Thank You Sponsors
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer.
The Sun Startup Essentials program is specifically designed to help startups get their business off the ground FAST with the right IT infrastructure at the LOWEST COST possible. This program is available in many countries throughout the world. You can also go directly to your local country's Sun Startup Essentials program web page to learn more.
The Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Association is a non-aligned association for innovative, professional, growth-friven and entrepreneurial software business executives. Association drives the success of software business as an industry and supports individual software companies in their road to success.
Ohjelmistoyrittäjät ry on sitoutumaton, kasvuhakuisten ja yrittäjähenkisten ohjelmistoyritysten johdon yhteisö sekä ohjelmistoalan kehittäjä ja edunvalvoja Kehitämme kasvuhakuisten ohjelmistoyritysten toimintaedellytyksiä. Tavoitteenamme on, että yhä useampi suomalainen kasvuyritys ylittää kasvua rajoittavat esteet ja siirtyy kansainvälisille markkinoille.
Jäsenyys tarkoittaa
- kokemusta ja mentorointia liiketoiminnan ammattilaisilta
- apua liiketoiminnan kehittämiseen
- sparrausta kasvuun haasteiden voittamiseksi
- konkretiaa kansainvälistymisen käynnistämiseksi ja toteuttamiseksi
- mahdollisuuden ajatusten, näkemysten ja parhaiden käytäntöjen vaihtoon muiden yrittäjien kanssa
- verkostoja ja pääsyn oikeille oville
Join as member!
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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.
Thank You Sponsors
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer.
The Sun Startup Essentials program is specifically designed to help startups get their business off the ground FAST with the right IT infrastructure at the LOWEST COST possible. This program is available in many countries throughout the world. You can also go directly to your local country's Sun Startup Essentials program web page to learn more.
The Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Association is a non-aligned association for innovative, professional, growth-friven and entrepreneurial software business executives. Association drives the success of software business as an industry and supports individual software companies in their road to success.
Ohjelmistoyrittäjät ry on sitoutumaton, kasvuhakuisten ja yrittäjähenkisten ohjelmistoyritysten johdon yhteisö sekä ohjelmistoalan kehittäjä ja edunvalvoja Kehitämme kasvuhakuisten ohjelmistoyritysten toimintaedellytyksiä. Tavoitteenamme on, että yhä useampi suomalainen kasvuyritys ylittää kasvua rajoittavat esteet ja siirtyy kansainvälisille markkinoille.
Jäsenyys tarkoittaa
- kokemusta ja mentorointia liiketoiminnan ammattilaisilta
- apua liiketoiminnan kehittämiseen
- sparrausta kasvuun haasteiden voittamiseksi
- konkretiaa kansainvälistymisen käynnistämiseksi ja toteuttamiseksi
- mahdollisuuden ajatusten, näkemysten ja parhaiden käytäntöjen vaihtoon muiden yrittäjien kanssa
- verkostoja ja pääsyn oikeille oville
Join as member!
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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.
Thank You Sponsors
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer.
The Sun Startup Essentials program is specifically designed to help startups get their business off the ground FAST with the right IT infrastructure at the LOWEST COST possible. This program is available in many countries throughout the world. You can also go directly to your local country's Sun Startup Essentials program web page to learn more.
The Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Association is a non-aligned association for innovative, professional, growth-friven and entrepreneurial software business executives. Association drives the success of software business as an industry and supports individual software companies in their road to success.
Ohjelmistoyrittäjät ry on sitoutumaton, kasvuhakuisten ja yrittäjähenkisten ohjelmistoyritysten johdon yhteisö sekä ohjelmistoalan kehittäjä ja edunvalvoja Kehitämme kasvuhakuisten ohjelmistoyritysten toimintaedellytyksiä. Tavoitteenamme on, että yhä useampi suomalainen kasvuyritys ylittää kasvua rajoittavat esteet ja siirtyy kansainvälisille markkinoille.
Jäsenyys tarkoittaa
- kokemusta ja mentorointia liiketoiminnan ammattilaisilta
- apua liiketoiminnan kehittämiseen
- sparrausta kasvuun haasteiden voittamiseksi
- konkretiaa kansainvälistymisen käynnistämiseksi ja toteuttamiseksi
- mahdollisuuden ajatusten, näkemysten ja parhaiden käytäntöjen vaihtoon muiden yrittäjien kanssa
- verkostoja ja pääsyn oikeille oville
Join as member!
