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Build It completed! Final demos over and out.
Build It, the hackathon that started on Friday evening concluded on Sunday evening with an open-to-public demo session. The gathering was a chance for the teams to share their prototypes, pivots and lessons learned from the weekend. Community services trending at Build It Out of the 16 teams pitching in the final demo session, quite a few focused on delivering … Continue reading
60 Minutes till the end of Build It
The Build It weekend hackathon has been a lot of fun and brought in dozens of cool people to Garage. Here’s a collection of moments and interactions in a format friendly to modern day humans, in tweets and pics. Friday Afternoon: Calm before the storm and excitement in the air. No sleep tonight! Doors soon open, see you all here! … Continue reading
Build It: “We are under development”
With Build It approaching the 24th hour, we’re taking a look at the teams’ progress. As expected in a hackathon, some of the projects overlap, giving the teams an excellent opportunity to find synergies during the second and final day. Helpful advice on how to go about the final day remaining can be found from this blogpost by Ramine Darabiha. Good … Continue reading
Aaltoes Build It: Power building at Garage this weekend
Aaltoes Build It, a weekend rapid prototyping madness, started on Friday with some 80 hackathon enthusiasts. First on the agenda, Raido Pikkar gives a glimpse of life post Build It: Acceleration programs like Wiseguys might be a good option to keep up the startup-to-be’s momentum after the weekend. After that, Petri Vilen came on stage to set the mood and talked … Continue reading
MUST SEE PICTURES! How many gym class heros are needed to move a locker?
Update from the Garage! Preparing for upcoming events like Build It and Startup Sauna spring batch, we are finding bits and pieces to fix around here. Today’s excitement came from putting in place a row of lockers. From now on, you can get a personal locker where to leave valuables. The process in pictures, starring Juho and Lauri: 1) A … Continue reading
Aaltoes Build It: Get a team and make it happen!
Is one weekend enough to build a product? Surely it’s not enough to think through all the details and fine prints but it’s definitely enough to get the ball rolling and deliver a first prototype. We guarantee that in some two days, backed up with a skilled team and an inspiring community, you can achieve so much more that you … Continue reading
Startup Life: I’m starving among these tea-drinking non-eating hippies!
With a few more weeks to go to apply for an internship via Startup Life, we decided to cross-post some sights and sounds from Pekka’s first impressions of working at Ditto and life in the flower city. Usually I’m both starving and lacking caffeine by the lunch time, which is around one o’clock. They’re all nice people, though. I’m just … Continue reading
TEDxAaltoUniversity hits the campus on Feb 28th
TEDxAaltoUniversity hosts their first event in Finland! February 29th 18:00 in Design Factory TEDxAalto presents a live webcast from TED 2012 Global event in California. Inspiring talks, TEDx atmosphere and additional surprise programme. The event is open for everybody, limited seats. Registration: http://bit.ly/ABHYdB More info: www.tedxaalto.com
100 Startups in 2 Days: Looking Back on Slush 2011
The perks of being a small, volunteer-based organization like us include the sometimes slow speed of upload. We’ve finally gone through the ample video material from Slush 2011 and will go through the harvest in the next blogposts. Taking place in early November, Slush Helsinki was a two day conference but most of all a startup expo; we had demo startups in the house that … Continue reading
Trainee @ Creagent
Creagent is building a new solution to provide companies an international interface to acquire all kinds of design competence and services at one place, matching appropriate competence to a certain need with a web-based matching tool. Our aim is to launch the service fully in the spring 2012 when the Finnish design industry is heating up internationally by the World … Continue reading
Welcome to Startup Life 2/2012
This is cross-blogged from the Startup Life website. Read the original post here. We are thrilled to announce the application period for Startup Life batch 2/2012 opened! Last year we kicked off the program by linking students and startups here in Helsinki and Silicon Valley. This year we decided to take on the world and expand the program to four … Continue reading
Software @ Oppifi
You want to create a meaningful web service for the grandparent generation. You want it because they have life experience – memories and stories – to be told, stored and shared. The most valuable asset we have. You are an entrepreneurial minded software expert. You are a person who gets things implemented. You comprehend system design. You want to get … Continue reading
Consulting Sales Specialist / Developer @ Creagent
About Creagent: Creagent provides companies a new international interface to acquire all kinds of design competence and services at one place, matching appropriate competence to a certain need with a web-based matching tool. Our aim is to launch the service fully in the spring 2012 when the Finnish design industry is heating up internationally by the World Design Capital Helsinki … Continue reading
Web/UI Engineer and Manufacturing&Quality Engineer @ Asema
Position #1 : Web/User Interface Software engineer In twenty years from now, people will laugh at the completely ineffective way we are currently using electricity: wasting it because of laziness and paying bills without not even knowing who used what and when. Such stupidity is not sustainable. We and our little planet are increasingly dependent on a change towards smarter … Continue reading
Web developer (project) @ Aalto Venture Garage
As the heat is on and getting hotter all the time, we are looking for someone to develop a completely new site for Aalto Venture Garage and to help us tweak StartupSauna.com further. We are interested in finding someone who understands our mission and is all about execution as we want to launch the new site during Q1/12. So those who’ve not built … Continue reading
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