1. Your goal is to be the first person that an entrepreneur reaches out to in times of trouble, but also of joy. How do you do this? We work closely with entrepreneurs from the very start of their companies. We focus on solving pragmatic challenges that emerge: who to hire and when, what product […]
Could you tell me a bit about your personal journey to where you are now? NATHALIE GREEN: I’ve been working with communications and business development within financial services for basically all of my professional life. One of my first-ever jobs was at the Stockholm Stock Exchange. It wasn’t planned, but rather something that just happened. I […]
On community We are a house of digital innovation that brings interesting people together to grow and innovate. When you join our community, you need to be ready to both give and get. Together, we are more. Our community is at the core of everything we do. We want to give our members platforms and […]
What exactly is Growth Collective Finland and how does it work? The story of the Growth Collective (Kasvuryhmä) starts from the 29 founding members’ dream to create hunger for growth. Today, it is a community of 200 growth captains from 150 mid-sized companies who are looking to grow and renew themselves continuously. In practice, to […]
1. Greener pastures for finance According to a Divest-Invest campaign, 985 institutional investors who account to -almost 6.5 trillion USD have turned away from fossil fuel — a stark contrast to 52 billion USD only four years ago. Clean tech — companies that work to turn fields like energy, water, agriculture, transportation and manufacturing environmentally […]
Milja Liljeström, 34, Restaurant Manager, Starter Restaurant: Positive people who bring joy to others. Heidi Tawast, 32, Community Manager, Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN): People that support and help me. Here at Maria 01 we have a lot of them. Tuomas Manninen, 37, Chief Happiness Officer, Maria 01: Building steady team spirit with people. Martyna […]
Technology is sometimes portrayed as one of the evils of the world — from nightmares of robots to fear of artificial technology taking over the world, some of us approach technology with more than a conservative dose of scepticism. However, technology has the power to change things big and small, especially in the field of healthcare. Enter […]
The average worker spends 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime — a whopping one third of their entire life. Work is what we spend a huge chunk of our days on and, paraphrasing author Annie Dillard, how we spend our days is how we spend our lives. Exactly how, what and with whom we […]
Does happiness play a part in investing? If so, what does it look like? Pia Santavirta: Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA) just released a study on impact investing, which is very much tied to wellbeing and happiness. Impact investing is investing in unlisted companies that are both good investments and work towards a more environmentally […]