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The Nordic Growth ShowUnderstanding The Role of Mindset in Entrepreneurship with Tristan WrightIn this episode, we were joined by Tristan Wright, the founder of Evolve to Grow, all the way from Australia! What an insightful, inspiring, and invigorating talk we had! Tristan achieved his dreams at a very young age - a 7-figure thriving business, marriage - just to lose it all a couple of years later. But as it is with the entrepreneurial spirits - these hurdles didn't stop him. We talked with Tristan about how to learn from failures in life and use it to your advantage, about the difference between what drives entrepreneurs and how that might affect...2020-08-0830 min
The Nordic Growth ShowUnderstanding Attribution Models and The Buyer's Journey in B2B Marketing With Steffen HedebrandtThis podcast episode is all about B2B attribution and entrepreneurship! We were lucky enough to have one of the co-founders of Dreamdata.io – Steffen Hedebrandt – join us for a talk and share his insights on the significance of understanding the B2B sales journey and the challenges we all encounter in marketing analytics. Steffen also shared his journey from having established a successful track record of scaling the businesses and building teams at Upwork and Airtame as the Head of Marketing to embarking on the entrepreneurship and founding Dreamdata. So, tune in if you’re ready to hear an ins...2020-03-3041 minThe Nordic Growth ShowSuperApp as a Service Model for Tailored Mobile Apps With Arttu HujanenThis time our guest is Arttu Hujanen – the CEO and Sales Director of SuperApp. In our conversation, we discuss how he found his way to entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship scene in Finland - how it’s changed throughout the years and where it’s heading. Arttu also shares his tips on how to manage time more efficiently, what it takes to be good at sales, and explains how they’ve adapted these values at SuperApp (pssst find out about their innovative way to recruitment). Last but not least – Arttu’s passion for sales – having lived in Germany and Hong Kong, Arttu de...2020-03-0639 minThe Nordic Growth ShowUnderstanding IoT and Its Advantages for Our Life in the Future with Ilya SokolovInformative, interesting, and real is what we think of our conversation with Ilya Sokolov, the CEO and co-founder of Connax. In this episode, we dive into the topic of Internet of Things (IoT), PSD2 and digital identity. Ilya also shares his journey on establishing Connax, the company that connects IoT and the world of payments, what it takes to be a serial entrepreneur and the challenges he had to overcome to be where he is today. So get ready to learn more about all of the above and find out what advice Ilya has for future startup founders!
2020-02-2750 minThe Nordic Growth ShowDiscussing the Reality of Women in Tech Startups with Caritta SeppäWe sat down with Caritta, the COO and co-founder of Tespack, to talk about what it takes to start your own company in a tech field as a woman, how to receive the attention you need to present your company, and how to not let your background define you. Caritta also shared insights about her recent trip to Costa Rica and why she believes it’s the hidden tech gem. We also touched upon Tespack’s future plans and why diversity matters. Last but not least, Caritta emphasizes the importance of “giving back to the community”, shares her tips and tric...2020-02-1755 minThe Nordic Growth ShowRecruiting Autistic Employees and Recruitment Processes with Alena & SlavaWe sat down with Alena and Slava from Kallkod to talk about the recruitment processes, the need to help autistic people to find a job that fits them perfectly and what to do to get a job within a month! Yes, you read it right; it is possible. They told us their journey of Kallkod and what is their future going to look like. Get the freshest insight into the recruitment company that is best of what they do - finding people for top IT companies and how they will be helping autistic people to enter the workforce.
2019-12-0353 minThe Nordic Growth ShowTransforming Heat Poles into Electric Vehicles Outlet & Startup Story with Jiri RäsänenElectric cars have already existed for more than 100 years!? Yes, you read it right. That's a fact we learnt from Jiri Räsänen during our conversation in this episode. Jiri told us so much about history of electric vehicles, building a startup with shoes string funding, his opinion on "innovative ideas" and so much more. He shared with us his fascinating learning journey from being a social worker to a CEO of a startup in electric vehicle charging. Tune in to learn more about Jiri and his startup journey with Parking Energy.
Key takeaways:
Long histo...2019-11-2656 minThe Nordic Growth ShowMario's Journey Building Tespack: Tips and Tricks on Getting InvestmentWe're thrilled to have Mario Aguilera - Founder of Tespack on our show this time. We sat down and talked about his journey of building Tespack from point A: inspiration, steps to take before manufacturing, getting investments and more! Spoiler alert: stay until the end to find out what Mario wishes he would have known before launching his company.
Key takeaways:
- If you're a founder, your efforts have to be all-in towards your company, otherwise it will never work out.
- The interesting part about startup is constantly failing and learning.
