Startups
Pawn Promotion coaching at Aalto
09/08/10 13:49
Yes, Pawn Promotion will be part of the Fall 2010 startup coaching at Aalto Venture Garage. Will be very interesting, knowing that many startups are using clouds - or should be. Stay tuned!
Microstartups
09/05/10 05:00
Some time ago I did a blog called ‘microstartups’...
I just cleaned it up (removed the last year’s posts on non-related cloud projects etc) so you can go there and read some scribbles on startup related topics. Then return to this one ;-)
My old blog: http://microstartups.blogspot.com
A garage full of great ideas
06/05/10 15:38
Pawn Promotion visited Aalto Venture Garage Demo Day - May 5, 2010, Espoo, Finland
We’ve been following ycombinator with great interest since its very start in Boston, and always wanted something similar nearby. In “COPYING YCOMBINATOR - A Framework for developing Seed Accelerator Programmes”, Jed D. Christiansen explains why this is hard to copy. Still, why not try? Take the good parts in this, let it inspire you – and then just do it.
In Espoo, they’ve done it – and it looks very promising. The demos this Wednesday ranged from basic ideas to hardware research – some with good business models, some with more idealistic ideas of improving the life for many if not all. Our interest is primarily in cloud based startups and there were a few, and they got our votes. Some like Videolla and Hipui are cloud users, some like MySites make their own cloud services. We expect to see more of this, very soon.
So, if you have time – go to Helsinki and Espoo to see some new interesting startups and ways to support these!
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Note: all presenters got a few minutes to pitch, and quite some % was spent on getting their laptops connected… At start this looked like a bad idea, but thinking again, it was not: this is the real situation they will meet when trying to conquer the world. Some should read the advice from Guy K: “How to be a demo god” (I saw that they had the ‘Reality Check’ in their book shelf – as well as ‘Founders at work’ – of course). Our advice is to pick the least interesting meetings first and practice on these, but that only applies if you have any choice.
Pawn Promotion visiting Aalto
05/05/10 10:05
Pawn Promotion visiting Aalto Venture Garage Demo Day
Starts at 3 PM (CEST+1) - can be followed on the web.
“Be there or be square”
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Starts at 3 PM (CEST+1) - can be followed on the web.
“Be there or be square”
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Books to read, if into startups
21/04/10 14:58
Running a startup? No time to read? Well, read these two if you can get the time... It's a good investment. First read REWORK by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson (see also http://37signals.com/rework). After that you might MAKE time to read Founders at work: stories of startups' early days by Jessica Livingston.
The Cloud as a Competitive Edge
31/03/09 16:49
The Cloud as a Competitive Edge for Young Companies – A Startups Story
One motivator for us doing cloud computing is the value it can add to early stage startups. In this presentation John Barr from Yieldex shows how it helped them get into business.
One motivator for us doing cloud computing is the value it can add to early stage startups. In this presentation John Barr from Yieldex shows how it helped them get into business.