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[Ebootcamp] How It All Ended
Ebootcamp gave me a serious indigestion problem. You know too many lessons can kill people. What a tremendous source of inspiration(I am not exaggerating!) Anyway here are the three most crucial lessons that I hand-picked to share with you guys. I tried not to overlap with Lauri’s points. 1. Dualistic approach: be smart and optimistic Vinod khosla was after all … Continue reading
Every Road Leads to Startups
I and DH had the honor to lead the startup tours organized for the international E-Bootcampers. So both Wednesday and Thursday the basic rhythm of waking up before 6am and going to bed around 2am went on. Even though having been several times to the Bay Area, it (once again) definitely had something new to offer. Tesla, making electric cars without … Continue reading
Back to the Bootcamp
A few weeks ago two Aaltoes guys, Juho and DH, got a mission: to join E-bootcamp and help out the organizers of the event as a partner. Although it was such a creepy idea to go back to bootcamp once again – we’ve already served 3 years in total in military – we quickly sensed that it’s going to be … Continue reading
Summer as a Turning Point
This is a guest post by Hanna Toivonen & Kiki Ylimutka, both Summer of Startups alumni from last year. The original post can be read here. Summer of Startups, the Y-Combinator -like Start-up accelerator program of Finland, selected us and 10 other teams from 74 Finnish and international teams. For 10 weeks our idea and us were kicked, crunched and … Continue reading
Lessons Learned from SoS
This is a guest post by Alexey Solomatin (August 6, 2011), a Summer of Startups alumni from last year. You can read the original post here in English and here in Russian. Your idea isn’t that unique and there are competitors. No matter how genius you are, it isn’t exactly true. Even the most innovative idea, had been attempted to … Continue reading
The Summer that Changed My Life
This is a guest post by Claudio Camacho, a Summer of Startups alumni from last year. Melting snow, +5 degrees, sunny mornings and lots, lots of fresh ideas. It has been exactly one year since I applied to the Summer of Startups program, and it will be difficult to explain, in words, how much my life has changed ever since. … Continue reading
Seeing Sites and Sightseeing
Saturday – last day in Cali. A day for visiting as many interesting places as possible, a day for reflection and a day for dreaming. We started the day off with a “pilgrimage” to Google and Facebook. It was lame. Neither one let us in (perhaps because it was Saturday and they had no idea we were coming) but at … Continue reading
A Date in a Sauna
Morning coffee with Forrest from STVP in Coupa Café further clarified some of our thoughts from yesterday. A more detailed discussion about the Mayfield Fellows program further convinced us that this is something that could be implemented in Aalto. It doesn’t require a lot of resources and should definitely be integrated with the upcoming curriculum. After meeting with Forrest we … Continue reading
Stanford. Wow.
The conference being over, we rented a car and headed south towards Palo Alto and Stanford. First of all, the change of venue was more than welcome and we all felt alive again as we drove along the highway in the sunshine. None of us really knew what to expect from the Stanford campus, but as we pulled up to … Continue reading
Super Angels, Super Startups, Super Tired
Today was the last day of the conference. Things were sort of winding down as it seemed there were fewer attendees, but the finals of Startup Battlefield attracted lots of attention. Prior to this, however, there was a panel with angel investors that left a lasting mark on all of us. What is a super angel? Among the panelists was … Continue reading
The ‘Toilet Queue Pitch’ is the New ‘Elevator Pitch’
As the sun set on our third day, the Startup Sauna pitch has been crunched to a 10 second package. What began as an elaborate explanation of “what we do” has been condensed into something compact, quickly explained in the toilet queue – true story. The lesson here is: pitching a ridiculous amount of times makes you realize what your … Continue reading
Pitching, Perspective and Positive Experiences
After just a few hours sleep, ignoring the jet lag, we spent most of the day at the conference pitching Startup Life to about 80 startups and Startup Sauna to 10ish VC`s. Generally, the feedback was great and it seems our region is able to generate some traction at the moment. Startup Life was particularly well received generating lots of … Continue reading
4 Aaltoes Team Members Attending TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 in San Francisco
A few days ago the Aaltoes team made a quick decision: Nippe, Juhana, Juho and Riku will attend TC Disrupt on Sep 12th-14th. We were lucky to have Ramine coach us “a bit“ yesterday. The four hour session included so much new information to remember, advice, tips and hints that I don’t actually remember the last time I’ve felt that overwhelmed. Still, I had … Continue reading
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