Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Startups in Helsinki

I was invited to go to Artic Startup's event, where entrepreneurs and others interested in starting up a business in Finland can meet, make connections, and exchange ideas.

There was a talk show in which Antti Vilpponen interviewed three people who are working on their growing startup companies. It seemed that people agreed that Helsinki is probably not the best place for startups, due to the fact that there is no venture capital culture, and that people are not so willing to take risks.

Despite low opportunity in financial support, I think it's important to mention, though, that Finland is a very nice place to start a company. Things get done so fast here - and very efficiently. The co-founder and CTO of XIHA life told me he really thinks the best startegy is to start a company here, and move to somewhere else - well, he meant the Bay Area, lol.

To stay or not to stay: that is the question. It seems there are going to be more of these meetups so I will attend a few more and make up my mind then :)

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