Startup Grind Zurich Hosts Mikko Alasaarela

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Mikko Alasaarela, Linko, Inc.

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Founder & CEO, Linko, Inc. San Francisco | Berlin | Helsinki
-Mikko is a creative entrepreneur and occasional angel investor focusing on user experience (UX) and artificial intelligence (AI) startups. His special interest area is mobile services that utilize contextual data in innovative ways. He currently devotes his time to Linko, a mobile enterprise software startup based in San Francisco, Berlin and Helsinki.

Prior Linko, Mikko has founded and built six startups in multiple countries and in various areas of technology. Out of these, he has so far profitably sold three. During his many years of entrepreneurship, he has traveled the planet and lived in Helsinki, London, Berlin and San Francisco, which has yielded a strong global network.

Mikko has a MSc in Business Administration from Turku School of Economics but he really likes design and engineering. As a testament to his passion for design and user experience, he has won the coveted Red Dot Design Award.

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Agenda

7:00 Networking and Food
8:00 Fireside Chat
9:00 Networking

Hosted By Timothy Chuma, Director of Startup Grind Zurich

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With a background in enterprise application development, having worked as a freelance CRM/ERP consultant for over 7 years, Tim brings Startup Grind to Zurich, Switzerland to prove that Switzerland is more than cheese and chocolate. Tim is the founder and CEO of Censeo Computing, a Microsoft Bizspark startup that provides Saas front office applications for the financial service sector. An über fan of anything CRM/CXM, he shares his experiences through his blog The CRM Guy Swiss (http://thecrmguyswiss.com). He is currently lives in Zug, Switzerland with startup CEO wife (http://www.mumpreneurs.ch/) and two lovely kids.
Email: Timothy@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @censeocomputing (http://twitter.com/censeocomputing)

Hosted By David Butler, Director of Startup Grind Zurich

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David Butler is a serial networker (http://www.socialaxle.com) and social media aficionado. Both David’s strong social presence and his love of testing beta versions of new products coming from Zurich’s many startups, have made him a sought after advisor in many industries. Fully engaged in the Swiss Startup Scene, promoting it's innovation with events, networking, twitter, and connecting the dots.
Email: dbutler@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @david_a butler

Global Partners

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Local Partners

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