tl;dr: #gamer #entrepreneur #blogger

About me:

Product Manager at Rovio Entertainment on Angry Birds Magic.
Our team's goal is to bridge the digital and physical world.
You can find it on the latest Nokia devices and Nook Tablets.

On my spare time, I help startups. I co-founded the Summer of Startups program, coach at Startup Sauna and have been mentoring at Garage48 and various hackathons in the Nordic region.

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Lessons Learned

I have written analysis on known blogs such as ReadWriteWeb, SiliconAngle and ArcticStartup.

- Lessons Learned Living in the Valley
- The Importance of Passion
- 10 Lessons from Summer of Startups
- 5 Lessons Learned From Garage 48
- Nevermind the Valley, Here's Finland
- Snowflakes in the Valley
- The Brief History of Funrank
- How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps
- 10 Challenges for Finland's Startups
- 7 Ways Nokia Can Win Again

Talks

I've given a number of talks on entrepreneurship and gaming at various conferences and schools.

- Stanford: European Entrepreneurship
- TEDx: Does the Web Make Us Stupid?
- TheCube: Analyzing Nokia+Microsoft
- Assembly'11: Angry Birds on the Web
- Metropolia: The Next Startup Heroes

Oldies:
- Lessons Learned in the Valley (2009)
- My First Pitch on Camera (2008)

Previously

I founded Mysites.com, a cloud-based OS similar to Chrome OS (launched in 2008), with 20 web apps on top of our IDE.

Earlier, I contributed to gaming sites such as GamersHell, Emuholic and Gamikaze.

Made graphics, levels, scripting, mods on indie game engines such as Moonlight (helped design), B.O.R, Mugen, AGS.
I played e-Sports competitively on CounterStrike.