We talk about startup life, the good, the bad, the insight, the experiences, the mistakes, the failures and everything between. The focus is on practical tips and tools to help you build your company from an idea stage, bootstrapping to investor funded …
Advisory and board members2023-04-10 · 10 min
Do you need an advisory board, or is the board enough? What do you want from external experts, and how can you get them?
Growth hacking, engagement farming and marketing2023-04-03 · 6 min
What's the difference, and does it matter?
Recruitment doubts2023-03-27 · 5 min
What to do when you need to fill a key position but it's hard to find good candidates?
Solutions to not get stuck2023-03-20 · 5 min
What to do when you feel that you cannot move forward or even black pilled with your decisions?
Dealbreakers2023-03-13 · 4 min
The things that make going further pointless and waste of time. What are your opportunity costs?
Rush2023-03-06 · 5 min
Founders are busy but can your business case be rushed?
Loops: Building Products with Clarity & ConfidenceHow to build products?
There are two ways to build a product. Either you start with a solution in mind and launch it to the market or you start with a group of people with a problem and then solve it for them.
This book is about the latter.
I have also written a few words about it: Book review: Loops
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhoneThere are never too many stories and you can always learn from the past experiences. The history does not repeat but it rhymes and helps you to figure out your next moves (see Range for why :)
Startup finance classics
This is a very short list on purpose. If you have more time and interest it's easy to elaborate on each topic with a book or two but it's important to have an overall perspective first.
Petri follows his curiosity and shares his talks with people building the future. The show explores personal discoveries and experiences with lessons learned. The real-talk conversations go deep where the purpose is always to learn more and share the …
The impossible equation2022-11-23 · 131 min
Ahti Heinla talks about building companies that impact a massive amount of people, how even successful founders struggle and fail at times but also what’s the right approach to build a business case. He also reveals how
IKEA—Ingvar Kamprad’s startup from 19432022-10-25 · 79 min
Hannu Ryopponen talks about working with Ingvar Kamprad, how he was as an entrepreneur and what made IKEA successful. He also reveals what happened when he travelled with Kamprad and met dignitaries. See the episode note
You can fight gravity but cannot beat it2022-09-25 · 64 min
Micke Paqvalén talks about building award winning companies, rough times, and almost dying while working too hard. He also reveals his first startup at early age, and founding of a flying boat company. See the episode no