Me, Otto and Karri spent last week in California around the Bay Area promoting Flowdock and making connections. With us we had veritable crème de la crème of young Finnish entrepreneurs, including the founders of Powerkiss, award winning independent iPhone app developer Elias Pietilä (now from Qvik), and the CEOs from GrowVC and Mysites amongst others.
We had a great time, met awesome people and owe big thanks to the organizers of the trip, Aalto Entrepreneurship Society plus ArcticStartup. We especially want to thank Kristo Ovaska, Krista Kauppinen, Riku Seppälä and everyone who made the trip possible and awesome.
Flowdock Press
We did a lot of press contacting to prepare for the public launch of Flowdock later this year and even gave an early video interview to ArcticStartup. Amongst tons of meetings we met with an insightful lady, Tanja Aitomurto, who blogs regularly to Helsingin Sanomat here (in Finnish) about what’s buzzing in the Silicon Valley and got to demo Flowdock to her and get her feedback.
We were also interviewed by Skype Journal in a bit of a controversial situation, where we ended up criticizing Skype as a collaboration tool for its lack of ability to make anything useful out of the information gathered with it.
From Silicon Valley we dove straight back into the slush of Finland’s beginning winter and Slush Helsinki 09, the aptly named startup event where we demoed Flowdock live to the public hordes for the first time ever. Here’s a video interview with Karri pitching Flowdock in Slush by FreejamTV.