17.1.2012 5pm - 7pm

@ Ravintola Nolla Pohjoinen Rautatienkatu 21 , 00100 Helsinki

Meetup with Mondragon University’s Open Innovation and Intrapreneurship

-executive Master’s program crewminnteam.com

- In the spirit of Venture Café from MIT -

We invite you to meet with the team of 20+ changemakers from Spain, Finland & beyond in the evening hangout inspired

by the concept of Venture Café from MIT.

Venture Café Credo and Participation Guidelines

- Make yourself comfortable. The café’s open, friendly vibe emanates from its patrons. Our goal is to recreate a classic café, where people can unwind and engage with others. So take a breath, relax, and treat yourself to tea, wine or a frothy cup of local craft beer.

- Contribute in a positive way that is valued by other attendees. Respect the social norms of conversation and engagement, respecting others’ desire to interact, or not interact, based on the context of the situation. Be honest and straightforward in all dealings.

- Become an active participant in our experiment. We constantly try new things to improve your interactive experience in this unique space. Help us test things out by providing constructive feedback and sharing your ideas. Remember that we want you to want to come to the café!

- Ask yourself, “How can I help?” Your help may present in the form of sharing your own experiences, learning about another guest’s project and asking questions, or facilitating connections within your network. Follow up with your new contacts to strengthen your community connections.

- Act as if you were an invited guest at a dinner party or at a friend’s wedding.

It’s okay to say what you do, but it’s not okay to sell. We encourage you to initiate and cultivate meaningful connections with others rather than focusing on the hard sell.

- Do your part. Please drink responsibly, re-use cups when possible, and help us keep our space clean by throwing away trash and wiping up spills. We appreciate your support!

We see this as a living document and welcome comments on this, our expression of the Venture Cafe philosophy.

Lets try and have fun!

Guidelines adapted from: http://www.venturecafe.net/credo/credo/

Our intention is to gather to meet, talk and maybe film conversations around Open Innovation and Intrapreneurship. #minnteam forms a big part of this public, but we already invited some Finnish entrepreneurs too and you can meet there for example these boys and girls:

Ville Lähdesmäki, Markus Keränen and Aini Homma from 15/30 Research and Service Design company that makes user-produced market research for companies. ”15/30 Research is a team of curious minds whose expertise are youth and consumer insights in Finland.”

Antti Akonniemi from KiskoLabs ”Kisko Labs makes people happy by solving their problems with digital services. You should kickstart your web product or service with us. We'll complete it in five weeks.”

Mohamed El-Fatatry from Muxlim, social networking site for enhancing the Muslim lifestyle

Karoliina Harjanne from Sulava ”Sulava is a business consulting company specialiced in increasing the productivity of information work.”

Feel free to invite more of your friends from Finland too!

Here you can meet already some of the minners who will be around:

Lets get the conversations going on - and who knows - establish a Venture Café -type of meetup to Nolla for good?

At least this should become an annual event, because #minnteam is visiting Finland every year in January, already since 2011. :)

For more information / ideas, please get in touch with:

Heidi: 050 567 5512 heidi.kuivajarvi@gmail.comHenna: 044 524 8472 henna@banana.fi

Hope to meet you soon, on Tuesday 17.1. @17 @Nolla!