I2 Network LLC

Running a one-man show on a mission to improvise, invent & improve software concepts, products, and businesses for tech startups, design agencies, and other interesting enterprises. CTO-as-a-Service for prototyping, product development, consultancy, research, and patenting services in the field of Virtual Reality (VR) and Extended Reality (XR) technologies (currently called 'metaverse'). Let me know your business idea and I will develop the software product needed to make it happen. 😁
www.i2-network.com

Top-rated freelancer on Upwork since its birth with a flawless track record of delivering high-speed VR/XR software R&D projects for a global client base ranging from The Arctic Circle to Sydney, Tokyo to Silicon Valley.

Founder, Independent AR/XR/VR CTO-for-hire, Inventor, Consultant, Coach

CoachLancer

After
- 10 years of full-time freelancing
- 10X’ing my rates starting from $30 per hour (yes, to $300)
- 7 years of coaching freelancers
- 5 years of blogging about freelancing
- 70 original articles on freelancing
- 200 weekly freelancer polls
- 1,500 LinkedIn posts
- 3,653 morning coconuts
finally, I packaged everything I’ve ever learned about freelancing and Upwork into a book: ‘Go Straight for Coconuts, Part 1: How to Start Freelancing Without Ever Working for Peanuts’. 🥥🤑🥥

The core is my highly efficient approach to using Upwork as a shortcut for building a global freelance business from scratch.

With a print page count 453(!!!), this total value bomb is more than just a manual for navigating freelance platforms—it’s a manifesto for redefining your value and building a highly profitable niche.

With the price of two-thirds of Upwork 100 Connects, you can get my book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXNRXDJM

Founder, Coach and Mentor of Freelance Software Professionals

JidoBox Pte Ltd

Developing the world's first actually easy accounting and bookkeeping service for creative professionals/small business owners. The company made a successful pivot in 2017.

Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder

Move Correctly

Took care of all software development, short and long-term technology strategy, release planning, patents, and leadership of all other technical matters in the company. We developed an Augmented Reality (AR)-based automated posture and joint mobility assessment system that we sold to gyms in Singapore. Also, we won a pitch competition organized by Microsoft Ventures Asia in 2014.

Nanyang Technological University

Academic research, applied research, innovations, and strategic patenting at the Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities, a joint research centre of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS).

Senior Research Fellow

Same as below but with a better title. 🤣

Principal Scientist

Assistant research program manager responsible for human-computer interaction and usability research: strategic technology plan, key patent portfolios, evaluation of project ideas, university collaborations, and overall coordination of a 15-person team. Our mission was to develop new ideas for the company's products and businesses to safeguard its future as a Fortune 300 company.

Research Area Coordinator

Various research projects and project management on wearable/ubiquitous computing, user-centered design processes, usability/user experience, human-robot interaction, and information visualization. Responsible for research methodology in the team.

R&D Scientist

University of Oulu

Teaching and research at the Department of Information Processing Science. Planning of research projects and an international doctoral program, supervision, and review of master and bachelor theses, and teaching of programming exercises. Taught Java programming and data structures.

Assistant Professor

Kyoto University

Part-time tutoring of master-level students about virtual reality technologies within the curricula of the Graduate School of Informatics while I was doing my Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Project researcher at the Department of Information Processing Science designing mobile augmented reality user interfaces for a classroom teaching scenario. Also participated in the mobile worker support environments (MOSAIC) EU project and many of its international seminar meetings.

Researcher

Sysart Oy

Development of a feedback and workflow management system Requeste in a development team of 3-4 software developers, part-time during school seasons, full-time otherwise. Functional and architectural specification, implementation, and testing of the software. Interestingly, the software is still sold in Finland today: requeste.com

Software Engineer

Developing Tech & IP for VR/XR/AI Startups // Coaching First-Time Startup CTOs // Mentoring Freelancers to Go For Coconuts

What if you could ESCAPE the fate of most people: working years for PEANUTS without reaching your true potential?

Use CocoLord’s career shortcuts to live the life you actually want! 😎

“CocoLord”… “shortcuts”, ridiculous, huh? 🥥🙈🥥

It’s no BS, actually.

Here’s a summary of what SHORTCUTS I took to get to the sweet coconut-filled lifestyle I now lead:

✌ When doing my Master’s, I passed the hardest course in 33 hours. Others spent 200. I saved 167 hours which I spent on becoming a better programmer at work. And I’ve been obsessed with finding shortcuts ever since.

✌ I went for a Ph.D. because why not? My seniors spent 7–8 years doing theirs because of funding issues. I fought for 1 month to get a full scholarship to study at the prestige Kyoto University. Started 9 months later and finished the whole thing in 3 years. Saved 4.

✌ After that, at 29, I could have gone anywhere. ABB Sweden was a brilliant choice as that organization allowed me to career-rocket straight to the top. In less than 4 years, I had 4 roles, the top being Asst. Program Manager/Principal Scientist reporting to the guy who reports to the CTO of that Fortune 300 company group. I was 32.

