Kasvun kiitorata™ (R2G Day) is a product of GVL's to assist entrepreneurs with their growth strategy. This full day workshop brings together approximately six ventures to rotate among several growth-oriented service providers (marketing, legal, finance, ICT, HR, accounting etc.) to gain a much deeper understanding of how to holistically grow their business. True to the GVL spirit of co-creation, each venture group consists of an entrepreneur, co-entrepreneur, student and faculty member for enhanced learning opportunities.

The participating parties - entrepreneurs, co-entrepreneurs, service providers - generally have had good experiences at the R2G events, and the benefits od these events are tangible especially to the companies and entrepreneurs who take part in the day as “cases to be developed”. An exceptionally fruitful example of this comes from Niko Järvinen, an entrepreneur and also a student in GVL. Niko took part in R2G through his own company; that his company was chosen to attend was an honor to him, Niko says, because all the other companies were really big.

"I can say that that day really blew my mind away," Niko says. "At best, the situation was that five people were sitting across the table and each of them was firing questions at me, questions which I would have never thought of as a new entrepreneur." During the day, as Niko recollects, he learned a huge amount of new things, perhaps more than he had learned in all his university courses put together. "I cannot quite put my finger on it, but if six different specialist companies use 45 minutes on me and my company, words cannot describe how much I can learn from them," says Niko.

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