My story on how did I become an entrepreneur

1. HOW TO BECOME AN
ENTREPRENEUR BY ACCIDENT
Entrepreneurship Tuesday
Ville Simola

2. When I was a kid…

3. My dream job was to become a
movie director…

4. …or a football manager

5. ..but I loved making profit by
trading Donald Duck cartoons

6. When I was a teenager..

7. I fell in love with computers…

8. …and coded my first website

9. …but ended up producing and
selling strong home-made brew

10. When I went to University..

11. At first, I felt completely lost…

12. …then I saw an opportunity in
selling fireworks

13. …which helped me to find
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society

14. After joining Aaltoes..

15. I build a network of 1000+
professionals

16. I helped to create summer jobs
for 40 students…

17. …and continued to create 50+
companies

18. After helping others I felt now
it’s time to do my own stuff..

19. So you can call me a serial
entrepeneur nowadays…

20. Since I’ve build one of the first
crowd funding platforms in Finland
called Kiririnki

21. I’m working with a health startup
Checkmylevel that has raised 2M+ in
funding

22. Together with a team of young
coaches setting up the biggest
football conference in the Nordics
called Arctic Football Forum

23. Running my own consulting
company (If I have time) 

24. I’m living the life of an
entrepreneur… and I LOVE IT!

25. Lessons learned

26. Lesson #1:
Start doing stuff when you are
young

27. Lesson #2:
Do not get disappointed even if your
plans don’t go like planned

28. Lesson #3:
Get to know people

29. Lesson #4:
Pay it forward

30. Lesson #5:
Just do (great) stuff