Scandinavian ABC Open

Ääkköset, a Scandinavian ABC company, has Open doors every Tuesday 12:00 onwards in the Kielo premises. You are welcome to drop by! Sometimes we join forces and arrange events together with Kielo.

If you can't stop by, you can follow Scandinavian ABC companies online:

Scandinavian ABC collective:
- This page - a journal from Scandinavian ABC Open sessions.
- Twitter - aggregates tweets from individuals working in Scandinavian ABC ecosystem. Also, announces things sometimes.
- Reddit - our reading list for orienting ourselves.
- Medium blogs by the Scandinavian ABC companies and individuals
Companies themselves:
- Ääkköset Oy web pages - Ääkköset Oy accelerates Scandinavian ABC companies.
- Cyblem Oy web pages -
- HowNetWorks in Twitter
- HowNetWorks blog
- HowNetWorks in GitHub
- SensorFu web pages
- SensorFu in Twitter

2017-05-22 - Koodikärpät visit

2017-04-25

@ronchaine had returned from his around-the-world trip and was intrigued by the prospect of running a startup testdrive

2017-04-11

@whiteeyedoll stopped by to chat about various topics, from modernizing IT-systems to perks of modern Linux desktops. SampleCloud, Google App Engine.

2017-04-04

@tvaisanen visited and dreamed about a collaborative dependency mapping tool for critical organistions.

2017-02-21 - SensorFu External Collaboration

SensorFu has structured their development plans and are now looking at what will be build in-house, and for can be outsourced.

Jesse and Jani from http://remod.fi visited us.
@turmi0 introduced the idea of SensorFu.
Jesse@Remod and Jani@Remod envisioned a gateway-drug for the SensorFu product, as well as talked about different product ideas.
Sami@Kielo dropped by to plan Vulmeet and mentioned new investor connections. Jesse@Remod tipped off about the latest trend: Investor One Pagers. We were immediately attracted to the idea.

2017-01-31 - SensorFu Kickstart

SensorFu workshop. Kickstarting the R&D. @Turmi0 from SensorFu recapped alternative tech-paths. @oherrala provided details and opinions. We ruthlessly picked @ecode's brains as he made the mistake of visiting us. @evilon and @fenris messed up the whiteboards and asked a lot of questions.

We reflected the implications of different technical choices to collaboration:
- in-house development,
- collaboration with scanabc companies, and
- collaboration with scanabc partners (F-Solutions, Remod, etc...)
Sales vectors. Positioning SensorFu tech:
- Simplified: "I get this problem, and easy to jump on-board"
- Positioning through long term vision - longer term work as the customers have not planned purchases on such product.
- Familiar: piggybacking with marketing $$$ from others, but get distracted with unaligned feature parity requests.
Killed a hefty amount of alternatives for now, zeroing in on an MVP.

2016-11-03

Kielo arranged a failure-themed Tuesday.

Ari Takanen from Kielo opened the session by listing the typical startup challenges
@evilon from Ääkköset Oy enjoyed a lot talking about his failures in life and work.
Mikko from Sonolux spoke about how to burn money to build perfectly built loudspeakers and how he dealt with the failures before pivoting for something commercially viable.
Mika Ruostesuo from Ruostesuo Consulting gave a simple message in his talk: if you haven't failed, you haven't tried hard enough.

Later the day we gathered together with the HowNetWorks crew to plan an awareness campaign about URI:teller.

2016-10-04

Ääkköset and Kielo arranged a joint Open session at Teknologiatie 18 (video)

@evilon from Ääkköset Oy introduced OUSPG Open
Christian Wieser from Radai talked about Fablab and Radai Oy
Juha Keränen from SUPER GOD invigorated vivid discussion about building social media following and building a game fanbase.
Sakari Sanaksenaho from Sparta Consulting talked about how Sparta became the rebel consultant shop with money-back guarantee.

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