Ykä currently work in two startups (W-Secure Ltd and Vibsolas Ltd) as an owner, founder, CTO and Product Evangelist. He is also a co-founder of Starttaamo.fi (community for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs) and Somepitching.com (online social business idea competition). Ykä has also a PhD in Human Sciences from Loughborough University (UK).
In his talk he will share his experience at SoMePitching. What happens when using ordinary people for crowdsourcing the best business ideas? Ykä tells a story about how new startup competition idea was born and what he has learned about crowdsourcing after three competitions. Are people dumb or just hard to control?