On: Taking Risk

[throwaway2037]

This is an interesting post. Thank you to share your thoughts.

    > Finnish companies have traditionally been good at developing technology and bad at commercializing it.

Can anyone provide some concrete examples?

[nextos → throwaway2037]

Polar and Suunto. Excellent technology, but they were never marketed very well and achieved only moderate success.

One was acquired by a Chinese corporation, the other is in financial trouble.

[hiAndrewQuinn → nextos]

Suunto was a phenomenal company. We just got a guy from Suunto recently at my current workplace and he's incredibly sharp.