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Meltlake by Futurice, the founding story

Posted on 18.08.2020

Meltlake by Futurice got founded as a new sister company early this month. I’ll review the founding story in this blog post. Many of friends and colleagues have asked me about the company and the relationship I have with the founded start-up. In this blog post, I’ll explain how everything started and what was my role in the new start-up. Joining The Futurice UK I joined Futurice Group London branch in September 2018. That is after having an eight months…

The sweet goodbye

Posted on 15.01.2018

Recently I have seen some motivation videos about successful people like Jack Ma or Elon Musk on Facebook. The Video begins by telling how miserable was their life by failing over and over, dropping-off or leaving the university, nobody wanted to give them a job and then something happens. Their life changed by trying harder and they become successful, a Billionaire! I guess in most cases becoming a Millionaire/Billionaire part is what makes people watch those videos? The only thing I could…

An Excellent Idea for A START-UP! (PART 2)

Posted on 18.04.2017

Recently, I attended a conference at Metropolia University of Applied Science as a co-speaker with my dear friend and workmate Jouko Nyholm. We attended to present about “Enterprise IT and Microsoft Solutions”. Attendees were a group of final year students from the Information Technology and Media engineering course. I spoke about entrepreneurship and during the questions and answer part, a student raised a funny question. The question was “So what is the next good idea to create a new start-up?”. My…

An Excellent Idea For A Start-up! (Part 1)

Posted on 16.08.2016

It has been a while since my last blog post, but in IT business a lot happens at beginning of the year which has kept me particularly busy. I would like to dedicate my next two posts to the subject of an “Idea” and the importance of the idea behind start-ups. Whilst acting as an entrepreneur, I have engaged in constructive discussions with young entrepreneurs and some students who are planning their own start-ups. In most cases, I felt that young entrepreneurs do not focus on the idea…

To Be Or Not To Be A Startupper

Posted on 14.12.2015

Back days during my university studies, I was always wondering what is the source of multi-billion dollar/euro enterprises. How can you create such a company, and what do you need to be able to run the company. There are still many people, who are thinking about the same questions and trying to seek the answer. Let me make the answer easy to understand. Any living object in this world has a start. Even our world had its own start during the big bang process. Companies…

Follow, Believe and Take Over

Posted on 24.11.2015

In my last two posts I had a review of the history of my entrepreneurship and the experience in a large corporation. In this blog post I will have a review of my transfer to a smaller company and the revoke of the belief to entrepreneurship. This will be my last blog post about the history and from the next post I will concentrate on entrepreneurship and the creation of startups. Here is again a quote from Jack Ma (the founder of…

The Big Bang of My Entrepreneurship

Posted on 15.09.2015

They say history matters, and they are right. Here is the story of my wonderful failure and the first startup I created more than 14 years ago. It was beginning of the millennium and the web/browser based games started to become more general. I was hooked with a game called Planetarion. The game was browser-based massively multiplayer online game and the idea was to build, develop create an army and destroy the enemy (Like all other strategy games). Planetarion story…