but because the things sound so obvious and simple, yet so hard to carry out in practice.
August 5, 2019 - Business, English
Smart startup
Being smart involves the why question in the beginning. Why are we doing what we are doing?
May 13, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Ilmastopaniikki: Hoito-opas
Ilmastopolitiikkaa kuunnellessa asiat ovat hyvin yksinkertaisia. Hiilidioksidi on kaiken pahan takana ja nyt on enää kyse siitä kuinka suuriin…
April 20, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: AI for marketing and product innovation
Teos käy läpi tekoälyn ja koneoppimisen eri käsitteitä, tekniikoita, toimintamalleja ja sovelluskohteita. Konseptuaalisista periaatteista siirrytään lähemmäksi käytäntöä sovellusalueita unohtamatta
April 17, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Bloomberg by Bloomberg
Bloombergin nimi on tuttu lähes kaikille. Miljardööriin on lähes mahdotonta olla törmäämättä tavalla tai toisella. Hänen tarinansa on kuitenkin…
April 9, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Goliath’s revenge
Daavid vastaan Goljat taisteluissa uudet toimialarajoja rikkovat startupit ovat varteenotettava uhka nykyisille pelureille. Toisaalta vanhoilla yrityksillä on muutamia ässiä hihoissaan, jos ne pystyvät käyttämään niitä.
April 3, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Lean Impact
Kasvuyrityksistä tuttu kokeilukulttuurin periaate saa jalansijaa myös kolmannen sektorin toiminnassa. Merkittävä osa lahjoituksiin ja avustuksiin nojaavasta sektorista tukeutuu yhä vanhakantaisiin toimintamalleihin.
March 22, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Stay the course
Pysy kurssissa kannustaa sijoittajia keskittymään pitkään tähtäimeen ja unohtamaan päivittäisen markkinoiden kohinan ja houkutukset. Kirjan nimi on Boglen ohjenuora, jota hän on noudattanut elämässään ja myös Vanguardia rakentaessaan.
March 22, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Work is love made visible
Mitä sellaista näet katsoessasi ulos ikkunasta, joka on näkyvissä, mutta muut eivät sitä näe? Tämä Peter Druckerin kysymys on kirjan esseiden pohjana yhdistettynä Frances Hesselbeinin johtajuuden ohjenuoriin.
March 22, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Sales leadership
Rosenin mukaan valmentava yrityskulttuuri on ihmiskeskeinen. Ajatuksena on valjastaa koko organisaatio toimimaan valmentamisen hengessä. Hyvä johtaja tukee alaistansa työn toteuttamisessa ja pysyy poissa päätöksenteosta.
February 5, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: The Polymath
Yleisneroja kutsutaan joskus renessanssi-ihmisiksi, mutta usein heitä pidetään jokapaikanhöylinä tai eksentrikkoina. Leonardo de Vinci on yleisneron perikuva ja ehkä…
January 28, 2019 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: The Myth of Capitalism
Vapaa kilpailu on kohta pelkästään teoreettista ainakin Yhdysvalloissa. Tepper ja Hearn paukuttavat tilastoihin ja tutkimuksiin tukeutuen, kuinka Yhdysvallat on unohtanut kuluttajan edun ja lähtenyt edustamaan isojen yritysten asiaa.
January 7, 2019 - Business, Finnish
Omistamisen tulevaisuus
Mitä tarkoittaa omistaminen maailmassa, jossa tulostamalla saadaan identtisiä kopioita alkuperäisistä, operoidaan asteroideilla ja muilla planeetoilla ja elämä on merkittävissä määrin digitaalista?
October 28, 2018 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Big Mistakes
Kaikki tekevät huonoja päätöksiä. Myös maailman tunnetuimmat sijoittajat, joista viisitoista on poimittu esimerkiksi ja opiksi muille. Bonuksena kirjoittaja kertoo myös omista kokemuksistaan.
September 30, 2018 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Investigating Cryptocurrencies
Alasta kiinnostuneilla harrastelijoille, sijoittajille ja etenkin rikostutkijoille konkreettinen ymmärrys asioista on omassa arvossaan. Teos lähtee hyvin yksinkertaisista perusasioista ja askel askeleelta ohjaa lukijaa lohkoketjujen maailmaan.
September 30, 2018 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: The Bitcoin Standard
Ammous käy läpi rahan historiaa, talousteoriaa ja –historiaa pakaten sivut täyteen asiaa ilman harhapolkuja tai epäolennaisuuksia. Kirja asettaa Bitcoinin oikeaan viitekehitykseen ihmiskunnan historiassa, taloudessa ja vaikutuksessaan tuli se lopulta menestymään tai ei.
June 19, 2018 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: The Insurtech & Wealthtech Book
Nyt tarkastellaan varainhallinnan ja vakuutusalan tulevaa myllerystä. Lyhyitä artikkeleita monelta alan toimijalta, toistoa on paljon ja kirjoitusten laatu vaihtelee. Joukossa on helmiä, riittävästi pohdiskeltavaa ja uusia näkökulmia läpikäymiseen.
June 13, 2018 - Business, English
The Obvious
For the humble, curious or just plain bored I lay out the basics of entrepreneurial startup building
June 4, 2018 - Business, English
To the moon and back in Crypto, AR&VR, and for real in space
Being prepared does not make you less surprised nor stop the second-guessing. This is the feeling of cryptocurrency mania…
December 20, 2017 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Megatech
Megatech yrittää tuoda esiin muutoksia ja mahdollisuuksia, mutta myös uhkia, joita seuraavat 30 vuotta ovat tuomassa.
December 18, 2017 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: Out of Our Minds
Out of Our Minds pelastaa monen päivän. Kirjan teesinä on luovuuden monet muodot ja kuinka vähän hyödynnämme kaikkien potentiaalia.
November 16, 2017 - Business, Finnish, Luettua
Luettua: WTF
Internet-ajan legenda O’Reilly pohtii muutosta muutaman vuosikymmenen tapahtumien kautta. Kirja on kartta ja samalla metafora viestille. Se auttaa navigoimaan…
October 29, 2017 - Business, Economics, English
Instant and cheap forex is here
In the banking field, the first bank has adopted virtual currency technology (Ripple) to its interbank and intra-bank operations overseas. This enables fund transfers with significant cost savings and faster delivery times.
May 15, 2014 - Business, Economics, English
Cryptocurrencies and the rise of locality
Nation states may face a serious risk in the future. They might need to start to land from the stratosphere and act like regular people and businesses: live by their means.
April 7, 2014 - Business, Economics, English
When fiat and decrees work no more for sovereigns
Globalisation with decentralised and distributed nature of Internet era currencies provide paradigm-changing disruptions to the status quo. Central authority and top-down decree based control systems are harder to defend. Bits and bytes do not obey geographical and political boundaries – for they are in essence artificial in nature.
April 6, 2014 - Business, English
Internet of Money – new era of giants?
Every disruptive technology provides a window of opportunity to create new large players that eventually become incumbents themselves.
March 28, 2014 - Business, Fragments of Reality, Fragments of Reality, Personal, Short Insights
Time Excuse
Our greatest excuse is time. Either we do not have enough of it or we have too much of…
May 21, 2005 - Belief System, Business, Fragments of Reality, Fragments of Reality, Personal
Busy
We claim to be so busy. What does it really mean, and is it actually possible? Being busy means…
November 9, 2004