One of China’s biggest news outlets, XINHUA, just visited our offices at the West Lake in Hangzhou – and made a lovely video about us, and the city we live in. Hangzhou is full of rich culture, beauty, nature, but also technology and entrepreneurship. Hangzhou with its policies and energizing people and community has provided…
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Everything is possible in China – even on a normal working day in Hangzhou
It’s great to live and work in China. This is far from an “oppressed” environment, and sometimes I actually feel even MORE free here, than in Europe. That’s due to the size of China – more people gives also more flexible tolerance for differences and different approaches. Some things, such as strongly publicly criticizing the…
Perhe, työ, lepo – kiitos Suomi upeasta kesästä!
Huhhuh, olipahan kesä! Hyvin merkittävä sellainen, jota en ikinä tule unohtamaan. Kiitos kaikille ystäville ja tutuille, joita sain ilon tavata, ja joiden kanssa muuten on ehtinyt olla yhteydessä. Ja niin kuin aina, koskaan ei kaikkia tärkeitä läheisiä ja tuttuja ehdi tapaamaan, onneksi tuskin viimeinen kerta kun käy Suomessa. 🙂 Kolmella sanalla, mistä kesässäni oli kysymys?…
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….
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…
How to run a company in China? (updated)
“You learn how to run a company only by running a company.” — Ben Horowitz I love Hard Thing About Hard Things! That among many other giant works that has supported me a lot during this spring. But it is about running a company, not about China. “You learn how to run a company in…
Slush moments #4: Darude and Sandstorm at Slush Music
How great to meet the dancemusic and DJ legend Darude, Ville Virtanen. Really great guy. Part of the magic of the Slush music. Had an awesome 25 min talk with him – and again after his Slush afterparty performance. Learnt a lot. He’s very down to earth. Doesn’t make a too big a number of…
Brexit: which one is integrating, Europe or China?
At the verge of the biggest political chaos in European Union since its founding, I’d like to share a few of my viewpoints here. Brexit shows Europe doesn’t know where it should be going, China does The discourse on integration on Europe and China is totally upside down There is still hope for Europe if…
A coffee with a China specialist: benevolence, adaptability, knowledge (and Plan B)
Things seem to be calming down and life goes on. Had a great meeting with Mikko Puhakka. He’s an independent maverick, a guy who does stuff on his own, knows the protocol yes, but doesn’t care too much about the governmental posing, as long as stuff goes forward. Mikko is also a well-respected consultant. I…
€1bn Kaidi deal only a good start for Finland and China
The big boom of this week: Chinese energy giant Kaidi plans to build a €1bn biofuel plant in Lapland, Northern Finland. Welcome to the land of Santa Claus, Northern lights and amazing sceneries! The possible deal tells about the great cooperation and trust between China and Finland. It’s also a success of a gradual work…
America, the exceptional shining (hamburger) city on a hill
Welcome to The land of liberty, freedom and pursuit of happiness. Welcome to the United States of America. Welcome to the land of the founding fathers, of Abraham Lincoln, of the warring heroes, of promise of the better tomorrow, the land of hope, God, the exceptional shining city on a hill. Welcome to…
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