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Global Venture Lab cooperates and collaborates with businesses to bring live cases into the classroom and practical research & strategy to the firm.
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Profile Pros is a Finnish family startup that works in renewable energy sector. They for example create business models which turn waste into useful, environmentally-friendly products - mainly energy using the latest innovations. Niko Järvinen, a student in TLT since 2008 founded the company in 2009, with his father, and has since designed new way of treating waste waters using algae and is currently in the process of building first pilot plant. Through the TLT courses, GVL has assisted Niko with everything from business design to productization to marketing and selling. He is an active member in the GVL community and has been involved with R2G Day, V2C Forum, LaunchPad, GVL Open etc. |
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The health kiosk project coordinated by the Society of Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) and the Science & Technology Entrepreneurs’ Park (STEP) at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT) is a growth venture that strives to operate thousands of health kiosks across India in the next few years. GVL Finland has taken a lead role, to develop a growth venturing strategy for the health kiosk project. Based on his experience and recent endeavours in academia, Christian has placed the health kiosk project on the "optimal path" – using an "optimal logic". In doing so he has created a high growth venturing vision that would assist in making the project a global venture. Using the optimal logic, it was understood that the first step was to create the brand and brand identity for the kiosk. The undertaking has been divided into three key tasks:
- writing the "story" and developing
- a strategy for growing a global community to support the kiosks
- developing the brand identity
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PedaSport is an agile and academic company providing wellness and physical activity services. One of its founding entrepreneurs, Aki Soundusaari has been an active GVL participant as the entrepreneur with PedaSport and as a student in PLT/TLT courses. Since 2009, GVL has assisted PedaSport with analysing its business model (TLTP050 Yritystoiminta) productizing its services (TLT710 Tuotteistaminen), creating a funding strategy (TLTA112 Venture Capital Strategies) and developing one of its products, PedaSport Experience (TLTA630 Project Work). PedaSport is also participating in GVL's R2G Day as one of the firms on the "runway" on May 11, 2010.
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