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It’s thursday again so you know what’s up – it’s time for yet another entrepreneur profile. This profile marks the end of entrepreneur profiles for this spring. It’s been a truly fun run; in addition to meeting a great set of entrepreneurs, i believe it’s been beneficial to readers and ourselves to get a small glimpse into the lives and mindsets of entrepreneurs. We’ve had 10 great ones so far, ranging from established startups such as Kiosked, to smaller one-man consultancies as ProTalk. We’ll be further developing the concept for the autumn in order to offer even more valuable content. This time we have an established clothing company, Schoffa, founded by an ex-hanken student Joen Schauman. The endeavour began in … Read more

It’s that time of the week again! This time we have Maaretta Tukiainen of Vojo, who also had a very interesting talk at our Startup Sisters event. This will be our second to last profile this spring, but we will be back in the autumn with some new stuff. Maaretta Tukiainen: Maaretta couldn’t be pictured by the HankenEs team as she is currently in Amsterdam. Tell us a bit about yourself; how did you end up co-founding Vojo? I have a background in various media in content creation and development positions. I resigned form the position of Director of Programs at Sub, the commercial TV station in Dec 2010. Before resigning I had already founded a company of my own, … Read more

It’s thursday again so you know what’s up. This week we have Anders Holm of ProTalk, which is a swedish language consultancy differentiating itself from the norms of the industry. I met with Anders for lunch, and i quickly understood why his business plan appeals busy businessmen/women in Finland; it is so much easier and natural to learn a foreign language in a natural situation, compared with the dull classroom setting. And Anders is natural at what he does, he is a great person with an extroverted personality, which surely pushes his clients to new levels when it comes to learning a language. A quick side-note: after this entrepreneur profile, we will only have two left so the board members of … Read more

This week we have an entrepreneur who decided to leave his corporate career in order to start something of his own: Niko Karstikko, the co-founder of Sportsetter. They where in the news last week, as they managed to secure a 400 000€ investment from an angel investor. Therefore, we feel the timing could not be better for a entrepreneur profile. I met with Niko last week at their office in Hernesaari, and what was planned to be a 30min discussion and photoshoot turned into a 2h discussion. His story is truly interesting, and he is a fantastic guy. His road to entrepreneurial endeavours are quite unique, as he has worked abroad in companies such as NetJets, Merrill Lynch, Metso, 3M, and Barclays Bank. … Read more

This week we have another interesting entrepreneur, who is determined to change the industry of furniture: Joel Roos of One Nordic Furniture Company. Their idea is simple: produce high quality, timeless and beautiful pieces of furniture that are very easy to put together, but arrive in small packages. This way, they can decrease their carbon footprint by being able to ship more products in a fixed space, but still are so easy to set up that your grandmother won’t have a problem. Also, they use several interesting new solutions and techniques to help the consumer, such as an augmented reality app, so one can easily check if the Hai chair, for example, fits in your living room. Joel Roos, of … Read more

It’s that time of the week again! This time, we have a very interesting serial entrepreneur, Yakir Falik of Fajoya, as our person under the spotlight. Fajoya is a new interesting smartphone app, which according to Falik ”lets you request receive and reward your friends for help”. He continues, that their vision is to unleash the goodwill concealed in people social networks. The team is a perfect example of how the internet facilitates potential cross-border ventures, as they have a Canadian, a Finn, and and Israeli person on board. The idea was co-founded by Falik in october 2012. Our sixth entrepreneur profile follow, Yakir Falik of Fajoya: Yakir couldn’t be photographed by the HankenEs team, as he is currently in Israel … Read more

HES – Kick starting 2013!   Hey Friends! As from today, I will be your HES – eyes & ears, sending you a monthly newsletter on the latest updates from the HES – community. Upcoming events: We now have four upcoming events in April which you definitely should look into.   HES meet-up: Team-building and Speed-dating (11.4.) During the evening, Ola Sundell – Lean entrepreneur and Coach, will speak about team-building, and afterwards you have the possibility to network with other like-minded persons, accompanied with a glass of wine, during entrepreneurship speed-dating. The event is held @ Legenda 11th of April between 18:00 and 19:30.   Aaltoes & HES: Entrepreneurship Breakfast (17.4.)  Free-breakfast! During the breakfast, Simpli shares their story on how they conquered … Read more

  HankenEs is arranging a trip to Stockholm Startup Day in April, and wants to invite entrepreneurs from Hanken to join!   Do you have your own company? Or maybe a great idea for a company? Or have you considered becoming an entrepreneur after being done with school? This is your chance to widen your perspective, and join the HankenEs team for a weekend in Stockholm. We are really looking forward to seeing what is in on the other side of the ocean, and network with entrepreneurs, financers, or simply interesting people at the biggest startup event of the Nordic countries. You will find the agenda here. http://www.startupday.se/programme. Our mission is to aid to-be entrepreneurs from Hanken. Therefore, HankenEs will … Read more

