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Thank You Sponsors

by Sponsor, March 11, 2010 — Leave a Comment

This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer.

MicrosoftInnovate!100 to Spotlight World’s Most Promising Tech Startups
Microsoft BizSpark is partnering with Guidewire Group in a global competition to identify a group of 100 top Startups from around the world, to be known as the Innovate!100. Winners will get global recognition, media promotion, expert feedback, and access to a variety of resources and opportunities to accelerate their growth. Visit Innovate!100 for more information and to apply.
Check out for the local Pitch Slams, Helsinki – 24 March 2010 and Stockholm 22 April 2010!

Enterprise HelsinkiEnterpriseHelsinki is an ongoing city initiative for new entrepreneurs and startups. In addition to free basic advisory on starting or growing your business, their mission is to help local startup ecosystem, by organizing and supporting related events, and by providing helpful tools and resources for the ecosystem.

 
 
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Thank You Sponsors

by Miikka Kukkosuo, February 19, 2010 — Leave a Comment

This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer.

MicrosoftInnovate!100 to Spotlight World’s Most Promising Tech Startups
Microsoft BizSpark is partnering with Guidewire Group in a global competition to identify a group of 100 top Startups from around the world, to be known as the Innovate!100. Winners will get global recognition, media promotion, expert feedback, and access to a variety of resources and opportunities to accelerate their growth. Visit Innovate!100 for more information and to apply. Check out for the local Pitch Slams, Helsinki, Finland – 24 March 2010!

Enterprise HelsinkiEnterpriseHelsinki is an ongoing city initiative for new entrepreneurs and startups. In addition to free basic advisory on starting or growing your business, their mission is to help local startup ecosystem, by organizing and supporting related events, and by providing helpful tools and resources for the ecosystem.
 
 

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If you wish to become ArcticStartup blog sponsor, please see more information here. If you are interested in sponsoring our ArcticEvening events, please contact events (at) arcticstartup.com.

Mobile Premier Awards At Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress

by Miikka Kukkosuo, February 4, 2010 — Leave a Comment

ArcticStartup is an official media partner of this year’s Mobile Premier Awards (MPA), the biggest open and global startup competition in the mobile industry. (The event went by the name Mobile Peer Awards last year.) The event is organized in collaboration with the industry’s largest networks such as MobileMonday, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), MEX, MobileActive.org, and Women 2.0.

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A Big Thank You To Our Sponsors In 2009

by Sponsor, December 30, 2009 — Leave a Comment

As the year end is closing, we would like to take a moment to express our gratitude and thanks to all of our wonderful sponsors who have supported us during 2009, and wish everyone an excellent and even better New Year.
Please have a look at what these firms and organizations have to offer, they are quite a versatile bunch.

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Sponsored: New Kind Of Acceleration For Startups

by Sponsor, November 24, 2009 — 1 Comment

YritysHelsinkiDuring the recent ArcticStartup and AES trip to Silicon Valley, there was an interesting lesson to be learned. It was commonly talked that it is not so much the countries competing for startups, but cities that are wanting to build ecosystems enabling growth startups to be founded and prosper. This is the approach the city of Helsinki is taking towards growth companies with Enterprise Helsinki’s new Startup Acceleration program. Simply put, it’s a free advisory service for all high growth oriented entrepreneurs and startups as well for networks of angel investors and experts that want to work on building these growth companies.
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Sponsor Post: Culminatum Innovation To Strongly Support Internationalisation Efforts

by Sponsor, November 2, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Culminatum InnovationCulminatum Innovations has come up with a totally new program to generate better growth companies from the digital content and services sector in Finland. The program is called International Business Program and it has several stages. The companies participating in the clinic this year may be eligible for 10 000 euros worth of internationalisation services.
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Sponsored: Zokem – Your Life. Share it. Automatically.

by Sponsor, October 28, 2009 — 2 Comments
Sponsor: Zokem – Your Life. Share it. Automatically.
http://zokem.com/
Zokem is a mobile communications and lifecasting startup that enables users to automatically share their daily activities to their friends’ mobile phones, to the Internet and to social networking services, such as Facebook and MySpace.
Zokem takes people’s activity information from mobiles to the Internet, not the other way around as most of the existing services do. Zokem offers its users a completely new way to communicate and keep in touch with friends and family by automating many of the normally manual messages between people, where the content is created by people simply living their lives.
Zokem aims to provide its service to all users no matter what device or service they are using. Therefore, Zokem has built a native mobile application to all major platforms (Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Android, iPhone and Java), and it is integrated with all major social networking services to enable its users to share their lives automatically through one single channel. Users may also define what information they want to share with different services and friend groups, as in real life.
Zokem is one of over 200 startups from Finland participating in BizSpark program. All startups, building their own software application, earning less than $1M/year of revenue, and that are privately-owned, can participate to BizSpark program.
“BizSpark has been an uncomplicated and easy partnership with nothing but pleasant surprises. It has helped us with tools that start-ups usually lack, and for young companies, like Zokem, there is only an upside in the business. BizSpark is also a good launching pad for being noticed globally.” Zokem CEO Ludovic Gaudé comments.
Startups get a MSDN premium subscription for three years, for each of their developers. Each subscription includes all of Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Expressions Studio developer tools, and all the platform software (Windows, Office, SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, etc) that they need to build and test the application. The majority of startups are also building web-based applications, which they’ll host themselves or though a hosting service provider like Nebula Oy in Finland, so BizSpark also provides free server licenses to put those applications into production. The production license allows unlimited use of Windows Server, SQL Server, BizTalk Server, SharePoint Server and Systems Center during the three-year membership.
Startups can enroll on http://microsoft.com/BizSpark. There they’ll see a list of organizations (BizSpark Network Partners) any of whom can enroll them in their own country, or they can contact Microsoft directly.

