Sebastian Aniszewski, a business development, strategy, and innovation professional, has joined Coventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Sebastian has more than a decade of valuable experience from the corporate world and has personally experienced the value of an entrepreneurial mindset and skillset.‍He is now eager to help our clients to solve meaningful problems and execute them to deliver results.

Petri Ahti, a Product and Business Development professional, has joined Coventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence. He has a strong leadership background from various executive-level roles. Petri has built his career around fintech and the payments industry and has many demonstrated success stories to share along his career. At Coventures, Petri will use his extensive experience to help our clients build and manage successful product businesses. Read more about Petri and his background!

A strong agile team will not be defined by traditional roles and responsibilities. The agile approach looks holistically at the contributions of each member and the final results. Each team will be unique and will require managerial trust as it finds the working methods that best suit them. ‍A good team should consist of diverse players, each with their own tasks including testing, analysis, and implementation. Through direct and open communication they will quickly adapt in real-time and learn to cycle through different workflow phases. ‍In this blog post, we will look closely at the markers that make the most successful agile teams, as well as important considerations when building ventures. Lastly, we discuss the role of product manager when leading agile teams.

We are happy to announce that Pekka Walkama joins Coventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Pekka is a highly experienced entrepreneur and CEO and has worked in the tech and digital business industry for over 20 years.Our clients will benefit from Pekka's experience building product businesses, scaling up and transitioning from consulting to a product-led business, and building/running a vast reseller partner ecosystem globally across all time zones.

Knowing when and how to scale your software team can be complicated. Putting in place the proper tools with a long-term outlook can lead to colossal growth. Still, there is no one way to scale a team or company. Understanding what is already working and unique about your business will provide clues for how to best adapt as you scale up operations. In this article Jesse Heikkilä discusses when and how you should scale your software development team.

We are happy to announce that Jesse Heikkilä, an experienced product professional and startup founder, joins Coventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence. ‍Jesse has solid technical experience and a background in computer science and business. He has co-founded the global startup Playven, a SaaS sports facility management and scheduling solution.‍We asked Jesse about his background and why he decided to join Coventures.

A well-planned growth strategy is an important aspect of running any business. It provides you with a list of goals and concrete actions that keep you from falling to the whim of market disruptions or a changing user base. It is a strategic plan of action that helps you identify different possibilities for company growth including acquisitions, added locations, and product and service expansions. Your particular industry will guide you in the ways most suitable for growth, but likely this will include expanding your customer base. This article will examine the most common types of business growth strategy as well as the 6 best ways to build an enterprise growth strategy framework.

Whether a bootstrapped startup or a corporate behemoth, starting a new business has always been a hit-and-miss endeavor. According to the decades-long formula, you design a business strategy, offer it to investors, assemble a team, launch a product, and begin selling aggressively. And somewhere along the way, you'll almost certainly experience a deadly setback. According to research, the chances are stacked against you; a whopping 90% of all start-ups fail.‍However, to mitigate the odds that are definitely against new founders and certainly not for the faint of heart, we should consider a new way of doing things by emphasizing experimentation and iterative design over traditional "big design up front" development, and customer input over intuition or old rigid models. ‍Where companies often tumble is their deep misunderstanding of the product/market fit.