To fill my quota of social media posts for the year, here’s a post about Facebook’s user base and real-world statistics. I was inspired by a post in a Finnish blog on social media about how the Facebook’s penetration rate in certain Finnish age groups is way over 100%. From its comments, I found that [...]
We’ve talked to a number of investor these last months and I can classify their questions into three categories: Intellectual Property Protection (IPP) Revenues and Operations Revenues is a straightforward concept and reflects market potential, market share, and business-model. Operations can also mean business-model as that clearly affects your operations, it also concerns the team, [...]
I’m currently on a tirade against two things. Global package delivery, which, every single time, seem to have me waste my time waiting for a doorbell to ring. And software-updates, which for some reason are a pretty fragmented affair. OK, there’s nothing to do about software updates and I already give up. Global package delivery, [...]
A quick note letting you know that the book I was involved with is now available online for free as a downloadable PDF. If you’re interested in what’s in the pipeline technology-wise in the coming decades be sure to read this report. As previously mentioned, this report is a compilation of articles written by the [...]
Both ‘startup’ and ‘entrepreneur’ are terms that immediately evoke an often false reaction from an audience and I would personally prefer not to describe my work using those words. In the following post, I write about three associations in regards to entrepreneurship, one positive, one negative, both somewhat false, and one what I see entrepreneurship [...]
If you are new to Twitter then it’s easy to get confused with so many twitter applications out there. Further, if you are a business user than you may have no time to do research on the applications. We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps [...]
This post is partially motivated by my colleague(I hope he is not reading this) who spent all his Christmas and New year Vacations at home with his PC still running next to my desk. I am amazed to calculate how much electricity he just wasted. Well, you wouldn’t leave your television ON for all day while you are [...]
I’m in a book. The course I took last year finally materialized into physical from couple of months ago. I’ve no idea if this book is actually available anywhere, even in a digital form. Well, at least I got mine. In the book a group of doctorate students from three universities in Helsinki wrote cross-disciplinary [...]
I’m always fascinated by business models, i.e. at how entrepreneurs and companies put together services in order to make money from them. I’d call it the source code of business if I hadn’t seen the other source code in Luxembourg —legal and accounting—but arguably that’s more like binary code, i.e. 99% unintelligible. Sarah Lacy writes [...]
What many of you might not know is that the reason Nokia became the biggest mobile phone manufacturer is because of Apple. When all their competitors were standing still, Nokia decided to think a bit differently. This story was one of the hidden gems in “Fast Strategy“, a book co-authored by Mikko Kosonen, a former [...]
First of all, Paris was great! For three days, Jeremy (Fain, founder of Tech IT Easy & Verteego.com) drove me crazy in a good way, by mapping out every single minute of my life. Similarly to how we met up in Barcelona, it was a great way to get to know the city and at [...]
This coming weekend, I’m visiting my dear friend Jeremy Fain, founder of this weblog and Verteego.com. Apart from being happy to see him again and meeting his wife for the first time, and that, knowing Jeremy, he will have planned some interesting things, what would you sell to me regarding a short visit in Paris? [...]
Hey guys, I wanted to pose this question on Twitter, but couldn’t describe it in 140 characters. Basically, if I want to learn about investing, what would be the best way to go about it? I noticed, reading Business Accounting for Dummies, that accounting is a topic that is very nationally driven. Sure, there are [...]
This is an angry post, so ignore if you can’t handle it. Nothing is as frustrating to as staring at a blank wall. And to continue to use that analogy, nothing is as frustrating as staring into the face of someone who radiates “there’s nothing I can do” or “there’s nothing I will do” to [...]
Since last September, I’ve been taking a Ph.D. level course on the future of internet, IT and related fields called Bit Bang at Helsinki University of Technology’s Multidisciplinary Institute of Digitalisation and Energy. The students are all Ph.D. students from either TKK (HUT), University of Art and Design Helsinki or my own Helsinki School of Economics. [...]