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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.
Thank You Sponsors
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer.
Invest Tech Finland 2009, 9.-10.6.2009, Helsinki, Finland
Great fortunes are made during tough times!
Invest Tech Finland 2009 is a venture capital event that brings together in Helsinki the very best young Finnish technology companies from pre-seed to growth stages, leading technology-focused venture capital and angel investors, public funding organizations, policy-makers and leading academic thinkers.
Check out the latest updates at: www.invest-tech.net
The Sun Startup Essentials program is specifically designed to help startups get their business off the ground FAST with the right IT infrastructure at the LOWEST COST possible. This program is available in many countries throughout the world. You can also go directly to your local country's Sun Startup Essentials program web page to learn more.
The Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Association is a non-aligned association for innovative, professional, growth-friven and entrepreneurial software business executives. Association drives the success of software business as an industry and supports individual software companies in their road to success.
Ohjelmistoyrittäjät ry on sitoutumaton, kasvuhakuisten ja yrittäjähenkisten ohjelmistoyritysten johdon yhteisö sekä ohjelmistoalan kehittäjä ja edunvalvoja Kehitämme kasvuhakuisten ohjelmistoyritysten toimintaedellytyksiä. Tavoitteenamme on, että yhä useampi suomalainen kasvuyritys ylittää kasvua rajoittavat esteet ja siirtyy kansainvälisille markkinoille.
Jäsenyys tarkoittaa
- kokemusta ja mentorointia liiketoiminnan ammattilaisilta
- apua liiketoiminnan kehittämiseen
- sparrausta kasvuun haasteiden voittamiseksi
- konkretiaa kansainvälistymisen käynnistämiseksi ja toteuttamiseksi
- mahdollisuuden ajatusten, näkemysten ja parhaiden käytäntöjen vaihtoon muiden yrittäjien kanssa
- verkostoja ja pääsyn oikeille oville
Join as member!
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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.
Thank You Sponsors
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer.
Invest Tech Finland 2009, 9.-10.6.2009, Helsinki, Finland
Great fortunes are made during tough times!
Invest Tech Finland 2009 is a venture capital event that brings together in Helsinki the very best young Finnish technology companies from pre-seed to growth stages, leading technology-focused venture capital and angel investors, public funding organizations, policy-makers and leading academic thinkers.
Check out the latest updates at: www.invest-tech.net
Korpi Consulting helps small and medium-sized clients to understand the principles and guide you through implementing an Environmental Management Systems (EMS) or acquiring an environmental label for your products. Korpi Consulting is dedicated to offer the best knowledge of the well-known EMS’s and labels: WWF Green Office, EMAS Easy, ISO 14001, EMAS. Unsure which is the most suitable EMS or label for your company?
They will come and visit your company, answer all your questions and help you choose the right label or system. Contact Korpi to arrange a meeting.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS OPEN STORAGE ROADSHOW, MAY 13-15TH
Sun Microsystems will be on the road next week to spread the word about Open Storage, a ground breaking and unique approach to storing data. The recently launched Sun Open Storage systems combine open-source software with industry-standard hardware, enabling you to reduce your reliance on high-priced systems and achieve significant savings on storage costs.
Come and join us at one of the breakfast seminars to hear more:
Oulu – Technopolis Smarthouse - May 13th
Jyväskylä – Boutique Hotel Yöpuu - May 14th
Tampere – Holiday Club Tampereen Kylpylä - May 15th
NOTE: Presentations will be held in Finnish!
More information and registration.
In case of any questions please contact Jonna.Tuovinen@sun.com.
More information on Sun's Open Storage systems is available at http://www.sun.com/storage/openstorage/
Don't forget our Sun Startup Essentials program! Please find out more about the program, and join now, it's totally free!
The Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Association is a non-aligned association for innovative, professional, growth-friven and entrepreneurial software business executives. Association drives the success of software business as an industry and supports individual software companies in their road to success.
Ohjelmistoyrittäjät ry on sitoutumaton, kasvuhakuisten ja yrittäjähenkisten ohjelmistoyritysten johdon yhteisö sekä ohjelmistoalan kehittäjä ja edunvalvoja Kehitämme kasvuhakuisten ohjelmistoyritysten toimintaedellytyksiä. Tavoitteenamme on, että yhä useampi suomalainen kasvuyritys ylittää kasvua rajoittavat esteet ja siirtyy kansainvälisille markkinoille.
