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How Innovation Agencies and Entrepreneurs are Helping Enterprises Grow and Create?Many of today's enterprises thrive in ...
08/09/2022

How Innovation Agencies and Entrepreneurs are Helping Enterprises Grow and Create?

Many of today's enterprises thrive in the corporate climate for many reasons, with innovation at the heart of it all. Read about the importance, challenges, and reasons to adopt innovation in your enterprise today.

Tero Karinti said Being an innovative and creative enterprise isn't always easy. The process requires a specific environment

We’re beyond excited to announce that Ville Riikkala has joined Coventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence. ‍When it com...
08/09/2022

We’re beyond excited to announce that Ville Riikkala has joined Coventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence.

When it comes to building and growing businesses, Ville understands both the technical and business side of things. He has a broad understanding and good sense of the software industry as a whole, how digital companies can scale, and how to develop software products to succeed.

He has worked with many public listed companies in such areas as growth management and innovation. Ville has also been closely involved with startups, helping to screen them into accelerators, building teams, coaching and validating them for funding.

Most of all, Ville is great fun to work with. He has a great sense of humor, strong drive, and works well with nearly anyone.

Read more about Ville's background and why he decided to join Coventures from our blog!

We’re excited to announce that Ville Riikkala has joined Coventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence. ‍When it comes to building and growing businesses, Ville understands both the technical and business side of things. He has a broad understanding and good sense of the software industry as a whol...

How to create an ambitious growth strategy for a corporate-backed startup working in an exciting, fast-growing electric ...
11/08/2022

How to create an ambitious growth strategy for a corporate-backed startup working in an exciting, fast-growing electric vehicle charging market?

Plugsurfing is an e-mobility service provider and charging service for electric vehicles, connecting its customers to Europe's largest, most up-to-date electric vehicle (EV) charging stations with digital payment services.

Coventures has expertise in corporate-backed startups and scalable businesses, an area where the leadership team wanted to boost their understanding. Our entrepreneurial skills-set convinced the leadership team, and they invited us to facilitate the strategy process. In the facilitator's role, we could bring in new methods and ideas on how Plugsurfing's leadership team could build a strategy that would be easy to implement and owned by the whole company.

How to create an ambitious growth strategy for a corporate-backed startup working in an exciting, fast-growing electric vehicle charging market? Plugsurfing is an e-mobility service provider and charging service for electric vehicles, connecting its customers to Europe's largest, most up-to-date ele...

In today’s world, it’s rare for things to be completely clear or precisely determinable. Not everything is black and whi...
09/08/2022

In today’s world, it’s rare for things to be completely clear or precisely determinable. Not everything is black and white. The demands on modern organizations and management are more contradictory and paradoxical than ever before, challenging orthodox value systems and business principles.

In a world where the “what” takes a back seat to the “why”, making bold decisions requires courage, awareness, and a willingness to make mistakes. In digital transformation, this ambiguity is often forgotten.

In this article we’ll discuss why disruption is inevitable and how to embrace it.

In today’s world, it’s rare for things to be completely clear or precisely determinable. Not everything is black and white. The demands on modern organizations and management are more contradictory and paradoxical than ever before, challenging orthodox value systems and business principles. In a...

Juha Vakkila and Marko Oksanen dive into the topic of corporate venturing in the Coventures webinar. The discussion will...
04/08/2022

Juha Vakkila and Marko Oksanen dive into the topic of corporate venturing in the Coventures webinar. The discussion will be partly based on Juha’s research about the topic, where he recently interviewed 15 venture leaders in Finland.

Watch the recording now!

Corporate venturing, an umbrella term for the entrepreneurial activities regarding collaboration of established organizations with new and innovative businesses, has increased in the last decade in Finland. But how does the landscape look from the perspective of venture leaders now – and in the fu...

It's pretty common for companies who tend to carefully listen to their customers to hurry into developing a service or a...
02/08/2022

It's pretty common for companies who tend to carefully listen to their customers to hurry into developing a service or a product to meet the customers' needs as quickly as possible. The ability to identify customers’, sometimes tacit cues, can be vital to a company's continuity, but responding quickly to changing needs often comes at the expense of product development.

Often new products and services surface from well-identified customer needs, but after a while, the initial excitement wears off and is replaced by slower-paced progress. Sometimes we even end up questioning the viability of the original idea. These doubts often originate from a lack of clarity. Rea...

Would you like to hear real life examples and methods to achieve product/market fit? Watch the video ‘How to find produc...
19/07/2022

Would you like to hear real life examples and methods to achieve product/market fit? Watch the video ‘How to find product/market fit’ to learn more about the process from Riku Kokkonen.

What is product/market fit, and how to find it? This article discusses what product/market fit (PMF) is in practice. To understand how we can achieve it, we get to know an early learning process called Product/Market Fit Discovery.

Pulse247 is a Finnish software company focused on helping clients sell more online using the MyCashflow e-commerce platf...
14/07/2022

Pulse247 is a Finnish software company focused on helping clients sell more online using the MyCashflow e-commerce platform.

By the beginning of 2021, Pulse247 had successfully grown into a company of 30 people and was in the midst of transitioning from startup to a fully-fledged Product Company.

Even though steady growth was welcomed, the product development team had gotten way too big and rigid. This meant that the product development wasn't scaling as it should in order to meet the requirements of the growing business.

But how to split the teams? How to maximize the effectiveness of the teams?

These questions prompted us to work on this together and find solutions and the optimal way to structure product teams and support them with their product leadership.

Pulse247 is a Finnish software company focused on helping clients sell more online using the MyCashflow e-commerce platform. In 2021, Pulse247 had successfully grown into a company of 30 people and was transitioning from startup to a fully-fledged Product Company. Even though Pulse247 welcomed stead...

Sweco is Europe's leading engineering and architecture consultancy. They have their hand in directly planning and design...
07/07/2022

Sweco is Europe's leading engineering and architecture consultancy. They have their hand in directly planning and designing the sustainable communities and cities of the future. Sweco's mission includes co-creating solutions to address urbanization, capturing digitalization's power, and making societies more sustainable, working with architects, engineers, and industry specialists.



Coventures' Entrepreneurs in Residence, Sampo Lehtiniemi, and Riku Kokkonen, joined Sweco's development and management team. They aimed to recognize the real potential of Sweco's innovation and identify opportunities to expand their business.

Sweco is Europe's leading engineering and architecture consultancy. They have their hand in directly planning and designing the sustainable communities and cities of the future. Sweco's mission includes co-creating solutions to address urbanization, capturing digitalization's power, and making socie...

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