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Initiative Q – quite pyramid, very Ponzi, but actually simply a massive junk bond giveaway

The initiative Q e-mail address collection scheme has apparently seen waves of virality since June already. This week it reached my...

So, I got a prison sentence for 'copying' – what did that mean exactly?

If this remains as a precedent case in higher orders of court, this could mean that: a) Anyone who has seen some initial drafts for a serv

A startup should not maximize profits (in individual investments)

Ends do not dictate means OK, so now you ruthlessly compared and validated alternative missions (together with your team) and found a...

Founder, Don’t Be a Fruit Fly. Get an Investor Mindset.

Individual fruit flies are fragile and have short lifespans. And that is precisely why fruit fly populations/infestations are really...

A Startup = a Team of Expendable Self-made Slaves on a Suicidal Quest for a Needle in a Sea of Hayst

Startup. A yet hipper word. So hip that that’s probably what most metropolitan Finns think nowadays when they hear “entrepreneurship”....

Skin in the Game: Why Hitler Was More of an Entrepreneur than Einstein

The essence of entrepreneurship is not creativity or innovativeness. Not even initiative or getting things done (though those are hygiene...

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Tuure Parkkinen

Tuure is a serial entrepreneur, investor, writer, and speaker. He is CEO and Founder at Start Here Ventures, a very-early-stage investment company – a team of Finnish founders helping prospective founders avoid simple pitfalls, focus on the relevant, and "reverse engineer" their company. (http://starthere.fi/)

Tuure's credentials include founding the surplus food marketplace company ResQ Club in 2015 (https://www.resq-club.com/en/), turning around aTalent Recruiting, into a growth-oriented, consultative HR services company in 2009-2011 (https://atalent.fi/), as well as developing the Root Bug hypothesis: a set of simple improvement suggestions to the rules of the market economy (rootbug.org).

He has written two books: Fixing the Root Bug and Paradox Economics.

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CONFESSIONS AND EPIPHANIES OF A STARTUP REBEL

A controversial and existential blog about entrepreneurship,the game of the market economy, and meaning in life.Finding the brutally honest nuggets through all the hype and pöhinä.

About the author

Tuure Parkkinen

A controversial and existential blog about entrepreneurship,
the game of the market economy, and meaning in life.
Finding the brutally honest nuggets through all the hype and pöhinä.