Le Web conference (9-10 Dec. Paris) is coming! I’m going to be there and I really hope to meet many of you too!
As you probably noticed during the last month I added to the sidebar of andreavascellari.com a direct link to the registration page for Le Web + the registration code BLOGDISCOUNT with which you’ll receive a 20% discount!

I’ve lately had many discussion on how the break from the Nordics & Baltics and make one’s service or product really global. Just recently I had this discussion here at Nordkapp where I work, so it does not only concern software products but equally all the service provides with international ambitions.

To continue from our partnership with the Nordic Venture Forum we have partnered with the European Venture Summit to bring more visibility for Nordic and Baltic startups among the investors in the region.

ArcticStartup and Digibusiness Helsinki Region are organizing a trip for Finnish startups to LeWeb which takes place in Paris on 9th and 10th December.

Episode: VMC #81 - Tim O’Reilly on Poor Quality Startups
Show notes & Credits: Blogger Roundtable - Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin Germany, question by Arne Hulstein

• LeWeb’08 Paris December 9-10th 2008
• 1500 participants from 40 countries
• Terrific programme
• Startup competition
• The theme: LOVE
• I’ll be there We’ll be there!

Yes right! We’ll be there!
It’s not gonna be just me taking part… Why?

Me and Ramine Darabiha (CEO of MySites.com)
Yesterday night I was at the MySites.com party in Onnela (Tampere, Finland). The event was massive, 2000 people & a lot of fun. Here some photos

A new show is available now on VMC . It’s a video chat that I recorded during last year’s Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin with Reshma Sohoni, CEO of Seedcamp. I wanted to share it with you to give an insight of which kind of people, ideas, startups etc. you’ll find at events like this.
I hope to see you in Berlin!

Andrea
+ PSSSS…

I met the Jaiku founders (now at Google), Petteri Koponen and Jyri Engeström, yesterday at the Seedcamp evening party and asked them how they see the startup scene in Europe versus US and of course what they are up to nowadays.

Me and Susanne Hiltunen

Earlier, I wrote about how much great PR Finnish travel startup

Finland is renown best from Nokia and competence in the mobile technology. In addition to Nokia’s success many unexpected innovations have been born in Finland – Linux kernel, SMS messaging and IRC – Internet relay chat, forefather of instant messengers. So, in addition to mobile technology enthusiasm the Finns can be expected to push to the limits with new, disruptive ideas. The latest – but certainly not the last - was Jaiku, acquired by Google in 2007.