Great days in Oulu finished last week with inspiring meetings with Oulu city, with Chief Executive Mr. Kyösti Oikarinen, with Education teams and actives, with BusinessOulu acknowledged director Juha Ala-Mursula and a bunch of their great team members, and much more. I really love this city and think it has a special way to function…
Polar Bear Pitching 2018 in Oulu very inspirational and meaningful
Great to visit one of my favourite cities in the world, Oulu. Had the honor to join the Polar Bear Pitching, last week, to host a China education workshop, and pitch China cooperation directly to the Minister of Foreign Trade, Mr. Kai Mykkänen (whom I pitched for the first time while a 14-year old student…
Great time with a few China-Finland pioneers in Finland
Great to be back in Finland! Even though I’m from here, even though I have close loving relatives and dear friends here, I more and more feel that I’m “visiting” here. When going back Hangzhou I feel I’m “back home”. That’s interesting. Super happy though good friends – and also the developments between China and…
POLAR BEAR PITCHING IN CHINA! Hangzhou full of snow, ice and attitude…
Super happy and proud today to be part of bringing POLAR BEAR PITCHING to China. The very exciting event for startups – and for much more, was historically brought to China. A small scale beautiful kickstart, and a weekend of part of the Global Game Jam in Hangzhou. It’s never easy to do foreign-based events…
Alibaba, Business Finland, New Team – An exciting week in China
A very good and intense week behind! Visits in Beijing, 2 new advisors, a ton of new leads and a promising development with our existing friends. I have sometimes thought that if I could do anything anywhere in the world right now, I wouldn’t do anything except what I’m doing now. That’s a blessed feeling….
Day 7, Hangzhou
A good day in Hangzhou, full review on all of our Business plan and our customers and roadmap to the spring, year and light review until 2022. This is something for good, Not only a 30m dash, Where you put all your efforts in creating an extravaganza and short term benefits – but doing a…
Day 6, Hangzhou! A day FULL of work, from morning till midnight – and I love it
Day 6, Hangzhou! A day FULL of work, from morning till midnight – and I love it First day for Olivia, the very potential newcomer, she got really well in and straight into the action of the hottest entrepreneurial city in the world at this moment. We had also a bunch of stuff coming today….
A life full of purpose – Hangzhou, day 5
Newcomers, entrepreneurial environment, Hangzhou historical influence, moves, the purpose of your direction… Today genuinely happy to have a newcomer in our team in Hangzhou. Olivia Aaltonen, soon graduating promising student from Turku flew all over to Hangzhou to join the Mingle Superstars team. Was very delighted to show her around one of the new entrepreneurial…
New year – new communication, new habits – welcome 2018 !
The new year is here! So are new opportunities and chance to strengthen new habits. I realised last year, that I am not communicating enough. I have been very passionately DOING things and focusing on some things, but haven’t been talking that out a lot. I have got feedback, that I’d need to communicate more…
Oulu and China – What an awesome story!
One year ago I had visitors in Hangzhou from the city of Oulu, in Northern Finland. Together I had a chance to meet with some of their leaders and help to understand Hangzhou and its opportunities better. Together with determined Oulu entrepreneurs we supported the Bridge-building and revitalizing of the China cooperation in Hangzhou. One…
Education passion in Hangzhou – first account visionaries at the 14th High School
Confucius used to say that education is the key to everything. That’s how Chinese still think. Even if Mao Zedong tried to take Confucius down. Even during the Mao era Chinese literacy and peasant and people’s education level sky-rocketed. In 1949, 85% of the Chinese couldn’t even read. With determined contributions that number went down…
Godspeed, Risto!
Today had an awesome opportunity to discuss directly with a person who has made one of the biggest impact on me in the past years, the coding entrepreneur, hope of the nation, even of the world, the one building deep bridges between China, Finland and the world, the Nokia chairman and F-secure founder, Mr. Risto…
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