Scandinavian ABC collective:
- Twitter - aggregates tweets from individuals working in Scandinavian ABC ecosystem. Also, announces things sometimes.
- Reddit - our reading list for orienting ourselves.
- ScanABC companies are listed at Ääkköset Oy web pages
- @ronchaine had returned from his around-the-world trip and was intrigued by the prospect of running a startup testdrive
- @whiteeyedoll stopped by to chat about various topics, from modernizing IT-systems to perks of modern Linux desktops. SampleCloud, Google App Engine.
- @tvaisanen visited and dreamed about a collaborative dependency mapping tool for critical organistions.
SensorFu has structured their development plans and are now looking at what will be build in-house, and for can be outsourced.
- Jesse and Jani from http://remod.fi visited us.
- @turmi0 introduced the idea of SensorFu.
- Jesse@Remod and Jani@Remod envisioned a gateway-drug for the SensorFu product, as well as talked about different product ideas.
- Sami@Kielo dropped by to plan Vulmeet and mentioned new investor connections. Jesse@Remod tipped off about the latest trend: Investor One Pagers. We were immediately attracted to the idea.
SensorFu workshop. Kickstarting the R&D. @Turmi0 from SensorFu recapped alternative tech-paths. @oherrala provided details and opinions. We ruthlessly picked @ecode's brains as he made the mistake of visiting us. @evilon and @fenris messed up the whiteboards and asked a lot of questions.
- We reflected the implications of different technical choices to collaboration:
- in-house development,
- collaboration with scanabc companies, and
- collaboration with scanabc partners (F-Solutions, Remod, etc...)
- Sales vectors. Positioning SensorFu tech:
- Simplified: "I get this problem, and easy to jump on-board"
- Positioning through long term vision - longer term work as the customers have not planned purchases on such product.
- Familiar: piggybacking with marketing $$$ from others, but get distracted with unaligned feature parity requests.
- Killed a hefty amount of alternatives for now, zeroing in on an MVP.
Kielo arranged a failure-themed Tuesday.
- Ari Takanen from Kielo opened the session by listing the typical startup challenges
- @evilon from Ääkköset Oy enjoyed a lot talking about his failures in life and work.
- Mikko from Sonolux spoke about how to burn money to build perfectly built loudspeakers and how he dealt with the failures before pivoting for something commercially viable.
- Mika Ruostesuo from Ruostesuo Consulting gave a simple message in his talk: if you haven't failed, you haven't tried hard enough.
Later the day we gathered together with the HowNetWorks crew to plan an awareness campaign about URI:teller.
Ääkköset and Kielo arranged a joint Open session at Teknologiatie 18 (video)
- @evilon from Ääkköset Oy introduced OUSPG Open
- Christian Wieser from Radai talked about Fablab and Radai Oy
- Juha Keränen from SUPER GOD invigorated vivid discussion about building social media following and building a game fanbase.
- Sakari Sanaksenaho from Sparta Consulting talked about how Sparta became the rebel consultant shop with money-back guarantee.