During the Intopia, me and my later co-founder of Yousician Mikko realized how well the two of us work together under pressure. This learning would become crucial for us co-founding real-life company Yousician which today is the worlds largest music educator. We still refer to the 20€ cash-prize we won in Intopia as the “seed-funding” for Yousician. We invested it well into a few beers at the “Kultainen Apina” pub in Tampere, where our passion for entrepreneurship took root. From my experience, working intensively with a person on a project like Intopia is a great test for how well the collaboration will work in a professional setting. And while it was a lot of hard work, it was fun also.
I participated to Intopia (Fintopia) when working on my Dr Tech thesis on Corporate Strategy. Even with my experience in founding and running an international startup the game provided new insights to business dynamics and gave possibilities to test theories in practice. Building agile strategy, creating routine in reading and interpreting the financials and making analytical yet fast decisions were all tasks that are needed in real world, making this course one of the most useful there is. I have always been an avid fan of games and I am not alone – therefore I think Fintopia will be a hit wherever it is made available.
