Founding a Company

I’ve been working for different companies for a decade now. I have taken some serious challenges and turned them into opportunities, eventually succeeded and then climbed up the ladder. Working for a company, big or small, isn’t that rewarding. Most of the actions you do are measured in growth of sales or similar kpi. After achieving the goals you are rewarded, but still all you get is a bit more money when the other partners get the growth and value of it.

After a decade of creating success for these companies and not seeing any other reward than a tap on the bag and a bit more money, i decided to jump into the world of entrepreneurship. I founded my own company.

There is too much mystery built around founding a company. It really isn’t that hard and usually working through your own company means extra income and as everyone seams to be talking about but not too sure what it means, deductible expenses.

Figuring all the important stuff out regarding a new company is best to start by goint to PRH and registering your company. After that, or even before, you can book a time to Uusyrityskeskus and many other helpful places. They tend to tell you what your first steps should be and how to push it through.

After a while of enthusiastic starting a start-up phase the reality check is in place. Taking a 100% focus on the company finances and financial administration is the key in every successful business. I started freelance consulting but ended up doing some other projects with start-ups and now i own a small slice of quite a few new start-ups. In every investment, every acquisition it is critical to have flawless history. This means having your financial administration done thoroughly. There are some brilliant softwares for the purpose on the market. To mention one, which i implemented is Procountor. They are a full service financial administration (in Finnish: taloushallinto) house, they have great Software as a Service model and they do like small businesses as well. This was important for me, when choosing the service provider.