April 2010
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Getting back home
Our trip in New York is on it’s last hours. We’ve enjoyed the city and got the mobile office working quite well, too. Yesterday we got our flights rebooked to Lufthansa and we’re returning home on Saturday.
These days stranded in New York had us thinking about the world in the sense of mobile working and expanding our business abroad. We have been networking and doing the...
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Square will revolutionize the way small businesses...
In the 99% conference we had the possibility to see Square in action. Square is a new venture by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter. It makes credit card payments possible with iPhones and iPads in a convenient way. The real catch is that there is no contracts or monthly payments. You just pay a fee of the payments you accept.
The service also has an interface for the shopkeeper, in which you...
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Invited Scott Belsky to Finland
We met Scott Belsky, the founder and CEO of Behance, in the 99% conference. He and his company have been doing great job in organizing the creative world. Their web community, products along 99% think tank and conference are getting the creative world more networked and getting more things done.
Scott published his book, Making Ideas Happen (which by the way is great), a week ago. He has done...
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Visiting IDEO New York
We had the pleasure to visit one of the most influential creative companies in the world, IDEO. The company has been working with such innovations as the original Apple’s computer mouse and Bank of America’s Keep the change.
Our host was the gifted designer Ellen Sitkin who introduced the company and their New York premises to us.
Key learnings from IDEO
Design is all about...
Necessity 1: Wireless network and electricity
We work mainly with our laptops and communicate all the time. The number one necessity in our mobile office is definately the wireless network and a possibility to recharge your laptop while working.
Today, we spent quite a lot of time finding a good hotel that could provide us with this necessity. We ended up finding the Pod Hotel in Eastern 51st Street in Manhattan. This hotel has a lobby with...
Time and place - does it matter?
We have been thinking a lot about the concepts of time and place related to our work lately. We are a Helsinki based company but we are young people with a drive to see the world and get inspired by cities and people around the globe.
Our work is done pretty much with computers and our minds. Yes, we do meet our customers quite often, brainstorm together and have put a lot of time and effort in...
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Our press release in Finnish
Nuoret yrittäjät perustivat väliaikaisen sivukonttorin New Yorkiin tulivuorenpurkauksen takia
Lentoliikenne on saanut miljoonat ihmiset perumaan matkasuunnitelmiansa ja ruuhkauttamaan lentoyhtiöiden puhelinlinjat. Nuoret helsinkiläisyrittäjät päättivät kuitenkin käyttää tilannetta hyödykseen ja perustivat yritykselleen väliaikaisen sivukonttorin New Yorkiin.
Bolder Helsingin perustajajäsenet...
