Stories, lessons and observations from years of mentoring, investing and building companies across the Nordic and Baltic startup ecosystem.
What was the cause. Having my best intentions I comment here the last huge, yet simply solvable problem, I crossed. Had an idea to write it down long time ago, but you know – summer is for other activities… Anyhow, the story went something like this. We were introduced to a very smart guy operating…
Read moreMake decisions or someone will for you. Usually crisis differs leaders from followers. This is the perfect occasion when people with higher ambition can step up and take a lead. It also shows whether current leaders are up the situation. Making decisions is the only thing that differs managers from obeying employees…
Read moreI recently started to help them conquer Estonian market and then COVID19 hit bigtime. Last days have been interesting, yes days. You gotta take days, each one by one. Things change too fast. But luckily in Nordics it's a change for better now. Frozen mental states are melting slowly…
Read more1. Where you find me next? It's gonna be my second time. Having my hopes up. Perhaps we'll have even decent amount of snow, as last time we were lucky – lots of snow. See you there!
Read moreFak it, strangers & dots. Start always begins from the end, because this is when you understand where you got yourself in after doing all that. Trying to refer back what happened during these very intense 3 days in Riga, Latvia, it might take me longer, but will focus only highlights of my learnings…
Read moreI will always remember these long nights in my empty office – everyone had left home hours ago and I was sitting there, going through numbers and plans, trying to come up with a strategy that could prevent troubles and help me to survive til next salary payout day…
Read moreThe story of my life wrapped up. 1. StartupDay 2019 I was usually on some snowboarding trip with my friends in the end of January, but in 2019 we went later. So I participated StartupDay, because we pitched for ticketing, badges, sales and other technical solutions with my company Mailbow…
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