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It’s cold, dark and there’s slush on the ground in November in Finland. Still, lots of cool new startups will be meeting on November 3rd and 4th 2009 in Helsinki at the Slush Conference: Slush! is an event organized by startups for startups, aimed to motivate people to start their own businesses and to support networking. Tiburon-TV’s Viktoria has interviewed one of the co-organizers of this cool event: Antti Vilpponen from ArcticStartup, the leading blog on Nordic and Baltic startups.



Slush! features a showcase area for around 40 startups as well as a startup developer track for information sharing among developers. “The Slush made me do it!” sessions are about all the major Finnish Internet era success stories – check out Viktoria’s interviews from Slush 2008 featuring Petteri Koponen from Jaiku, Sampo Karjalainen from Habbo Hotel, Ilkka Paananen from Digital Chocolate and many more Scandinavian tech entrepreneurs.

There’s a Slush Seven Startup Competition based on the Slush Fund that offers winners seed funding as well as support from the brightest Finnish minds. Click here to be kept informed about the latest updates from Slush. Tickets will be going on sales soon!

And please remember that this is not Southern France, so you better take some warm clothes…

Guillaume Alabert, co-founder of TexoMobile.com presents the startup which is based in NYC and Aix-en-Provence: TexoMobile creates mobile communities, B2C and B2B2C – its B2B2C wapmaster community MobPartner is by far the largest in the world with close to 15 000 wapmaster affiliates @ Le Mobile 2.0, March 2009 in Paris, France

For more information on Le Mobile 2.0, please visit our website www.tiburon-tv.com

He also promotes the crises cause it enables lower costs and more human ressource potentials available. "who can succeed now, will be even more successful when the economy is up again". But you need a real business model, even if twitter proofs the contrary. Focus, be selfcritical, networking, search the opinion of others, try to outsource. Approach investors strategically with enough time in advance, learn about your investor, what are their goals, prepare. --- www.tiburon-tv.com - Posted using MobyPicture.com

Providing numbers and promoting the openess of the operating system. But will it become faster? Nothing announced... :(
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Antti Vilpponen has co-organized the SLUSH event with ArcticStartup, the leading weblog on Nordic and Baltic startups, founded by Antti in 2007. Since there were also a number of startup companies involved in the organization of the SLUSH, Antti finds „it is a great show of talent to have a startup event organized by startups themselves“. Antti „fell in love with small companies and organizations“ after he graduated and started working for Apaja, a Finish gaming company. He finds working for a startup company „is a way of life and it’s about enabling things and creating new stuff.“ According to Antti, „Arctic companies are slowly becoming more like their Western counterparts, more aggressive in marketing and product launching. At the grass-roots level we are doing relatively well, but we need to embrace the whole ecosystem from the governmental side with bigger organizations embracing startups as well.“ That is why ArcticStartup wants to facilitate connections: „We need to create a strong online community to form companies and share ideas,“ says Antti. „It is also crucial to see more knowledge sharing from the ones who have IPOed. That way we can produce success stories even faster.“ ArcticStartup helps create „a radically optimistic entrepreneurial culture in the Nordics and Baltics“ and wants „to grow the blog larger and incorporate it into a company relatively soon in order to have a true market-based business.“ Furthermore, the ArcticStartup team wants to facilitate the internationalization of Nordic and Baltic internet and mobile software startups: „You just can’t break free from the Arctic regions without connections“ stresses Antti. „Also, the language is a big barrier – that’s why we blog in English.“ Anybody interested in the Nordic market should contact ArcticStartup, says Antti. „We’re more than glad to help!“ Please also notice that as of now, Antti will cover the Nordic startup scene on www.tiburon-tv.com in a regular report.

Finnish entrepreneur Paavo Perttula talks about the company he co-founded in August 2008: Tweehouse.com, a social gaming company based in Helsinki and in Santa Monica, California. Tweehouse offers services to global kid’s brands for early teens. Paavo, who is running the company as Chairman of the Board, remarks that they developed their own technology platform called Trunk Tech and offer an end-to-end service that is „highly unique“: Everything from building the concept to running the service, moderation and customer service is included. As Paavo points out „Tweehouse is a services company to start with“. Tweehouse is currently building the first game for a California-based client - „an eco-themed kids MMO“ game which will be launched in Q3 this year. Tweehouse is based on a three-tier-business model: The initial build and the consulting services that cover the creative team costs on one hand and running the site as well as hosting the moderation on the other. Paavo says „we are reasonably priced in terms of project delivery and expect to get a share of the revenue and be involved in the long run.“ Paavo spends half of his time as sales director at the Finnish Internet Agency Valve, that owns 50 percent of Tweehouse while the other half is owned by Santa Monica-based game company Snap TV. No third party investors are involved. „If you have a good idea and you will be approached by VC money, it might feel very tempting at first, but think of the consequences“ advises Paavo. „If you want to be doing your own thing in the long term, perhaps it’s better to consider other options such as selling professional services. But what’s most important: Don’t sell cheap.“ Viktoria's interview with Paavo has been conducted at the SLUSH event, co-organized by arcticstartup, a great blog covering the Nordic startup scene.