About

This here page on the Interwebz is called tane.li and its a blarg.

The blog concentrates on topics such as: war stories on startups, startup tabus, success cases, failure cases, management and leadership, startup best practices, startup strategy, board of directors work, learning experiences, viewpoints and opinions.

And it all comes from this guy:

Taneli Tikka's Character Description Sheet (as in RPGs)

Character Profile: serial entrepreneur and dealmaker with an active history of all‐round leadership and strategy work. Plus a reasonably laid-back yet opinionated dude.

Work Stuff
Exists & Acquisitions:

4/2007 Dynamoid, Ltd. (IRC-Galleria.net), sold to Sulake Corporation for 12.5M€ in stock that's currently speculated to be worth about 50M€ (according to the infamous SAI 25 list)

4/2006 Magenta, Ltd (subsidiary of Ruukki Group Plc), sold to Nebula and Parisian hosting corporation

9/2003 MobileCRM, Ltd. Acquired to complement Magenta’s growing business

8/2003 Fuksiini Sites, Ltd. Sold to Ruukki Group Plc

Operative roles
Chief Executive Roles

1/11 - now Soprano Brain Alliance, CEO
7/10 - now Health Puzzle, Ltd. CEO
8/07 – now Wisdom Like Silence, Ltd. Sole proprietorship / CEO
4/08 – 4/09 RunToShop, Ltd, CEO
5/06 – 6/07 Dynamoid, Ltd (Later Sulake Dynamoid, Ltd). CEO
4/03 – 5/06 Magenta, Ltd. CEO
9/03 – 5/06 MobileCRM, Ltd. CEO
9/04 – 5/06 Magenta International Hosting Inc (Delaware, USA). CEO
8/05 – 5/06 Magenta Asia, Ltd (Bangkok, Thailand). CEO
5/00 – 5/02 Taika Technologies, Ltd. CEO

Other operative stuff

1/011 - now Soprano Plc, Executive Vice President
8/07 – 4/08 Dopplr, Ltd. COO
11/05‐5/06 Dynamoid, Ltd. VP Market Development & Strategy
9/03 – 5/06 Ruukki Group Plc. Executive Vice President. IT division
1/05 – 9/05 Kemppi, Ltd. Executive Consultant
11/02 – 3/03 Logica. Business Group Manager
5/02 – 9/02 Taika Technologies, Ltd. VP Market Development
11/99 – 5/00 Taika Technologies, Ltd. CTO
+ jobs at Nokia and Martela. And a bunch of summer jobs and such.

Strategic ”Board level” –roles

12/10 - now Sulava, Ltd. Board Member
5/10 - now Soprano, Plc. Board Member
6/10 - now Solver Solutions, Ltd. (Package Media) Board Member
2/10 - now BrandMNGR. Chairman
11/09 - now Vigo Programme. Steering group member.
8/09 - now Umbra Software. Chairman
5/09 - 5/11 Web Of Trust. Board Member
1/09 - 8/10 Brain Alliance, Ltd. Board Member
4/09 - now Balancion, Ltd. (www.balancion.com) Member
6/08 – now Capital Idea, Ltd. (www.vakuutuskone.com) Member
6/08 ‐ now TEKES. Verso Programme. Member
6/08 – now TEKES/VTT User driven research projects board. Member
8/07 – now Wisdom Like Silence, Ltd. Chairman
2/04 – now Aula Cooperative. Member
8/07 – 11/09 13 holding, Ltd. (www.enca.fi) Vice Chairman
4/09 - 9/09 RunToShop, Ltd,. Board Member
8/07 – 1/09 Muxlim Inc. (www.muxlim.com) Member
5/06 – 6/07 Laikamoid, Ltd. Vice Chairman
9/03 – 5/06 MobileCRM, Ltd. Chairman
9/04 – 5/06 Magenta International Hosting Inc. Chairman
8/05 – 5/06 Magenta Asia, Ltd. Chairman
5/00 – 9/02 Taika Technologies, Ltd. Vice Chairman
11/99 – 5/00 Taika Technologies, Ltd. Chairman
6/06 – 03/08 Relevant Point, Ltd. (www.relevant.fi) Member
4/03 – 5/06 Magenta, Ltd. Member
2/05 – 5/06 LoopM, Ltd. Member
2/06 – 1/07 Software Entrepreneurs Association. (www.ohjelmisto.org) Member
1/06 – 1/07 Finncon Association. (www.finncon.org) Member
2/96 – 4/04 SSKF Association. Member
4/94 – 8/98 Boy Scouts of Finland. VIPO. Member

