Kristo Ovaska,  who just got back from Israel hours before the event, started off the evening by giving  the audience one advice: “Get out of Finland to get experience,  but then come back!”

After spending a week in Isreal, the Finnish delegation, consisting of Bootcamp team winners  and the Aaltovg team, realized that there is no reason why Finland can’t become the next Startup Nation -Tom Keller from TechStars could not agree more: “One thing that is wrong with the Finnish startup ecosystem: that people think that there is something wrong with it.  Quit thinking that you suck and stop having a complex!”  orders Keller.

Tom Keller noticed  that Helsinki looks like Boulder, Colorado, the home of Techstars, did a few years ago. Keller started his presentation by taking a page from Ramine Darabiha’s blog written a couple of weeks ago;  The 10 Challenges of the Finnish Startups Ecosystems.

There is no doubt that Finland can become the next startup Nation; In the past 2 years, Finland has came a very long way and with the right attitude and mentoring, Finland could be unstoppable.

As Ramine pointed out: Here we are in the middle of the forest in the rain, and a 100 people show up at Aalto Venture Garage. Big thanks for all attendees –let’s create an ecosystem that shoots for the stars!