Description:

Who?
Videolla.com is a brand-new online startup in media content distribution. It was founded by international team from Russia, US and Finland with total experience in 20+ startups in Silicon Valley and over the world. We share the passion for creating new services that customers will fall in love with. With Videolla.com we are aiming to redefine how online publishing works by offering powerful and elegant solution for monetization of content and audiences.

Videolla.com got very positive reviews from communities and advisers in US and Finland. Our team was selected for Bootcamp @ aaltoes.com in Finland, where we are planning to setup our primary research and development office.
Videolla.com is just in the beginning of its journey to become a global media marketplace and we are excited to welcome our first Finnish co-founders. Let’s make it BIG together!

What?
We are about one month away from launching our beta version. We are going to make it fast and dirty and develop iteratively using split testing and early users feedback. Videolla is self-funded by its founders and will be bootstrapping until the first round. We are looking for the first core member in Finland to help us to launch and setup a local development office.

You:
- Hacker/web designer with experience in web, cloud technologies, online video streaming, scalable services and agile development
- Have passion for solving complex problems on the edge of technology and business. (Ex: What is the cheapest way to encode 10Gb of video per minute?)
- Love testing new things, rework existing solutions and disrupt old models
- “Startup-infected” – passion for creating new things and making them BIG!
- Like the idea of building a global distributed company (think frequent flies to US, trips over Europe etc)
- Have a passion for changing the world
- Think it is going to be real fun to build a company that actually makes A LOT of money, not just burn some of investor’s money.
-Nice to have familiarity with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
OR
If you are a media/PR specialist, CEO, co-founder or adviser of Finnish technological company with international experience – let’s talk anyways. We are just starting in Finland so having a lot of roles to be filled with a few generalists.

Can I work part-time?
Absolutely. Although we have a lot of work for our small and distributed team so we work really hard!

Wait, how about salary?
Because we are bootstrapping ourselfs, we are currently not offering any salary in the next two months. After that time team members will get significant options and salary.

Let’s talk!
Send your CV to hello {at) videolla.com

Compensation: DOE after 2 months
Created: 15/04/2010

To apply

Email CV to hello (at) videolla.com

Last application date: 31/05/2010

We are now looking for

Mobile SW Developer

Job description

· Develop new products and features on Windows Mobile, Symbian, Maemo, or Java (Google Android, Blackberry or JavaME) environments
· Feature management and requirements handling· Architecture design, software implementation and testing
· Interact with other teams, project and product management responsibilities over time
· Part-time or full-time job

Qualifications

Very strong skills and experience in at least one key smartphone platform, hands-on experience in working with smartphone applications or architectures, skills in other platforms are an advantage.  Most importantly, you are a passionate and skillful programmer and like building great products, and understand product roadmap planning and management

· Educational background in computer science or equivalent

· Proven ability to deliver projects on time with excellent problem solving skills

We offer a competitive base salary and work-related benefits and incentives.

Please send a cover letter and a resume to recruitment@zokem.com with the position title  “Mobile SW Developer” in the email subject line.

Deadline: 20.2.2010

We are now looking for

Java developer

Job description

· Develop new features for JavaSE/EE applications
· Architecture design, software implementation and testing
· Interact with other teams including product management, project and product management responsibilities over time

Qualifications

· Experienced and skillful Java-developer
· Thorough understanding of object oriented programming
· Strong database skills, preferably MySQL
· Experience in agile software development and version handling
· Understanding of other programming languages, PHP, C++, etc. is a plus

Most importantly, you are a passionate and skillful programmer and like building great products, and understand product roadmap planning and management.

· Educational background in computer science or equivalent
· Proven ability to deliver projects on time with excellent problem solving skills

We offer a competitive base salary and work-related benefits and incentives.

Please send a cover letter and a resume to recruitment@zokem.com with the position title ‘Java Developer’ or in the email subject line.

Deadline: 20.2.2010

IHQLife is a Helsinki, Finland based start-up company, developing a novel system for advanced diabetes management.

We are currently looking for an experienced programmer to be in charge of our software R&D and to build a professional software team to work with in the future.
We expect:

- At least a few years in C# and .NET
- TDD understanding mandatory
- Silverlight / WPF experience
- Web / web-service / ASP.NET development experience
- Medical software development experience and QMS understanding a big plus.
- Project management experience a big plus
We offer:

- Competitive terms and benefits
- A unique opportunity to join a great start-up developing blockbuster products.
- A great and inspiring team to work with

If you are interested, please contact kristian.ranta@ihqlife.com
for further details.

1) mobile widget (so called Web Runtime Widget for Series 60) development
2) back-end functionality and Web development on LAMP environment
3) a task for a freelance graphical person for generating mobile content (like images and animations) on given subject

Location: Helsinki
Type: freelance or employee

Apply before: end of October, some tasks may be open later this fall

Contact: markku.ranta[at]familiq.com

Web site: www.familiq.com – don’t open yet, still dead

First of all, we had two Pitches from Startups looking for interested coders and sales persons to start working for them… These are early stage startups, and really great opportunities to learn and get to do something important during the summer.

