We are really excited about the next Aaltoes Pitch it., on April 26, at the Aalto Venture Garage. Again, we have a great line-up of teams and noteworthy jury aboard. The night will be a great  great opportunity to get feedback, find funding for your startup and get it on the map. Check out our jury:     Elina Lepomäki, Libera Elina … Continue reading

We are excited to give you a sneak preview of Aalto Ventures Program, a new minor program for all master students in Aalto University. AVP kicks off in September 2012 with a keynote series Changemakers, which brings experienced entrepreneurs and thought leaders to share their insights with aspiring entrepreneurs. Aalto Ventures Program is all about inspiration, insights and experience. See … Continue reading

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

This week I was participating in the BASES E-Bootcamp at Stanford with Juho, DH, Kristo and Claudio and it was a blast. Here are couple of random points and lessons learned. Unfortunately due to time constraints, it isn’t very organized, so apologies for that. However, as we yet again learned, the most important thing is to have something out for … Continue reading

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

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

Full house, as always! This time Pitch it. revolved around three key areas; travel, learning / education and healthcare and was themed strongly around very early stage teams. Around 100 people arrived to Aalto Venture Garage to hear nine teams pitch their ideas in front of the experienced jury. We heard pitches from: Citizen – A social marketplace with small … Continue reading

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

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

Aaltoes Pitch it., on March 29, is a great opportunity to get feedback, find funding for your startup and get it on the map. The open mic session is perfect for getting initial feedback for ideas. Check out our jury: Oskari Lehtonen, Koppi | Catch Oskari is a partner at Koppi | Catch, one of the Vigo accelerators. He is a serial entrepreneur … Continue reading

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

It’s been a week since we landed back in Finland from our visit to the wild wild US. We want to wrap up some of the major points from our time across the ocean. This post is by Tomas and Lauri, the newest Aaltoes members. It’s a lengthy read, but full of substance,  so grab a cup of something and sit … Continue reading

Last Friday sixty eager Crawlers visited six sweet startup offices around the city center of Helsinki. Startup Crawl was a perfect after-work event: all startups were well-prepared and enthusiastic to welcome the groups of Crawlers. We saw cool presentations, innovative refreshments and really neat offices. … The evening’s high point was the after party at Helmi, where we had a few … Continue reading

So the last three days of SXSWi are now behind us. These days went by much as the other days spent over in Austin, TX: rapidly and filled with exciting and useful content and encounters. There was of course still the opportunity to make some new connections – and we did! The trade show opened up on Monday and Aaltoes … Continue reading

(And remember all of it in the next morning) We started from the realization that in most of the Finnish networking events, a big part of the attendees just end up talking with small groups of people they already know. One of the best cures for this has traditionally been free alcohol, but that approach has its own problems. Especially if … Continue reading