The Slush Startup Conference takes place every year in mid-winter in Helsinki and is a large gathering of startups, investors and enthusiasts. Furthermore, it is a key factor in the Finnish tech startup ecosystem.Why it matters: Despite being a country with fewer than 6 million inhabitants, Finland surpasses others in More

This virtual gathering will bring together entrepreneurship educators from virtually the world who are putting Lean Innovation to work in their classrooms, accelerators, venture studios, and student-driven ventures.The summit topic is “Education and Innovation in the Age of Chaos and Disruption.”Our students will be facing the challenges of a world More

A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the municipality where their merchantry is – or else they’ll never scale.I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student, just off a red-eye flight from New York. She’s built a 65-person startup selling enterprise software to the financial services More

Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops to a quantum technology visitor offered insightful career transition translating for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were workable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector.Below is the More

This post previously appeared in the Harvard Merchantry Review.Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching More

This vendible previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange.Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue growth than those that are solely remote.Let the discussion begin.During the pandemic, companies engaged in one of the largest unintended More