
Back in October I wrote about a cover story they ran on me in the Welcome to Finland magazine. Old blog post here:
http://tane.li/2008/taneli-covered-welcome-finland
Now the interview is available for download as a print quality PDF from this blog:
Click here to get your PDF copy
I'm placing the PDF for download with permission from the Editor-in-Chief. After all it's an old issue now, nuttin' but free promo, isn't it?
Meanwhile it's my second last day as Run's CEO. I'm currently working on a more detailed launch plan and figuring out things related to how to get the service in keen shape. Further plans still open, plenty of conversations going on and no intentions to rush into anything too soon. After this week I hope to have more time to for example blog..
Mårten Mickos is also leaving his MySQL post on the same date and is asking (through email to his contacts) an interesting question: "What's bigger than open source?".. figure that out, and I'm sure we'll see him leading the charge on that pretty soon ;)
Hi. My name is Taneli Tikka. This is where I preach what I practice. I'm a
serial entrepreneur and a startup activist of sorts. People usually know me
from my past and present consumer Internet service projects: IRC-Galleria,
Dopplr, Muxlim, StarDoll, RunToShop, Vakuutuskone.com, and a bunch of other stuff. My
"proper" bio is behind this link. Glad to see you here, thanks for browsing
around.
Comments
Note on the article
Mon, 2009-3-30 16:00 – taneliI received a note on the article saying that it is unclear about a few facts related to IRC-Galleria. So I'm making a comment here in order to avoid any confusion.
Please note that naturally I didn't write the article, and neither am I responsible for it.
The article is a bit vague on this part:
"An important chapter in Tikka’s life was IRC-Galleria, Finland’s
largest internet community that was founded by Tomi Lintelä in
2000. Tikka met up with Lintelä eighteen months after IRC-Galleria was
founded and suggested to him that the service could be used to make
money. IRC-Galleria was incorporated in 2003 and, thus, Dynamoid
Oy was born. Tikka became CEO of the new company."
A reader might get the impression that I was CEO directly from 2003 onwards, which is not the case. The company had no CEO for many years (it operated by the board of directors being directly responsible for all operations), and only had its first CEO in 2006; me.
Also a reader may interpret that the article is saying that the idea to incorporate the service as a company somehow came directly from me. This is not the case either, the service was run as a not-for-profit organization and incorporated into a company by 6 individual co-founders. Whom you can find through the infopages of IRC-Galleria.net
.. It's a bit funny to receive notes to correct an article almost half a year after it's published; but hey, these things do happen and everything published isn't exactly followed in real time.
Hell, people even confuse me with IRC-Galleria's original founder (Tomi Lintelä, in december of 2000), and sometimes try to print in seminar programmes and such that I would be the service's founder. If you see this around; please do correct their facts, as I'm certainly not out here to steal the grande limelight on this.
Official history
Mon, 2009-3-30 16:03 – taneliFurthermore here's an official history by IRC-Galleria themselves, in finnish:
http://irc-galleria.net/galleriahistory.php
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