ArcticStartup: Chapter 3. New CEO & Expansion.
The purpose of ArcticStartup has always been to help the startup and entrepreneurial community. How we did that - changed with the times, and it is about to ch...
Dmitri Sarle
You Are Invited: The Next Step In Finnish Startup Scene
Even though I am not originally from Finland, I was lucky enough to see the local startup ecosystem go through many of its most important steps of development, ...
Maximizing The Use Of Your Network in 2018
It is my opinion that success in anything, including happiness, quite often correlates with your ability to create a network, or perhaps I would use the word co...
These 15 Startups Will Raise Funding Imminently
This year, Arctic15 is going to experiment a bit. We thought about the traditional pitching competition, already a staple of startup events, and decided to turn...
TOP 30 Nordic/Baltic Startups 2018 Revealed
For us, the TOP list of startups is not a show of who has already achieved great success, that list is an easy one to make, instead, we want to find companies t...
Minimum Viable Advice: Startup Hiring Explained
When you are hiring for startups, you’re not only looking for skills. You are looking for people that are ready to hustle, join your tribe and bring your ...
Pitching Competitions Are For Rockstars, Not Entrepreneurs
What is the purpose of pitching events? To find the best startups? Perhaps the top entrepreneurs? If so, are they really the best tools for the job? Afteral...
How Dreams Can Help You Fail?
Everyone has a dream - make a million dollars, go around the world in a car, become a successful actress, participate in the Olympics, sell your company to Face...
What’s the Buzz With Early Stage Investment Funds?
In the past few months, we started to notice a trend in which more and more investors are focusing on either early-stage startups or super-early stage ones.
Fi...
Hacking Conferences: Slush Battleplan
If you thought last year's event was big, Slush is not getting any smaller and welcoming over 20,000 people in Helsinki. To get the most out of the event it's c...
Unicorns Are Dead, Let’s Build Dragons Instead
If you are a startup - raising money in 2017 is a piece of cake. All you have to have is a semi-realistic idea, a couple of people who have a LinkedIn profile a...
The End of Startups and The Rise of True Entrepreneurs
Recently, Jon Evans posted a rather thought-provoking story on the end of the startup era that began making its rounds in the startup community. That is somethi...
3 Minute Friday. Episode 41
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Dmitri Sarle
Board Member
Dmitri is on a mission to change what it means to "work" in a "company". At ArcticStartup - he is building a "life" in a tribe instead. With five companies and one exit across a wide range of industries under his belt, Dmitri possesses a high level understanding of innate business processes that one would not find in text books.