When an entrepreneur’s situation in life changes, the company’s market conditions turn down and there is no one to continue the business – either in the family, among the employees or outside the company – then the company must be brought to a respectable close, taking care to do it properly.

Many business owners who are just starting out are uncertain about how best to handle their company’s financial affairs. Should they outsource their bookkeeping and calculation of salaries or do it themselves? Should they adopt bookkeeping and invoicing software or settle for the traditional paper version at first?

To celebrate the jubilee year of the Kvarken World Heritage Site, the Finnish broadcasting company Yle’s radio stations YLE Radio Suomi and Radio Vega broadcast from the 13th to the 19th of June from a studio built in the Café Salteriet’s facilities. The owner of Café Salteriet, Gunilla Sandler, is very happy with the visibility this afforded the Kvarken region.

You are trying to find a service business provider through the internet. The search engine lists tons of pages with result on your search word but they are located mainly outside your home region. Sounds familiar?

Visibility and availability are important for all enterprises but essential for starting enterprises, who need to find customers and make their way to the markets. In the digital era, visibility and availability through the internet, e-mail, phone, and increasingly the social media, have become even more central.

How often in your everyday life have you come across a product that, with a little something different, would be much better? Most of us simply shrug our shoulders and keep on going without thinking any more about it.

Vaasa Region Enterprise Agency Startia gives guidance to persons planning to start a business in the Vaasa region. The service is free of charge and made possible by a number of expert organizations working in collaboration with Startia.

The port manager of Kvarken Ports, which is owned jointly by Vaasa and Umeå, has no time to get bored at work due to his diverse job description. What makes his job even more interesting is the fact that the port company functions physically in two countries.

The expert organisations in education, Rastor, VAKK (professional education centre for adults) and YA! Vocational College of Ostrobothnia, offer entrepreneurs training, most of which leads to a qualification and all of which will help entrepreneurs to complement their skill set. All three of these partners organise, for example, training that leads to a further vocational qualification for entrepreneurs, or equips them for managing a company, as well as other vocational training.