The Biggest challenge to implement a Business Idea

Please check answers on this Question in LinkedIn

Have a look on results of voting in the Poll and vote by Yourself:

Great day and Success!

Eurovision 2009

One of the Best:

The Art of listening, learning and sharing

Enjoy this Flower! Have a nice spring and 1st of May!

The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas

Would You like to explore other country by staying at private home?

FinRusGateway is currently working on the new web-service Trip2Home.
The purpose of this project is match-making Traveler and Home Provider.

Check this Poll dedicated to the project, its fun!

Dream your dream!

Please check this inspiring video of the Finnish designer and entrepreneur Anu Pentik.
Her dream came as true, she made studio to manufacture personalized design items.
Video sound is in Finnish and text in English.

I would like to congratulate all women at international women day 8.3.!
Have a nice day!

BRIC: Emerging Mobile Markets

• The BRIC mobile user base is expected to rise from 1.209 billion in 2008 to 1.644 billion in 2013*
• Between 2001 and the end of 2007 BRIC countries were responsible for 660 million new subscibers
  
• Between July 2007 and July 2008 India saw a mobile subscriber increase of 100 Million
• BRIC operator-billed data revenues are projected to increase from $26.2 billion in 2008 to more than $48.3 billion by 2013*.
  

While many mobile markets around the world have slowed considerably, BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) mobile markets are growing at a phenomenal rate. These countries offer enormous opportunity for operators, manufacturers, content providers, software developers and numerous others in the value chain.

* Juniper Research - BRIC Mobile Opportunities Oct. 2008

Thai Lemongrass Soup

Kerry Gleason's best thing for the weekend is to make something that creates a pleasant aroma throughout the house that you can enjoy for several hearty meals. He suggests a Thai Lemongrass Soup.

4 c chicken stock
4 c water
6 tsp Tom Yum paste, from Asian market or gourmet section
diced carrots
diced onions or scallions
thick-sliced green bell pepper
1 tbs. chopped ginger root
red pepper flakes (optional)
2 tbs. salt
1/2 cup shredded chicken or diced shrimp
1 tsp chopped basil

You can add chopped lemongrass, if you've got it, but the soup will stand on its own with just the paste. The aroma is awesome, and the soup is full of vitamins.

Season Greatings

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009!

Janne and Tatjana

What should older generation teach to younger generation?

I asked in LinkedIn people to answer to the above question and share their comments and thoughts. I got 32 answers, pretty many.

I decided to choose answer by Kay Wallace as best aswer:

"I believe we need to teach family history with our ancestors trials and tribulations. Honesty, integrity, values and respect have become part of our history instead of part of our future. I try to teach my children the value of self worth through hard work and loyalty. Teach them to give instead of take."

Thanks Kay, it was a good answer!

Exiting boxing match

Exiting boxing match was held in Helsinki Hartwall Areena on last Friday.

Famous Finnish boxer, Amin Asikainen and an Armenian in origin with German citizenship, Khoren Gevor
met each other for the gaining a title of European champion.

The difference in the techniques between these two guys was obvious: beside of high technical skills and very dynamic mode Khoren showed of high
intelligence using strategy and tactics to protect himself and attack in the right moments .

These qualities lead him to win- situation at the 7th round ( out of 10).

Please enjoy the video with the boxing!

Top 100 Best European Software vendors

The latest version of the Truffle 100, the leading ranking of the top 100 software vendors in Europe, has been published. German SAP ranks first.

Total revenues for the Truffle 100 are 29 billion euros and revenues from software activity are 24,4 billion euros. The top 25 vendors account for 80 % of the revenues.

From Finnish companies Digia ranks 38th, F-Secure 41st, Comptel 45th, Aldata Solution 48th, Basware 51st, Proha 70th and Tekla 74th.

Innovations ahead

There are lot of innovations ahead says Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in this video clip.
Enjoy!

Successful Domino

Check from this video amazing domino efects. Enjoy!

What is preventing companies from becoming International?

You can contribute to my Poll in LinkedIn: What is preventing companies from becoming International?


Thanks!

Enjoy!

Executive Summary for Investor Search

The Executive Summary has been designed by BIG in cooperation with FinRusGateway

The idea of the Summary is to help Entrepreneur to make a first step for implementing his Idea into the Reality. Please feel free to use the Summary via searching for Investor.



Thanks and Good Luck!

LinkedIn Applications, new way to utilize LI network

LinkedIn has introduced new applications, which are very useful way to utilize network:

Company Buzz made me to register also to Twitter. Twitter is tool to share “What you are doing?”. Company Buzz is collecting from Twitter stream everything what is dedicated to your interests and company activities.

BlogLink is showing all blog items of your network. It’s very interesting to follow what other people in your network are writing.

MyTravel is allowing to share your upcoming trips with other networkers or people in your network. You can check if anyone is going to same place at the same time. You can book meeting with persons you already know, but earlier you didn’t know that you are traveling to same place.

LinkedIn Polls is giving opportunity to ask anything from your network. It’s showing statistics of answerers and people background. It’s very easy to use and you can share results with other people in your blog.

Amazon Reading List is providing information to your network about the books you have read, which you recommend or which you are thinking to read.

Enjoy LinkedIn with applications!

Good Tutorial video about Alltop

Wiki for Entrepreneurs - KookyPlan

A "kooky plan" is an unusual, innovative, and original new idea.

KookyPlan is like a "wikipedia" for entrepreneurs. The goal with this site is to create a resource for startups to use when researching new opportunities. In here you will find a wealth of information on management skills, strategy theories, and practical financial applications.

This is Great Idea. We in BIG would like to support this kind of marvellous tools.

Real entrepreneur spirit

I want to share video about guy with huge archive of records.
He is real entrepreneur spirit. Enjoy!


The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

Arhipelag GULAG

Perhaps many of people are thinking that Arhipelag GULAG by Al. Solzenitchyn is a book about the Russia (or Soviet Union) in 30-50-tees.

However, I have found this book as a philosophical book in a way. The philosophy in here is about Good and Evil and these issues are irrelevant to the time and place. The Russia in this case is coming as a country-sample where these powers of Good and Evil (unfortunately mainly of Evil) were affecting people’s lives.

¹" Who is an evildoer? What is this? Is there anything like that in the World? For us it would be closer to answer that they are not existing...
The great world literature is blowing and blowing thickly-black characters of the evildoers- Shakespeare, and Schiller, and Dickens- for us they look partly farce, embarrassing for the modern perception..." ²

Now, lets have as sample a corporation world in nowadays and a process of the decision making in it.
Is decision making based on the human factor or direction of the business?
Is making his choice manager following needs of the people or corporate policy?
Is CEO of a company seeing alive people or just numbers at the balance sheet?

Honestly answering on the questions above we should better understand WHY prosperously looking corporations are collapsing and WHY there is no stability in the globally established business.

However, please remember ¹"... there is also a threshold for the evil deed. Yes, human-being is hesitating, rushing from evil to good, slipping off, go wrong, clambering up, regretting, again going darken, but until he crossed the threshold of the evil deed - he has a chance to come back, and he himself is still in the volume of our hope. However when the thickness of the evil acts or certain degree of them he suddenly would cross the threshold-he is gone from the mankind. And perhaps - without return."²

¹Aleksandr Solzenitchyn, Arhipelag GULAG I-II , Part 4
² Translation from Russian by Tatjana Torkel