Karri Saarinen

Co-founder at ArcticStartup

Finland

Current
Past
Education
  • Vaasan yliopisto
Connections
87 connections
Industry
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Karri Saarinen’s Summary

Passion for broad knowledge, strategy, startups, entrepreneurship, Internet services, web technologies, design and simplicity.

Karri Saarinen’s Specialties:

Software, customer development, lean startup, early-stage startups, project management, web development and design, interface design, social media


Karri Saarinen’s Experience

  • Business Developer

    Nodeta

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    May 2009Present (7 months)

    Business and Customer Development

  • Co-Founder

    ArcticStartup

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    September 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

    Tech lead and writer of a blog dedicated to profiling and reviewing Internet startups and growth entrepreneurship from Nordic & Baltic countries.

  • Owner

    2nd Revision

    (Internet industry)

    October 2007Present (2 years 2 months)

    Providing Internet consulting, web products and solutions for businesses.

  • Web Developer

    Assembly Organizing

    (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 2006Present (3 years 4 months)

    Member of a team that administrates and develops the annual ASSEMBLY computer festivals’ sites. Second developer of social media aggregating and sharing site for the ASSEMBLY visitors

  • Web Developer

    Crasman Co Ltd

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    January 2008August 2008 (8 months)

    Web development and design

  • Team Leader, Web Developer

    Finnish Defence Forces

    (Internet industry)

    July 2007January 2008 (7 months)

    Responsible of managing a web and multimedia in-house production team and in charge of IBM WebSphere Web Content Manager’s deployment testing and internal training.

  • Web Developer

    Graftor Media Production Oy

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2005August 2005 (3 months)

    Developed a social web service which aim was to connect elderly people with youngsters and provide valuable guidance. Service was launched as planned and got positively noticed internationally.

    Service was build on LAMP and users were authenticated by electronic ID card.


Karri Saarinen’s Education

  • Vaasan yliopisto

    School of Economics 20082012 (expected)


Additional Information

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Karri Saarinen’s Interests:

technology, reading, traveling

Karri Saarinen’s Groups:

  •    Finnish 2.0 Entrepreneurs
  •    Finnish Hi-tech Start-up Community
  •    Grow VC - Startups Group
  •    TED Club Helsinki
  •    Startup Commons

Karri Saarinen’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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