Advisory Board and Advisor – roles

4/09 - now Netcycler, Ltd. (www.netcycler.com) Advisor
4/08 – now Xiha Life, Ltd. (www.xihalife.com) Advisory board member
2/08 – 2/10 Everyplay, Ltd.(www.everyplay.com) Advisory board member
6/07 Umbra Software, Ltd. (www.umbra.fi) Advisor
8/04 – 6/05 StarDoll, Ltd. (www.stardoll.com) Advisor to the founders and the CEO

Lawmaking and neutral political work

2009 Undisclosed member of the European Parliament candidate. Advisor on PR and Internet media.

2006 Undisclosed presidential candidate. Advisor on energy policy & software policy

2006 Commerce Committee & Environment Committee, Parliament of Finland. Advisor on energy policy & software IPR

Note: I'm NOT a member of ANY political party.

Other trusteeship roles

2/00 – 3/06 Analysys Inc. Expert member of the trends panel
2005 Ficix Association (www.ficix.fi). Deputy Auditor
2004 the 5th national scout jamboree. Master of wilderness skills (head of 200+ people organization)
1996 National Scout Championships. Chief of control point (head of 60+ people organization)

School and stuff

Executive Master of Business Administration. Helsinki School of Economics. 1st in academic standing. Class of 2004

International Management Academy, M.Sc Economy, Helsinki School of Economics.

3/02 – 9/02 Effective Personal Leadership, by Leadership Management International
9/01 – 10/01 Public relations training. Liberty Communication Inc, London UK
8/98 – 5/00 B.Sc. (Economy) studies at Espoo‐Vantaa Polytechnic, ”Laurea”
8/96 – 8/98 B.Eng. (Software) studies at Espoo‐Vantaa Institute of Technology
8/94 – 5/96 A.S. in construction engineering and architecture

Other anecdotal stuff

- Chosen as the Opinion Leader in ICT of 2010 by the FIPA
- Chosen as the Scrooge McDuck of Finland by AKU. Magazine (Donald Duck magazine).
- Graduated 1st in academic standing from HSE EMBA 2004
- Nominated for The Outstanding Young Person – award in 2008 by Junior Charmber International, Finland
- Was awarded the scholarship of the Berta Hernberg foundation for academic excellency.
- Turned down the role of “The Bachelor” in the TV series in fall 2008 (Conflicting schedules)
- Coached a Finnish national champion in Kickboxing
- Holds the world record in an academic problem‐solving test by Prof. Paul Claudel (University of Aix En Provence, France). Solved the complex information adaptation test in 19 minutes (many test subjects can never solve the test)
- Has directed and produced amateur TV stuff as a hobby
- Hobbies: martial arts, scuba diving, Internet culture, energy policy (Peak Oil), wilderness survival, hiking.
- Has been featured in many medias (very partial list): CNBC, MSNBC, STV, BBC, CCN, YLE1, YLE2, MTV3, Nelonen, SubTV, Telecom TV, Helsingin Sanomat, Welcome to Finland Magazine, Talouselämä, Bangkok post, Aamulehti. Iltalehti, Ilta‐sanomat, Kauppalehti, Tietokone, Tietoviikko, Kaleva, MicroPC, Savon Sanomat, IT‐Viikko, Entertainment Weekly (online edition)

+ a semi-retired but randomly active blogger!

You can also find my relatively up to date LinkedIn profile from here:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/taneli

Me in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taneli_Tikka

Me in Finnish Wikipedia (finnish language only):
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taneli_Tikka