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Welcome to tane.li! Glad to see you here.

This is meant to be as my place to preach what I practice and have experienced during my years of entrepreneurship and occasional big corporate adventures. The ideas is to share and participate in a meaningful dialogue about topics dear and important to me (and to us all I hope).

I plan to follow the kind of guideline I have often followed: speak my mind on a wide range of issues and topics, as opinionated as it may occasionally be. Sounds like a quick way to get into trouble, doesn't it?

The blog will touch on topics of: startup war stories, tabus, success cases, failure cases, venture capital and financing, public finance systems, bootstrapping guidelines and startup techniques, management and leadership, agile methodology, board of directors work, learning experiences, insights and comments into the startup scene and occasionally important recent events, startup strategy and world of thought, and controversial topics as well as my own shortcomings, doings and occasional victories.

Please do keep sending me ideas and commentary on what you would like me to write about through the details there in the contact tab.

I have also decided to go with a policy of openness and in this spirit have included the companies I have ownership-interests in the portfolio tab. While all ownership information is technically public in Finland (corporate law, chapter 3, section 17), it is still somewhat unusual for anyone to disclose ownership like this, which is a good enough reason to go about it. This country needs more openness and it might just as well start here.

Once upon a time I wrote a blog for about 1.5 years or so. It ended up being an extended rant&rave about high tech stuff and energy policy. Not going there this time mate, no worries ;)

I'm not really a writer, I'm a doer, and this is where I preach what I practice.

I invite you to join in and comment on everything, as well as sending me feedback on what ever is on your mind. Subscribe to the feed, the mailing list - I hope to see you here many times still!