welcome to finland

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 ;)

As an act of shameless self-promotion (forgive me) I'm letting you know about a cool interview I did for Welcome to Finland magazine.

The current issue of the magazine is so new that they don't seem to have the latest issue on their website yet. Welcome to Finland is a magazine that's targeting business travellers to Finland. They have a readership of more than 150.000 or so.

The interview and the associated photoshoot was fun to do. If my startup career fails I'll go into male modeling ;-)

You can find the paper in Finnish embassies, airport lounges, ferries, cafés, and various hotels including my favorite the luxurious Hotel Kämp. The Academic Bookstore and Stockmann also have it on sale.

In the article I talk about my startup life and history, especially where my "online community expertise" comes from originally, and share some views on attitude towards entrepreneurs and get a bit political towards the end. If you really want a copy of it, I might be able to send you one. Drop me a message and we'll see what I can do.