Interviews
Here are interviews of the young entrepreneuers (2012-2013):
Halukiosk (Jali Närhi):
What is your idea?
To sell goods to students at kiosk.
Where did you get your idea?
Just made up something students would buy.
Do you do co-operation with other companies and people?
Stores and wholesales.
What have you learned during the course?
Making money isn't the highest priority. Making customers happy is more important.
Where do you get the tools you use and products you sell?
From stores.
Is your company popular?
When Lasse or Jali are selling.
How hard is it to run a company?
Not hard because it's small and local. The toughest thing is to get the goods to school.
How much do you have to spend your freetime on the company (outside of the schooltime)?
Only when we have to get the goods or when there are events after the school day.
Valtteri Vainio's workshop:
What is your idea?
To make metal products, repairing machines and contract work.
Where did you get your idea?
It's my lifestyle.
Do you do co-operation with other companies and people?
Of course, it's very important for the company's operation.
What have you learned during the course?
I have learned about companies' paperwork and management legislation.
Where do you get the tools you use and products you sell?
I have invented the products myself and they were first made just for my personal use but then I started selling them.
Is your company popular?
I have quite wide range of clients and quite much of snow clearing work and machine maintenance.
How hard is it to run a company?
I have much work but I like it so it isn't hard.
How much do you have to spend your freetime on the company (outside of the schooltime)?
This is my lifestyle, so pretty much. The company runs completely in my freetime.
Halukiosk (Jali Närhi):
What is your idea?
To sell goods to students at kiosk.
Where did you get your idea?
Just made up something students would buy.
Do you do co-operation with other companies and people?
Stores and wholesales.
What have you learned during the course?
Making money isn't the highest priority. Making customers happy is more important.
Where do you get the tools you use and products you sell?
From stores.
Is your company popular?
When Lasse or Jali are selling.
How hard is it to run a company?
Not hard because it's small and local. The toughest thing is to get the goods to school.
How much do you have to spend your freetime on the company (outside of the schooltime)?
Only when we have to get the goods or when there are events after the school day.
Valtteri Vainio's workshop:
What is your idea?
To make metal products, repairing machines and contract work.
Where did you get your idea?
It's my lifestyle.
Do you do co-operation with other companies and people?
Of course, it's very important for the company's operation.
What have you learned during the course?
I have learned about companies' paperwork and management legislation.
Where do you get the tools you use and products you sell?
I have invented the products myself and they were first made just for my personal use but then I started selling them.
Is your company popular?
I have quite wide range of clients and quite much of snow clearing work and machine maintenance.
How hard is it to run a company?
I have much work but I like it so it isn't hard.
How much do you have to spend your freetime on the company (outside of the schooltime)?
This is my lifestyle, so pretty much. The company runs completely in my freetime.