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Today, just a few minutes ago, I was speaking at the AaltoES Startup Sauna kickoff event.

Here are my slides as a PDF from that event:

Small filesize version here. (1 meg)

Large filesize (over 60MB, very high res images you see...) version here.

As always, all feedback is much welcomed!

It has been a while since I last blogged anything. Seems like the "doing" part is overwhelming the "writing" part, for now at least.

Honestly one of the reasons why I have become a less active blogger lately has to do with how rewarding and motivating writing a blog really is. Sadly I have noticed that people are far less active and give far less feedback than I would have hoped. This almost directly results in declining motivation and writing less, even tho I probably would have a little "something" to say about a few things still..

Anyways here's some upcoming things for the fall:

Next Monday, on the 21st of September I will be chatting at MTV3 morning TV show "Good Morning Finland" again. This time it's going to be about a medical-genetics startup I have been working on pretty much all summer. I will be there with Tuija Takala who is a specialist/scientist in ethics. We are discussing the possibilities of genetics, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine and ethical implications thereof. The new startup is based on patented inventions on genetic information systems and processing; the end product is system which can optimize and recommend your diet, lifestyle implications, medication and therapies. Basically it gives you deeply personalized knowledge that allows you to live healthier longer life.

The next day, on Tuesday the 22nd I will be speaking at an event organized by Sefe, the Finnish Association of Business School Graduates, or more specifically their entrepreneurship "wing".

At the turn of the month I'll be at MindTrek ( http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/ ) giving a brief talk before the startup company pitches.

On 7th of October I'll be speaking at an entrepreneurship conference in Tallin, Estonia. The attendants are mainly students and aspiring entrepreneurs. Good stuff, sounds like a great event full of positive energy.

On November the 12th I'll be in Lahti, speaking at an event by MBE about social media, recommendations, and the like. This would be all in finnish.

Later in November I'll be speaking in the invite-only CEO-only event FICTA in Levi. About social media and it's implications to strategy.

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Besides speaking what else is there?

We'll I'm seriously considering co-writing a finnish-language book on entrepreneurship and startups. This would be the kind of "spill it all out and give advice" -typeof guide book, where I would try to highlight everything I find important and meaningful in startup building and success. Digital version of the book is a must, as probably is an International version as well. There seems to be none of these kind of books around in finnish language. Please do tell me if this is a bad idea, so I can save myself the trouble ;)

I am also working on 3 different startups, finding out about if we get them really going, funded, cast with great teams etc. Interesting times certainly!

First I have to be a bit apologetic about blogging too much about my own speaking gigs and such shameless self-promotion. Writing something with more substance has had to take a back seat in the busy dealings of the startup world. However that might change quite soon as I now have more time on my hands to concentrate on writing something with more substance. So, perhaps you'll see a few blog entries like "ye olden days" here again soon, stay tuned.

Meanwhile; I'll be having a chat in a seminar organized by Deasign Finland at Teatteri on May the 5th. The event is open for signups and you have around 5 days of time to go and sign up though their site:

http://www.deasign.com/su

(all in Finnish, as is the presentation itself).

The target audience is marketing executives etc of companies in both; the b-2-b and b-2-c space. Feel free to tip your contacts (and encourage them to sign up) ; this is a good chance to come and have some brunch, and a few good takeaways if we are lucky.

About a week from now I will also be talking in an event organized by the VCs in Finland (their own internal event). About what's going on in the social media space and how they should value and evaluate social media companies.

What would you say to them about that? What do you think is the most essential criteria or quality or quantity in a social media company that they should look at? Revenue? Visitors? Team? Ideas? Potential? all of those?

Let your voice be heard and I promise you this; if you come up with a good one, I'll use that and mention from whom I got it from ;-)

I'm having a chat (as a member of 2-person panel) in Bolder Academy event, on wednesday 8th of April. This is the 4th and final of a series of events organized by the Aalto innovation university and www.bolder.fi

The venue is the same space where I have spent hours listening to professors giving lectures.. If you happen to be around Ruoholahti on wednesday evening come say hi. It starts at 18:00. Here's a link to their Facebook group that they also use for signups.

In about 2 weeks time I'll be here:

http://www.v2c.info/

At the Global Venture Lab - V2C Forum event in Jyväskylä.
(takes place 23-24 March)

Here's some info about GVL directly from their site:

"Global Venture Lab is a university based business creation platform dedicated to problems worth solving. GVL is empowered by globally connected faculty, students, and alumni of business competence.

The first GVL kickoff took place in the USA, at UC Berkeley, on November 21, 2008, followed by India and IIT Kharagpur, on January 8. The GVL kickoff in Finland, at JYU, on March 23, 2009, marks the birth of the GVL Network."

Here's a link to a PDF with the full 2 day program in it.

The event is free. If you are around, come say hi!