Jäsenyys tarkoittaa
- kokemusta ja mentorointia liiketoiminnan ammattilaisilta
- apua liiketoiminnan kehittämiseen
- sparrausta kasvuun haasteiden voittamiseksi
- konkretiaa kansainvälistymisen käynnistämiseksi ja toteuttamiseksi
- mahdollisuuden ajatusten, näkemysten ja parhaiden käytäntöjen vaihtoon muiden yrittäjien kanssa
- verkostoja ja pääsyn oikeille oville
Join as a member!
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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.
Thank You Sponsors
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors where we let them describe what they have to offer.
Start-ups are in a unique position: Starting a new business gives them the possibility to be environmentally responsible from the start.
- Implementing a suitable environmental management system is easy; your spaces, equipment and courses of action can be designed environmentally friendly from the start. That means: no transitional period and immediate cost savings.
- Changes in EU environmental laws won't surprise you, as you're a step ahead, and you can watch others how they try to catch up hastily while you concentrate on your main task - doing business.
- Your image as an environmentally responsible business will be believable - after all you strived for environmentally friendly actions from the day you started your business.
- Environmental efficiency from the beginning can give your company an edge over its competitors, as well as demonstrating a high level of corporate responsibility, which may be attractive to potential customers and investors.
Korpi Consulting can tell you more about environmental management, and how it can benefit your company.
The Sun Startup Essentials program is specifically designed to help startups get their business off the ground FAST with the right IT infrastructure at the LOWEST COST possible. This program is available in many countries throughout the world. You can also go directly to your local country's Sun Startup Essentials program web page to learn more.
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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.
Thank You Sponsors
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors where we let them describe what they have to offer.
Start-ups are in a unique position: Starting a new business gives them the possibility to be environmentally responsible from the start.
- Implementing a suitable environmental management system is easy; your spaces, equipment and courses of action can be designed environmentally friendly from the start. That means: no transitional period and immediate cost savings.
- Changes in EU environmental laws won't surprise you, as you're a step ahead, and you can watch others how they try to catch up hastily while you concentrate on your main task - doing business.
- Your image as an environmentally responsible business will be believable - after all you strived for environmentally friendly actions from the day you started your business.
- Environmental efficiency from the beginning can give your company an edge over its competitors, as well as demonstrating a high level of corporate responsibility, which may be attractive to potential customers and investors.
Korpi Consulting can tell you more about environmental management, and how it can benefit your company.
The Sun Startup Essentials program is specifically designed to help startups get their business off the ground FAST with the right IT infrastructure at the LOWEST COST possible. This program is available in many countries throughout the world. You can also go directly to your local country's Sun Startup Essentials program web page to learn more.
Update 17.4.: You can meet the good people at Sun also at the Startup Developers Gathering.
The next SDG will be about JavaFX! It is held in the usual place Korjaamo on 21st April starting at 7pm. The concept in short is beer, technology and networking. It is an honor to have Terrence Bar from Sun Microsystems to introduce us to this long waited technology. Terrence is a Senior Technologist at Sun Microsystems and Ambassador of the Java Mobile & Embedded Community. He has 15+ years of industry experience with more than 10 of those years at Sun.
The event is free of charge, just register at Facebook here.
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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.
Thank You Sponsors
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors who help us keep the wheels rolling.
Korpi Consulting helps small and medium-sized clients to understand the principles and guide you through implementing an Environmental Management Systems (EMS) or acquiring an environmental label for your products. Korpi Consulting is dedicated to offer the best knowledge of the well-known EMS's and labels: WWF Green Office, EMAS Easy, ISO 14001, EMAS. Unsure which is the most suitable EMS or label for your company? They will come and visit your company, help you choose the right one and answer all your questions - free of charge. Contact Korpi to arrange a meeting.
The Sun Startup Essentials program is specifically designed to help startups get their business off the ground FAST with the right IT infrastructure at the LOWEST COST possible. This program is available in many countries throughout the world. You can also go directly to your local country's Sun Startup Essentials program web page to learn more.
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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.
