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 […]
For most of us, making bank transactions is so simple and automatic that it goes unnoticed. Withdrawing money from an ATM is as easy as breathing or walking down the street. We do our weekly grocery shopping with a swipe of a contactless card and pay for mid-sized dreams with a credit card. Starting a […]
Be persistent When we first started out in Finland, we started with nothing. We compiled a list of a hundred Finnish companies that could use our help and trusted our gut instinct that we’d find a few that would be willing to work with us. It was tough. When we finally managed to secure our […]
Today, an office could be anything from a sunny corner in a studio apartment in Berlin to a food truck that circles around a city’s streets. Although many of us still work in traditional office cubicles, the way we see work and workstations is changing fast with remote working becoming increasingly accepted and trailblazing entrepreneurs […]