The Travelling salesman -project will start in only two days. We wrote about this ridiculously cool and ambitious project a while back in September. The kickstart of the journey will be held in the evening of the second day of Slush (21st of October from 4pm onwards), a web/startup oriented conference taking place in Helsinki. You can sign-up to the event in Facebook (disclosure: I will be on the panel).

The Helsinki event in itself will go through the project once more and showcase the different companies affiliated with the project. One has to remember, this project is trying to find the northern most tech startup as well as get stories from the road on how startups do business in the Nordics. To do so, Lawson plans to visit a lot of different university cities.

Not only will the event host some information on the travel and a panel comparing the startup ecosystems in Helsinki and the Valley, but also a startup pitching competition. The winner takes home an XBox sponsored by Microsoft. This is perhaps the easiest it has been to take home an XBox, as there are only a handful of companies pitching at the moment. If you're interested, do contact Kristoffer Lawson himself.

Do take a look at the travel plan on their website and if you're in one of the towns, get in touch with Kristoffer. We're proud to co-operate with the Travelling salesman project and we'll be periodically covering Kristoffer's trip on ArcticStartup.

It will be epic.

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Kristoffer Lawson October 19, 2010

Thanks, Antti, for the mention! I'll definitely keep you guys posted on the best startups I find during the tour, and about the culture in various places.

For people interested in pitching: the winners will get two free tickets to the Alternative Party, the large digital media and art festival taking place all weekend (with some extra sweet startup-related surprises coming up). Second place gets one free ticket.

All pitches will be videoed and put online and spread around.

Plus, as mentioned, X-Boxes for best in countries. So never been a better time to come and tell the crowd what you're company does and get some tough feedback and questions :-)