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Ramine Darabiha interviews Finnish startup Videolla . Videolla allows you to upload videos for free but what is interesting about the about the not yet live service is that they allow you to apply custom fees to the uploaded videos. Key examples would be for educational videos but the possibilities are obviously vast. Videolla is accepting signups for a public beta (come on hurry up guys).

Nerd Stalker contributor Ramine Darabiha interviews founder of FinderBase Petteri Kontio . FinderBase.com is a community where the members help each other find their lost belongings. That means FinderBase.com is a social search engine for anything physical you've lost or found. This service is in beta testing stage.

Nerd Stalker contributor Ramine Darabiha interview with Finland based startup LucSens founder Lulian Florea. LucSens uses state-of-the art technology in computer vision, revealing you the possibility to get instant translation from Chinese or Japanese to English by taking pictures with your mobile device.

Scred is a Finnish startup that helps groups of people manage their money. It allows bands, associations, businesses, etc, to keep track of their accounting, finance, send invoices, manage an online shop. The business model is a small transaction fee. The service recently launched a "version 2", with an improved design and simplified user experience, which Kristoffer Lawson (co-founder and CEO) describes in the video. Scred is a service for managing money for groups of people. With it you can track income, profit, debt, revenues and shared expenses between the members of a group. Used by e.g. flatmates, travelers, bands, hobby groups, mini-businesses, amateur film creators and artists.

Nerd Stalker contributor Ramine Darabiha , interviews Jori Lallo , one of the founders of Finnish startup Shobble . Shobble is a service that allows users to submit and rate different stores. The site just launched, and currently focuses on women's products. The problem is quite simple: buying products online requires a lot of trust, and in Europe, delivery is often an issue. The service is being built by a single student, Jori Lallo, who happens to be one of the team members of Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, which we've covered earlier here .

Aaltoes is a student run association that promotes entrepreneurship in Finland. It was started just a year ago and is in the process of becoming an incubator for new startups. Ramine Darabiha interviewed Kristo Ovaska (founder) about the association's past and it's future plans.

Ramine Darabiha, interviews Kai Lemmetty about the down and dirty specifics of the Finnish startup funding scene. It's a very educational listen, they even touch upon the rest of Europe.

For my second post about interesting Finnish startups, I decided to interview Timo Vuorensola . Timo is the director of the scifi movie Star Wreck , the most popular Finnish movie ever. He started a new crowdsourcing startup called Wreckamovie , which helps directors create movies the same way he did, as well as their next movie called Iron Sky (it's about Nazis on the Moon!). We discussed his past, current, and future projects.

Nerd Stalker Finland's very own Ramine Darabiha , interviews Kai Lemmetty , co-founder and CEO of Floobs . Floobs was a video streaming service, comparable to Qik or Stickam , which was funded, got a fair amount of traction and started to monetize. However, the service went bankrupt 2 weeks ago. Kai tells us about the story of the company, how it came to be, how things went wrong and what lessons were learned.