The Future Just Arrived - Grey Area Is Developing A New Kind Of Mobile Gaming Genre From The Ground Up

Grey Area, a small startup operating in stealth mode, is gearing up to change the cityscape for everybody. I get back to how they are going to do this later in the post, but the story of how this startup came to be is equally interesting.

I first met the guys back in OpenCoffee Helsinki what must be more than a year ago. I remember Mikko Hämäläinen telling me how they were exploring possibilities to set up a company with two of his friends, Andreas Karlsson and Teemu Tuulari, from Ericsson. All three had started at Ericsson in 2003-2004 and met when they were put in the small team with the task of developing an Ericsson network node.

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Ville Vesterinen joining Arctic Startup

I interviewed Ville Vesterinen last a few nights ago as he's joining our team here at Arctic Startup. We've been organising startup events together with Ville for a while and thought it only made sense to further combine our efforts. Ville has also been running the Open Coffee Club here in Helsinki.

Welcome Ville, really glad to have you on the team!

Updated the video player to Blip.tv, which seems to have very good quality video playback.

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