Seedcamp 2008 was fun
Spent a day at London [Seedcamp](http://seedcamp.com/) Week’s [Product and Marketing Day](http://seedcamp.com/pages/weeks_program#2008) again. Hit quite a jackpot on the mentoring group selection...
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Found a video of my five minute speech in a panel at Restart 2008 conference in November. To disrupt the overall tone of the day a bit — focusing on tangible, measurable and often plain numeric aspects...
View ArticleSummer of Startups 2011
Spent almost a full day last week in Helsinki by invitation of Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (See also: #aaltoes & on FB) to speak to 10 teams of their Summer of Startups program. All-in-all it...
View ArticleA Year With Estelon
Pretty much exactly 12 months ago I made my first angel investment ever in a company that makes physical things. My entire entrepreneurial career and the businesses I’ve supported on the side have...
View ArticleWeek 2: Explorers/Exploiters, Public Governance and Normals
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 2, Summer quarter Pages assigned for reading: 310 Reminder: think of normals not in their absolute value, but as “how many standard deviations from mean”...
View ArticleWeeks 18-20: Innovation Economy, Debate Blunders and Creative Computing
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 8-10 (18-20), Autumn quarter Not to worry, despite of the three week scope in title this is not a monster-length post. Between a lovely wedding, an unexpected...
View ArticleThe Intersection Event 2013
Spent an inspiring day at The Intersection Event at Googleplex. Full agenda is here and my notes from the sessions below. Women Panel: Helene Gayle (CARE), Sheryl WuDunn, Lorraine Twohill (Google),...
View ArticleWeek 27: Tech IPOs, Seed Investing, Bankruptcies & International Trade
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 7 (27), Winter quarter After the public holiday last Monday (which I realized could not have been more eclectic between sick kid babysitting, running, building a...
View ArticleRobots Remake the Workplace
Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot speaking… via a robot Spent half a day today at legendary research hub SRI International, for Xconomy-organized robotics forum (see full agenda here), listening to an...
View ArticleEstonia As Home Base For Roaming Entrepreneurs
Had some great interview questions from Arkadii Zaitsev, who is writing a piece about Estonian e-residency for a Russian-languaged publication called Meduza (worth checking their design!), operating...
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