✌ When moving to Singapore at 33, I thought of running my own venture. I had the brains but not the business skills. I joined NTU’s innovation center for a year and a crazy tech startup for another. Learned how the startup ecosystem works.

✌ As I just turned 36, I realized my dream. Moved to Malaysia, and started my CTO-as-a-Service for tech startups. Struggled for the first 6 months because of poor business skills, but found a smart workaround by utilizing Upwork. Got clients from Silicon Valley for whom I built IP/patents, prototypes, and entire products. Came to dominate my niche within 1 year. I WENT STRAIGHT FOR COCONUTS from the start of my new freelance career.

✌ Later, my scientist instincts kicked in. I started sharing everything I learned about freelancing. I founded CoachLancer.com, and Upwork started to feature me in their community forum, blog, and Upwork LIVE talks. So, besides being a serial startup CTO, I became a professional coach, CocoLord. And wrote a mile-long guidebook for my 10th business anniversary.


Here’s what I do now:

👨‍💼 If you’re an EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL, I can help you become the DOMINANT FREELANCER in your field—globally.
Go to: CoachLancer.com

🚀 If you’re a STARTUP FOUNDER, I can:
 a) Coach your young technical cofounder to grasp the non-technical aspect of the job
 b) Get your R&D going as a CTO
Go to: I2-Network.com


Let’s go find YOUR SHORTCUT! 😉

Instead of complaining about #inflation and rising prices, maybe you want to do what the “Big Boys” do?!? 𝐉𝐏𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 & 𝐂𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 #gold 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐄!

Most people think you need to #rich to do amazing moves with your savings and personal #wealthmanagement in general.

YOU DON’T!

Think about it. Consider this:

If you want to be a professional tennis player, you don’t start practicing when you win at Wimbledon.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫!!!

A decade earlier!!!

Same thing here. Why would you start #investing the little savings you have managed to accumulate if you think you’d need to be RICH to invest???

It makes no sense!

Here are some personal examples:

1. JPMorgan is incorporated in Delaware. So is my #business (100% remotely operated, and a totally different field).

2. JPMorgan recommends gold as a hedge against turbulent times. So do I. We’re seeing All-Time Highs all the time! 🤪

3. JPMorgan does its gold stuff in Singapore. So do I. (The safest place on Earth for this stuff, probably.)

The exact quote was:
“𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘥𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 2025 𝘢𝘯𝘥 2026.”

If you have $100 extra, don’t put it in your savings account to rot. Do something smarter… like “Big Boys.”

Want a little friendly push? I show you exactly how to do this, even if you’re completely new to this...

🏝Mikko J.🥥 Rissanen🏝

Multi-Income Mindset = Freedom 🥥🏝️🥥 Helping Solopreneurs/Founders Validate Startup Ideas, Create Defensible IP, and Secure Wealth with Gold & Silver

𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 my #Facebook profile! 😱


…1 day after my KokoKid’s first birthday. 🤣

Last login: 366 days.

Yeah. 😂

The reason should be obvious. 😆👼😍

That happened over a decade ago.

But even on the day of deletion, I can’t really remember what I did on FB.

The ONLY thing I remember is that my school buddy/neighbor/floorball team mate was posting and commenting on people’s walls ALL THE TIME… roping in everyone to reply to him. Blaaah. 🙈

Apparently, he had nothing better to do. 🙃

Can’t say I miss it. 😇

#LinkedIn is at least a little bit useful for #work. So, this thing takes all the bandwidth I have for #socialmedia in general.

Here’s a little tip. And know that this is from someone who joined Facebook when it was new, and from someone who joined LinkedIn when it was new:

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 #life!! ♥️

Find that life partner! Make those babies! Do your hobbies! Build that #business just for the fun of it! Climb that tree. Eat those #coconuts! THAT’s an ORDER! 🥥😋🥥

GOT IT?


(DISCLAIMER: This post was scheduled. On Monday, I’ll reply to both of the comments this post gets... busy climbing a hill today.)

We’re living the last times when we can see 50-something-dollar #silver. 😳

As the paper market is collapsing, physical silver starts a phase called Price Discovery.

That’s when the #markets tell exactly what the REAL price is going to be by the logic of supply and demand.

No manipulation. And the supply has been below the demand for 6 years in a row, now.

And looking at the price chart, we can tell Price Discovery started right now.

CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, halted trading because of #silvershortage yesterday.

These houses of cards start coming down one by one.

Everyone HOLDING silver will keep on holding. Or buying more, if they can still find it.

Experts expect 3-digit prices next year.

#Smartmoney is flowing to silver as we speak.

99.99% of the people will miss the whole #opportunity.

Maybe get some? We simply don’t have enough for everybody. 😉

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