Blog Archive / December 2008

ENCA is now open to all

www.enca.fi finally opens up its doors to everyone.

You can sign up from this link, or by clicking at the image:

http://www.enca.fi/signup/

Previously I had issued an invitation to all readers in my ye olde post:

http://tane.li/category/encafi

Feel free to spread the word ;)

ENCA has been an interesting side-project for me. Being involved...

Muxlim selected for Red Herring Global 2008 finale

www.muxlim.com the world's largest social media site for muslims has been selected to be one of the Red Herring 2008 global finalists.

I am on the board of directors, and one of the business angels funding the company.

You can find the full finalist list with 200 names on it from here:

http://www.herringevents.com/global08/redherring100.html

ActicStartup.com...

RunToShop closes its largest financing round yet

Since this summer I have been actively developing www.runtoshop.com from scratch. Run is aiming to create a central mashup like hub for recommendation activity to boost sales of online stores. The idea is simple: interesting enthusiastic people expressing their strong opinions and recommendations about the stuff that they love...

IRC-Galleria strategy, a thesis interview

I was recently asked by one of the Dopplr team members to answer a series of questions regarding Ye Olde IRC-Galleria strategy stuff for a master's thesis she is currently writing.

www.irc.fi is commonly known as one of the clear success cases in the local market here in social...

War Story: IT services in the middle of the Indian Ocean Tsunami

This War Story is one of those stories that was certainly interesting to experience, but oddly enough I haven't been really talking about this almost at all. It's a story of how severe natural disasters can also open up good relationships and expand businesses.

Back then I was (CEO) with Magenta...

Video interview on Tiburon TV

I did an interview with Viktoria Trosien for Tiburon TV at the Slush Helsinki event. It just got posted online as a video that you can find from here:

http://www.tiburon-tv.com/2008/12/01/i-started-with-failing-serial-entre...

It's about how I "started with eventually failing" when Taika Technologies had to discontinue after a promising start (that's...