It’s once again that time of the week: Entrepreneur profiles! This week we have a firm from the other spectrum of goods & services, namely Nuotio Clothing. A startup firm producing ready-to-wear garments in southern Finland, Nuotio was founded by five young students, four of whom are Hanken students, and one who is studying to be a tailor. This tailor student, Jens Beck, is our entrepreneur profile for the week. The profile follows: Jens Beck, photographed in downtown Helsinki.   Tell us a bit about Nuotio Clothing. How did you guys start, and what is your aim? We all had long wanted to do something of our own, so one day we just decided to do something together. It felt quite natural, … Read more

Once again it is time to kickstart the activities of HankenEs for the year 2013! To begin with, we want to introduce and present the different individuals and roles within the new board, and highlight a few goals that we have set for the forthcoming year.   As before, our key mission is to make entrepreneurial endeavors a core activity within the students of Hanken. In a nutshell, we aim to provide the tools and contacts needed to realize an idea into reality.   In essence, we are here to help.   The following will provide short insights into who “we” are, and encourage all of you to partake in this omnipresent movement.   Kim Lehmusvuori / Chairman of the … Read more

Last thursday (7.2.2013) HankenEs participated in the student organization fair, and held the Kick-off event of 2013 at Legenda (downstairs bar at Casa). Needless to say, both events were a success and very much fun. At the kårmässan (student organisation fair) we organized an Angry Birds competition, where competitors fought fiercely to beat the score high-score. We had a lot of participants, and eventually the top three scores were in a 500 point margin, so it became very tight. The happy winner was Emil Jansson, who won two tickets to the theater named Kungen, a satirical play shown at “Lilla Teatern”. We naturally invited all participants to join the Kick-off later on, where small snacks & drinks were served. The kick-off itself was from … Read more

This week we will be kicking off a new feature on our blog: Entrepreneur profiles. In essence, we will publish a short profile on interesting entrepreneurs weekly (always coming out on thursdays), with a few relevant questions in regard to their career choice. First up is a good friend of ours, Niklas Schröder, who has co-founded Milk + Chocolate, which delivers world class web designs and layouts. Their previous clients have included Hackmann, Lundia, and Kanniston Leipomo. They have also designed the HankenEs visual identity and webpage. Without further ado, here is our first entrepreneur profile: Niklas Schröder, co-founder of Milk + Chocolate. Tell us a bit about Milk+Chocolate Milk+Chocolate is a digital agency delivering world class digital experiences to … Read more

It’s Thursday again, so here is our weekly entrepreneur profile. This week we have one of Hanken’s own entrepreneurs, Joel Löv, who has co-founded the Breakit app. Originally they partook in the latest “summer of startups”, the startup accelerator program organized at Aaltoes, which ended up being very useful for the team behind Breakit. The app has been up and running at the iOS app store for about a week, and we at HankenEs are excited about the future of this cool app. You can get the app here. Our second entrepreneur profile: Joel Löv from Breakit, photographed at the Startup Sauna in Otaniemi: How did you end up co-founding the Breakit app? Was developing an app something that you’ve … Read more

It’s time for our next entrepreneur profile! This time we have Micke Paqvalen from Kiosked, which is a truly exciting startup dealing with e-commerce. The profile follows: Tell us a bit about Kiosked Kiosked is a leading platform enabling Smart Content™. Kiosked turns any online content, images, videos and applications into interactive and viral storefronts. It is beneficial for consumers, brands and publishers alike. Kiosked enables brands to turn their content into storefronts and engage directly with their fans everywhere. Publishers can monetize the impulses they generate through Kiosked content as they get a 50% revenue share. Kiosked makes it fun and rewarding for consumers to discover and share any online content. Through kiosks anyone can buy, want and get … Read more

It’s thursday again, so here is our weekly entrepreneur profile. This time, we’ve got Kenneth Salonius from Framgo, which is an exciting startup revolving around the idea of simply, yet efficiently, improving one’s health with the help of an app. Kenneth actually just won the Anders Wall stipendium yesterday, so it’s quite a relevant post in numerous ways. Without further ado, the quick questionnaire from Kenneth: Kenneth Salonius and Riku Lehtomäki (founders of Framgo, Kenneth on the right) pictured at their workspace in Otaniemi.    Tell us a little bit about Framgo. Framgo is a mobile health start-up company. In a nutshell, we want to give people the right tools for understanding and improving their health and wellbeing. We started in 2011 … Read more

This blogpost will quickly highlight the very cool events we have this week. We are organizing two large-scale events, and will be leaving for Stockholm in the weekend to come. Startup Sisters (16.4. 18:00): We welcome all ladies to join the Startup Sisters event at Casa this tuesday 18.00, so tomorrow! The idea is to have female speakers and a female audience discuss entrepreneurship. And perhaps even have a glass of bubbly. Our speakers are Catharina Stackelberg, founder of Marketing Clinic, and Maaretta Tukiainen co-founder of Vojo. So, there will surely be interesting insights into the concept of female entrepreneurship! All ladies are welcome, and even men if accompanied by a female! Hope to see you there!! Find the facebook … Read more