Koala is a Startup developing non-visual controlling of the mobile. It was the second time I saw the demo and it still amazes me. So with Koala technology you can control your mobile with gestures without looking at your phone with the help of a 3D sound menu. I can’t really explain that, you have to see it. They are looking for a Marketing & Sales person, student, graduate or more experienced. 2 Application developers, fulltime, with experience from Mobile, Java, C++. For this opportunity contact Raine Kajastila, firstname.lastname at tkk.fi.

Another opportunity relates to a team from Sibelius Akatemia, they are creating a professional tool for Musicians on the iPhone, they’re looking for a C++ coder and a Business Developer. That’s a summer project. You can contact Kristo Ovaska for more information, at fristname.lastname at gmail.com.

The TechStart Evening

The evening started off with a short info by our host, Jori, and the Software Entrepreneurs Organization. After the intro we got the enjoy the real beef, three very interesting presentations by some of the top entrepreneurs in Finland:

1. Teemu Kurppa from Huikea (ex-Jaiku)
2. Tuomas Syrjänen from Futurice
3. Osma Ahvenlampi from Sulake

I’m sure that all the tech students present got some very interesting new viewpoints to development and entrepreneurship. It was also a great event for everyone else… Gathering the main points from the guys about entrepreneurship, it would probably be the following:

1. Figure out an interesting problem to solve
2. Will, Vision and Persistence
3. Be lean, fail smart and learn fast

After the presentations we got to hear about Microsoft’s Bizspark program, a program that allows startups to get their hands on all the Microsoft developement products for free. At least most of them. We also got to hear the stories of two Startups that have been in the program: GWeb2 and Sopima. Excellent stuff, go and check it out.

Value of Code = 0 and some more stuff

Teemu Kurppa from Huikea gave us his insights of the mobile market. Huikea is still in stealth mode, but seems to be targeted at the mobile market… Well, it is according to Teemu. Some pretty clever mathematics clearly shows why the mobile market suddenly is so attractive, and why the iPhone is so influential. I remember when the iPhone was released, Nokia was saying that it’s not a threat to them at all, it’s such a marginal product. Well, things have changed a bit, but still last autumn I was discussing with some Nokia Strategy people and they commented that Nokia has a strong position regarding smartphones. The logic was that Symbian has something like 2 million registered developers. And Nokia still has the most phones out, so developers reach a maximum amount of users. Right?

Teemu drew us this table:

It’s quite astonishing how one company can create this eco-system of Developers, Users and Distibutors/Operators. It’s actually very smart, currently obvious but definitely not easy. This clearly shows why the level of innovation is so much higher in the iPhone compared to others. One of the key aspects that Teemu presented was of course the appStore and the ability for Apple and the developers to monetize the apps quickly and painlessly.

Teemu went on to discuss about mobile payments, and how the appStore changed the game since it became possible for startups to start monetizing on mobile apps. The new innovation from Apple in OS 3.0 are the in-app purchases which again allow a new level of innovation and monetization.

About the payments, Teemu also went on to describing the URL as a superior distribution model (Viral & Automatic updates…), but that a good payment solution still doesn’t exist. Read more from Teemu on his blog.

Next up was Tuomas, CEO of Futurice, one of the fastest growing Technology Companies in the World (well, at least it was Europe, which must mean the world as well, right?). He wanted to shape us all into entrepreneurs and his point was that it just takes Passion, Will, Vision, Persistence and the Ability to Learn. As well, you need a Team.

Learning was emphasized, and the ability to adapt to changes. As the company grew, and Futurice didn’t really have any sales people, Tuomas had just one day decided to become a sales person. That’s definitely will, and persistence. And I’m sure it’s easier that way around…(Being more of a salesperson myself). Some other imporant things that Tuomas discussed were:

1. Even contracts are People
2. The less experienced you are the more dangerous money is.
3. There are a billion good business opportunities – You only need to find one.
4. The value of code = 0. Only code that is in use and solves a business problem is worth something. If someone has a better solution than the code you’ve been working on for a year. Use the better solution.

Osma Ahvenlampi, CTO of Sulake also discussed the issues that according to his experience are vital in entrepreneurship and especially Software entrepreneurship. Some of the pointers that really caught me from his presentation were:

1. Starting up now is cheaper than ever.
2. You (and he) are wrong most of the time, so the key to decisions is to make them and the continuously revisit and realign the decisions.
3. Fail Fast. Fail Smart. Learn Fast.
4. Produce value for your customer: It probably isn’t what you think it is, so test the market now. You always release too late (Because even he does)
5. There is one metric that rules over all: Cycle Time (release-to-release)
6. Small teams rule.

Learn more at startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com

I think that was a bit too much wisdom for a blog post, but if you’ve read this far, congratulations, and please comment about AES or TechStart!

TechStart – BioStart?

AES will continue to organize TechStart types of events. We’ll gather some great entrepreneurs for a specific field and let them tell you about something interesting and how they see entrepreneurship and let them share their expertise on their subjects. It’s a great way to meet interesting people and generate stuff to think about. I’m sure that there were a lot of people who got new ideas from TechStart.

Riku Seppälä, AES