How does the Finish startup scene look like? The best way to find out is by speaking with one of its most active players, Taneli Tikka. Over the last ten years he founded 4 businesses himself, funded 10, became a board member of 13 (such as muxlim), was the CEO or COO of 7 (such as dopplr), managed 10 rounds of financing for a value of 15 Mill, sold three companies (one for 12,5 Mill in shares) and bought 1.
Taneli Tikka is most known for IRC-Galleria, a very active social network which includes more than 70% of the Finish youth. His newest engagement is RunToShop, a product recommendation system.
At his blog tane.li, he describes himself as a "serial entrepreneur and dealmaker with an active history of allround leadership and strategy work. Plus a reasonably laid-back yet opinionated dude." There he writes about startups of cause but especially about war stories, tabus, success and failure cases. To learn more about the Finish startup scene, just follow him on his blog.
A lot of numbers and informations... besides that, Taneli always looks for great new investment oportunities.
