Family
Nowadays every other week I'm a single parent of four amazing teenagers. Combining these weeks when I will take care of everything for my loved ones into etrepreneurship has really teached me how to prioritize and manage several items at the same time. It has also teached me how to make best use of every minute and how to get working results in minimum time, as there really is not enough time for every item that needs to be done.
Is it hard - Yes. But it's also the best thing there is and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Founder @ CanSoMe Oy
Cansome Oy is a European alternative for the current hegemony of US based software platforms. The base product being finalized at Cansome is a platform upon which one can build other web based applications on.
The first product that Cansome will bring to market is a No-Code Web Builder software (built on top of the base platform), which will be affordable and easy to use tool for building full websites with SEO and Compliance features built in. The tool is 100% European meaning it's running in servers located in Germany (at start) and uses no US depended software layers or services in the base functionalities. Websites built with Cansome Web Builder tool are also blazingly fast loading.
More about CanSoMe
Entrepreneur @ Sovelluskumppanit
Sovelluskumppanit nowadays offers SEO, marketing and online visibility services for businesses. In addition to marketing services, we can also build any software or component that the customer needs.
In the past Sovelluskumppanit has done 3D manufacturing software, webshop with POS integration for stores offering both decentralised and centralized warehouse options and integrations to payment and shipment providers, touchscreen operated POS cashier software and more...
This link to Sovelluskumppanit www pages
Entrepreneur @ Kangaskapina
Kangaskapina has for over ten years sold high quality clothing and interior fabrics from it's webshop. At it's peak we had four brick and mortar stores (Helsinki, Turku, Tampere and Loimaa) and ten employees. But unfortunately we couldn't keep up with the rapid growth and eventually had to downsize greatly.
Now Kangaskapina is more of a side business with only webshop operational. Still in business though.
To Kangaskapina
My previous companies
Nexetic Oy I was part of founding team in Nexetic, a company providing backup software. I was the "tech guy", who developed the entire first online backup software back in 2009 with windows client, server backend and online admin panel (which by the way is still after 16 years running).
Loimaan Pienvarastot was a local (Loimaa) self storage with a good market but that I eventually had to gave up (maybe I should open it up again... 🤔)
RemppaSepe was a renovation and construction company I set up to employ my father. At it's peak it had five employees. This one also closed down after a few years (not really my field).
M3 -disco services this was my first "company" back in the 90's that I founded together with two friends - when we were still young and handsome (now we're just handsome)... We offered full disco services with sound, lighting and DJs. Some locals (Loimaa area) might still remember this.
Other things about Timo
Experienced Software Designer before founding different software companies, I used to work as a Programmer (at Perlos), Software Designer (at Analyste), Software Engineer (at Basware) and then as a Senior Software Engineer (at Flander) in the Tampere area. I think one of those even still exists with that name 😅
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA (in IT / Entrepreneurship) from Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Peacekeeper, KFOR 1999-2000 in Kosovo right after the war. An extreme learning experience of how stupid the hatred among men can be.