Arctic Startup secures funding
Antti Vilpponen
Being the founder of the blog, I’m very very glad to announce that we have secured funding from two Finnish venture capitalists. The money will be used to hire a full time blogger and expand the services overseas to other Scandinavian countries. We are still in talks of publishing the two private investors in the near future.
We’re thrilled of course, needless to say. However, we won’t be selling this blog so the focus will be kept critical and analytical in the future as well. The blog was started in 2007 with a suspicion that I will have time to continue writing it. Soon it gathered momentum and I had sort of an obligation from the fans and companies to continue on the track I’ve chosen. With this funding I see that our efforts have not been in vain.
A huge thanks to all the readers and companies involved - I’m starting of the day with a bottle of champagne :)
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April 1st, 2008 at 9:20 am
Congratulations.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Always good to announce great achievements like this of 1st of April ;-)
April 1st, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Congratulations! Good to see quality blogs succeeding, staying alive and expanding!
Cheers,
–jouni
April 1st, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Congrats Antti! (as long as it’s not an April fool’s prank). This blog always had high quality content so far and I certainly look forward to see more of it.
– Florian
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 am
[...] Arctic Startup - to be honest, not really funded just yet. It was simply too tempting not to post it after I got the idea. However, it wasn’t all that outrageous as Vierityspalkki fell for it as well as som commenters(sorry!). Is there a blog in Finland that has received proper funding yet? [...]
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 am
[...] -blogi, jonka perustajaa Antti Vilpposta Vierityspalkki haastatteli juuri viime viikolla, on saanut rahoitusta kahdelta suomalaiselta riskirahoittajalta. Vilpposen mukaan raha tullaan käyttämään kokopäiväisen bloggaajan palkkaamiseen ja [...]
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I’m feeling pretty smart right now. ;)
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Jon, no worries - others fell for it as well ;)
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
D*mn, it should have been true! There are some professional blog sites nowadays, which have received funding to go fully pro. Well, maybe next time :)