Sun Microsystems Open Storage - Save On Storage Costs
The recently launched Sun Open Storage systems combine open-source software with industry-standard hardware, enabling you to reduce your reliance on high-priced systems and achieve significant savings on storage costs. Sun is holding a breakfast seminar in Espoo to tell more about this ground breaking and unique approach to storing data.
The informative breafast takes place on
Wednesday March 4th 2009 at 8.30-12.00
at Stella Business Park, Stella Terra, Auditorio Corona
(address Lars Sonckin kaari 16, 02600 Espoo)
AGENDA
8.30-9.00 Registration and breakfast
9.00-9.45 Significant changes in the cost structure of storage through utilization of open architecture
Timo Danilotschkin, Director, Storage,Sun Microsystems Nordics
9.45-10.00 Break
10.00-11.00 Open storage technologies and solutions
Pasi Haatanen, Product Manager, Sun Microsystems Finland
11.00-11.30 Demo and discussion
Pasi Haatanen, Product Manager, Sun Microsystems Finland
NOTE: Presentations will be held in Finnish!
You can register for the event here.
According the the company, the recent launch has sparked some previously unseen excitement in Sun's partners and customers. Here's what Sun's CEO Jonathan Swartz said about it:
[.]..high-performance Open Storage appliances, are quite possibly the
hottest products Sun has ever produced. In fact, in three to five years
Sun may be better known for storage than it is for servers.
The comments on our blogs have also been very exciting:
Bryan, I not only work for a competitor you are going after but I also
worked in Solaris in a previous life. Somehow I guess I bleed purple!
Lets just say that the SEs here are running scared as in head-to-head
deal after deal, you guys are coming in at half our discounted price!
The only 'defense' against this project and the 7000 series machines is
to try to point potential customers to Sun's stock price, its prospects,
FUD about Sun being bought over, no reference customers, etc. In other
words, Fishworks seems to be impossible to defend on merit...
Sun will hold events similar to the one taking place in Espoo on March 4th in the Baltic states as well: March 10th in Vilnius, March 11th in Riga and March 12th inTallinn. For more information on the events or in case of any questions please contact Jonna.Tuovinen [at] sun.com More information on Sun's Open Storage systems is available at here.
Also, don't forget Sun's Startup Essentials program! Please find out more about the program here. It's totally free – and for a limited time only each new member will get an invitation to join Spotify – also our SSE program member. Rock on!
Disclaimer: Sun Microsystems is ArcticStartup’s Sponsor for February.
Sun MicroSystems' Breakfast Seminar On Web 2.0
Sun MicroSystems is holding a breakfast seminar in Klaus K Ahjo club in Helsinki on Thursday, 5th February. The focus of the event is on Web 2.0. and Sun has brought along an expert to lead the discussion, Bob Sokolin (CTO, Web 2.0 Industry Practice, Sun Microsystems).
Sun claims that "five out of the five fastest growing social networking sites 
are running on Sun technology." A bold claim to which the breakfast seminar is going to shed some light on and elaborate on the possibilities and customized solutions that Sun offers for companies that work around the area. We'll be there for sure and hope to see you there too. You can find more information on the topic here.
Time: Thursday 5.2.2009 at 8:30 - 11:00 Location: Klaus K, Ahjo Club, Bulevardi 2-4, 00120 Helsinki
AGENDA
8:30-9:00 Registration and breakfast
9:00-10:00 Powering the Web 2.0 experience
Bob Sokol, CTO, Web 2.0 Industry Practice, Sun Microsystems
10:00-11:00 Discussion about the morning's topic and networking
Registration and more info on the event, email Jonna at jonna.tuovinen [at] sun.com
Disclaimer: Sun Microsystems is ArcticStartup's Sponsor for February.
Photo by Or Hiltch (BY:CC)
ArcticStartup Signs Sponsorship With Nodeta
We have signed a sponsorship deal with Nodeta, a Finnish hosting company. With this deal, we were able to move our hosting over to the Nordics and thus dramatically speed up the service for the people in Europe.
Nodeta will also be our partner with regards to the future services we'll be rolling out so a big thanks to the guys at Nodeta. They've been very helpful with us from the start and offered top notch service, something that you can't get from too many places nowadays. So if you're in need of quality hosting for an affordable price - make sure you ask Nodeta for a quotation.
