Summer of Startups: “Beg-Borrow-Steal, It’s All About Customers”
27 July 2010 0 Comments
Monday morning guest speaker Ari Backholm hails from Smartner, the turn-of-the-century Finnish startup for mobile email solutions, later sold to Seven in the US. The path, however, was not as straightforward as that: The story meanders from three tech students forming a company, financing the day-to-day with consulting and random projects to bringing in a hired [...]
AudioDraft: Garage Homeboys Go Public
19 July 2010 0 Comments
One of the first Aaltoes startups, AudioDraft, is living an exciting summer at Aalto Venture Garage: the four founders just released their long-awaited Audio Sourcing service -a web-based tool that enables companies to bid on the collaborative audio projects created by AudioDraft’s users, the artists that create music with the Social Audio Sketching Tool. This [...]
Summer of Startups: Validate Your Vision
19 July 2010 0 Comments
Lean startups are currently all the rage in the Finnish community. Marko Taipale, CTO of Huitale opens the third week of Summer of Startups lecturing the teams about agile development. He profiles the most important contemporary thinkers, such as Steve Blank and Eric Ries, and shares some of his company’s favourite learnings from the movement. First up, [...]
Summer of Startups: Silicon Valley Pep Talk
09 July 2010 0 Comments
Pekka Pärnänen from FinNode visited the Garage on Friday morning and offered his insights on doing expat business in Silicon Valley. FinNode, community of Finnish public and non-profit organizations, is a match maker between entrepreneurs in Finland and North America and aims to boost R&D cooperation and business between the continents. Even in the time of the digital, [...]
Summer of Startups: Startup BBQ with JaloHelsinki
08 July 2010 0 Comments
As the second week of Summer of Startups is nearing its end, we started with our weekly summer evening event, Startup BBQ. The theme for these Wednesday gatherings is simple and summer-y: Enjoy some BBQ and refreshments, meet and mingle with the SoS teams and conspire on ways to make Helsinki the next startup city [...]
Summer of Startups: Productivity Boost
05 July 2010 0 Comments
Last Friday, Summer of Startups welcomed researcher, mind trainer Lauri Järvilehto from Filosofian Akatemia to boost up the teams’ productivity during the summer program to ensure we make the most out of it. Summer of Startups is essentially a program by and for us students so a lot of initiative, self-starting attitude and discipline is [...]
What is Aaltoes?
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is student run organization promoting entrepreneurship and helping students and researchers to create world-changing businesses from Aalto University in Finland.
Summer of Startups
An entrepreneurship program by and for entrepreneurial students at the Aalto Venture Garage
- No events
- Streamrex wants to change the media industry – want to join in?
- Microtask is Hiring
- MySites is looking for interns
- AudioDraft is looking for a Web Developer!
- Summer Jobs!
- Foodie.fm is looking for a web developer
- Job: E-Commerce Community Manager
- Zokem is looking for new talent!
- Videolla looking for Early employees/ Co-founders
- Jobs: Widsen is looking for business and product developers
- Events List
- BootCamp
- Startups traveling with us in Silicon Valley
- Eric Ries is coming to Finland - Win tickets
- "Shoot for the stars!" - Afternoon with Mårten
- Update from Aaltoes Development Weekend
- Aaltoes gets a new home
- Garage goes Startup Lessons Learned on Wednesday
- 6 hours to go
- Emotions of an Entrepreneur