- Get...2019-11-181h 00The Nordic Growth ShowHow to Use Networking to Grow Your Startup with Joonas TomperiYou probably heard about Finnish culture and their unique way of doing things. How about taking a closer look into it with a Finnish entrepreneur who has been through the startup processes, create different companies in Finland, and been through all the challenges of a tech startup. In today's episode, Joonas will share his own experience about networking and the startup ecosystem in Finland. You will get useful insights together with practical tips. We believe that you can apply those tips to your own companies when searching for new clients or recruiting new people to your team.
...2019-10-0234 minThe Nordic Growth ShowTomi Kaukinen's Story on Overcoming BurnoutJoin with us in the Nordic Growth Show this time is Tomi Kaukinen. He is a serial entrepreneur whose life changed when he fell into severe burnout during the scaling of his company. He left everything and had to reorganize his life. Today he is a keynote speaker and start-up mentor. His main topics are motivational and the importance of failure but also how depression and burnout are serious problems in work life.
Burnout has been an emerging issue among startup founders recently. Not only his story of being a serial entrepreneur but also how he got...2019-09-251h 15The Nordic Growth ShowWomen In Nordic Startups with Natalia RincónOn this episode, we are honored to have Natalia Rincón, CEO and Founder of CHAOS to discuss about being a female founder in male-dominant industries namely Information Technology, Construction and Real Estate. She dedicates her free time to the Green Party, where She serves as a deputy councilor in Tampere and as a member in several urban planning boards.
Despite working in the male-dominant industries, Natalia has not experienced any negative encounters. But she recognized several similarities and differences between male and female when it comes to: traits of personality, pitching to investors and personal life. ...2019-09-0932 minThe Nordic Growth ShowHow To Build A Startup Team And The Working Culture From Leadoo FounderOn this episode, we are honored to welcome Mikael da Costa, Founder of Leadoo. Leadoo is one of the most promising Martech companies in Finland, Mikael and his team have been able to bootstrap the company and reach 1m€ turnover and over 300 customers in less than a year.
Together with our host Jessica, he disclosed his secrets behind the success of Leadoo on this episode are from how he treats his customers to his employees. He believes that with determination you can achieve anything, and he has an interesting story about him writing a book “The Startup Warrior” within...2019-08-1834 minThe Nordic Growth ShowEntrepreneurship in Art Industry and Tatinis Art Fair in Helsinki with Ruby GupteOn this episode, we welcome Ruby Gupte to our show, she is the founder and CEO of Tatinis.com, a website that provides quality arts at affordable prices. We talked about her career journey from the beginning to having an established business in the art industry.
Different from our previous episode, today we dive into the art industry with Ruby’s insights. With her unique approach to sell art “at an affordable price”, Ruby wants to emphasize her company’s ideology that “Art is for everyone”. Moreover, she also discussed about the differences of their strategy between Finni...2019-08-1226 minThe Nordic Growth ShowStrategy to Outsource Sales and Marketing for Tech Startups with Henri TikkanenOn this episode, we have Henri Tikkanen, CEO and Smartbound Specialist of Adeptus. Adeptus is a Finnish Growth company that strongly believes in the power of the attitude, emotional intelligence and understanding efficiency in sales. They want to engage our clients to contact new customers and/or outsource it, and train salespeople and managers to become better people experts, talkers and problem solvers both in operational and strategic levels.
Henri discussed with us the "Guide to modern & strategic sales and marketing outsourcing", with his experience working in the field, he pointed out a few ke...2019-08-0542 min
The Nordic Growth ShowHow to Improve Your Inbound Marketing with Antti Pietilä- Founder of Loyalistic and Finnish SaaS ClubThis episode, we are honored to have a talk with Antti Pietilä, founder of Loyalistic, which is a highly efficient marketing automation software for SMEs. He also holds important roles at Finnish Software Entrepreneurs, as a long-time board member, founder and the chairman of SaaS club.
With his wide knowledge and experience in the field, Antti discusses the importance of inbound content marketing and hands-on strategies to grow your business from local to global by using content marketing and different types of content that works. We also chat about the growing trend of B2B marketing o...2019-07-2145 min
The Nordic Growth ShowStartup Story: The Founding Story of Choicely with Kaius MeskanenDespite not starting out in the tech scene, Kaius eventually decided to take the reigns over his startup dreams. In this episode we’ll be learning more about how Kaius overcame the challenges involved in building an app without any previous background in tech. He also will share his take on how he founded the perfect team to help guide his vision in product management at Choicely.
The best places to follow Kaius and Choicely stories are:
Choicely FB page: https://www.facebook.com/Choicelyapp/
Kaius's personal Linked:in page: https://www.linkedin.com/in...2019-07-0121 min