Bannana in Boston: Fortune, After All

By Martti Vallila

A tipping point on the road I hoped would transform an outsider into a millionaire occurred at a lunch in a restaurant on the Boston waterfront silhouetted in the cover photo. A member of Boston's oldest Intellectual property firm was introducing me to investors in a position to support the commercialization of disruptive technologies (described in the appendix). I hurried to the surprise meeting from a grand jury room where I was serving on the "right side" of US law, benefitting from my experience as a convicted criminal in Finland, my father's country. Having arrived in Boston shortly before the Marathon bombing, it took forever to fund companies I had formed based on technologies I had found in Russia, while I continued legal battles in Finland.This "Bannana book" tells the story of how I reached numerous "tipping points", and fortune. It includes reflections on the deterioration of US-Russian relations from the moment Yeltsin literally put his heart into the hands of American surgeons, and provides thoughts on how relations between the two countries may be improved by "bottom-up" collaborations on technology commercialization, for which Boston is in a position of "comparative advantage".The book ends in Washington DC, outside the Trump White House, in a scene worthy of a movie that proves that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction, and that no good deed goes unpunished.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1484832906
• ISBN13: 9781484832905
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"