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Zokem logoZokem is a mobile communications and lifecasting startup that enables users to automatically share their daily activities to their friends’ mobile phones, to the Internet and to social networking services, such as Facebook and MySpace.

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Sponsor: Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program

by Sponsor, October 20, 2009 — Leave a Comment

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WebsiteSpark BannerAre you a small Web development and design company?

Join Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program to Ignite New Opportunities.

As the latest initiative in the Spark family of programs, which includes Microsoft BizSpark for startups, and DreamSpark for students, Microsoft is building upon a legacy of working with key communities and providing the additional support, tools and resources needed to help them thrive. The WebsiteSpark Program provides Web professionals with Microsoft software and solutions, together with related tools, training and support, to help their businesses succeed.

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Sponsor: GWeb2 – Digital Marketing Revolution

by Sponsor, October 1, 2009 — 1 Comment
The majority of these startups have joined the program through one of over 1300 Network Partners around the world. Network Partners are investors, incubators, user groups, advisors and organizations who provide programs and mentoring and uniquely know the Startup Community. To connect to Network Partners in Finland, go to http://www.microsoft.com/finland/bizspark.
Mr. Porvari’s comments on BizSpark:
“BizSpark has really helped us on building our R&D environment providing free resources, such as support and Visual Studio licenses with MSDN access making significant cost savings, which are vital for any start-up companies.”
Would you recommend other startups to join BizSpark?
“BizSpark has worked for us and it really does not bind us to use any particular technology or software solutions, instead we actually use open J2EE in our cloud computing platform, but can experiment with Microsoft’s solutions on the consumer touchscreen and mobile side freely.”

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gweb2 logoGWeb2 is the Digital Marketing Cloud Computing Company and they were first ones in Finland to join the BizSpark program. More than 20.000 Startups have already joined BizSpark and more than 180 of them from Finland. BizSpark is designed to help accelerate the success of early stage software startups by providing entrepreneurs fast and easy access to software, support and visibility. This summer GWeb2 was nominated as the Microsoft Startup of the Day.

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Sponsor: Sopima Demystifies Contract Management

by Sponsor, September 10, 2009 — 4 Comments

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Sopima logo“Online Contract Bank – A Contract Management Software-as-a-Service from the Microsoft Azure Cloud.”

Sopima takes a different approach to the entire contract management sphere. Sopima service is not an enterprise application that requires an IT project and contract professionals to make it happen. Sopima makes contract management easy and available for all size of companies; from large to small and medium size businesses too. With Sopima, your life with contracts is easier and you get value from day one.

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Sponsor: Microsoft BizSpark

by Sponsor, August 26, 2009 — Leave a Comment

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Microsoft BizSparkMicrosoft BizSpark

BizSpark is a program which offers new software businesses and entrepreneurs access to Microsoft design, development, and production tools with no upfront costs for up to three years. Members can also connect with a nationwide community of Network Partners – investors, incubators, service providers, and entrepreneurial organizations – who are keen to help.

For more information, or to connect with a Microsoft BizSpark advisor, please visit MicrosoftStartupZone.com/BizSpark.

For information in Finnish, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/finland/bizspark/

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Sponsor: Microsoft Biznes Mornings

by Sponsor, August 12, 2009 — Leave a Comment

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Tule kuuntelemaan bisnes-maailman tähtipuhujia!

Syksyn ensimmäinen Biznes-aamupäivä järjestetään viikon päästä tiistaina 18.8.! Varaa paikkasi torstaihin 13.8.2009 mennessä ilmoittautumalla projektipäällikkö Hanne Tuomaiselle sähköpostitse i-hatuom(at)microsoft.com.

Biznes-aamupäivät järjestetään:
Tiistaina 18.8. ja 20.10. ja 1.12. klo 9-11.30 Microsoftilla, Keilaranta 7, 02150 Espoo.
Tilaisuutta voi seurata myös LiveMeetinginä webissä, ks. alla.
Ideana on tarjota mahdollisuus verkostoitua, luoda yhteyksiä ja kuulla bisnes-maailman tähtipuhujia. Tarkempaa tietoa ohjelmasta, tapahtumien puhujista ja ilmoittautumisesta.
Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most: software, support, and visibility – with free enrollment. Over 12,000 startups internationally have participated in Microsoft’s BizSpark program, with over 150 new software startups in Finland.
Check the BizSpark site to see if you qualify – most privately held software development startups in business for less than 3 years that are generating annual revenue under USD $1 million can join.
More information is available at http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
(suomeksi http://www.microsoft.com/finland/bizspark)

Biznes-aamupäivät järjestetään:
Tiistaina 18.8. ja 20.10. ja 1.12. klo 9-11.30 Microsoftilla, Keilaranta 7, 02150 Espoo.

Ideana on tarjota mahdollisuus verkostoitua, luoda yhteyksiä ja kuulla bisnes-maailman tähtipuhujia.

Tarkempaa tietoa ohjelmasta, tapahtumien puhujista ja ilmoittautumisesta. Continue reading »