Comments on: Culture and Entrepreneurshop http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2008/08/culture-and-entrepreneurshop/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:28:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ville Vesterinen http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2008/08/culture-and-entrepreneurshop/#comment-342 Ville Vesterinen Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:47:07 +0000 http://www.bubblefoundry.com/?p=85#comment-342 Good points you raised Peter. I especially liked how you saw the issue with international expansion and the choices that might seem good for the business at the time but that might be actually limiting the possibilities of the start-up in question in the long run. I see a different kind of artificial life support that hurts the ecosystem in the long run in Finland. Yet, is has the same kind of negative effect on the start-ups and the path dependency that will affect the culture in the long run, namely the ill incentiviced governmental early-stage investing and other market distorting subsidies from the Finnish public sector agencies. It's been great to follow the Amsterdam start-up scene even if from a distance. You guys act as an inspiration to a lot of people here Finland even if you might not see it explicitly. Keep up the good work! Ville. Good points you raised Peter. I especially liked how you saw the issue with international expansion and the choices that might seem good for the business at the time but that might be actually limiting the possibilities of the start-up in question in the long run.

I see a different kind of artificial life support that hurts the ecosystem in the long run in Finland. Yet, is has the same kind of negative effect on the start-ups and the path dependency that will affect the culture in the long run, namely the ill incentiviced governmental early-stage investing and other market distorting subsidies from the Finnish public sector agencies.

It’s been great to follow the Amsterdam start-up scene even if from a distance. You guys act as an inspiration to a lot of people here Finland even if you might not see it explicitly. Keep up the good work!

Ville.

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