What a week! Unraveling the Valley secrets, workshopping and visiting places, we’re all but out of energy. There’s a lot bubbling under, but here’s a short wrap-up of the feelings after the trip. “A lot of enthusiasm, new ideas and lessons on entrepreneurial life philosophy. I feel like I have grown as a person and that I’m now ready to …

Come listen to Skype co-founder & former CEO Niklas Zennström talk about building game changing businesses! Niklas Zennström is an entrepreneur and investor, who has co-founded and managed a series of high-profile technology companies including Skype, Kazaa, Joost and Joltid. The event will start at 4 PM with an open pitching competition. The best pitch will receive a place to …

Aaltoes is looking for board & team 2011. The chairman that will lead the formation of the new board will be selected on November 23rd at 17.00 in Garage. The actual board will be elected on December 7th. We’ll be organising a Q&A type of casual event on one of the forthcoming weeks on what it means to be a team …

The whole group started its day by eating waffles in a pier overlooking the beautiful bay. Thanks for our hosts at StartupDigest and TrueVentures. Greetings to Pingpin & Jyri from them. Day was all about co-working spaces and startups in them. We had eight meetings throughout the day  - and almost everyone made it to the end! Kicklabs had the …

Vote your favourite picture in the comments with the number #1 –  #6. Among the commentors, we’ll draw one lucky winner of Tony Hsieh – Delivering happiness. The winners will be announced a week from now, on Sunday 7th November. For the winners – infinite fame and some other prizes! Entry #1 Door of men’s room at Buck’s by @Finn_will …

The San Francisco Giants may have won their first game of the world series, but a group of Finnish entrepreneurs also felt like winners after meeting James Cameron and Eric Schmidt at the Churchill Club event on Wednesday. James Cameron the greatest director of our times and Eric Schmidt the head of the greatest technologies of Google sat down in …

Ville-Kalle felt that it was the “talk to people and try to listen and understand what they are saying”-day. Everyone was buffed about the bad internet and bad logistics  - otherwise it has been – for the lack of a better word – an AWESOME trip. Garage had quite the media day with Silicon Angle and meeting Robert Scoble. Space …

Half-way through the week the sticker competition has received three extraordinary entries: Door of men’s room at Buck’s by @Finn_will Garage sticker featured with Miika and MC Hammer by Miika, @olligunst and @smola Robert Scoble and camera stand by @kristoovaska and @9rd If you’re lacking stickers or want to submit entries from other countries, tweet #aaltoes & we’ll see what …

What happened Tuesday 25th? Mighty Eagle declared that Finland is no longer the land of Nokia, but the land of Angry Birds. Nowadays Dealmachine is the Angry Birds of CRM. Mighty Eagle went on answering Natalie‘s question on jet lag: he doesn’t do it. Ville-Kalle showed us the correct way of cocktail party networking. Kristo’s new favourite quote, told by …

Lari and Santeri ate lunch with @vlaskovits and discussed Customer Development, but mostly Finland Linda almost hyperventilated while meeting Steve Blank. Kristo almost followed Steve to the toilet. Ramine had a chat with Robert Scoble (again!) Tribe Studios attended Failcon, met with Paul Bragiel and networked at the VIP kick-off for Play Digital Media conference organized in KickLabs. They got …

Finland Night (FREE): Angry Birds + Aalto Venture Garage Place: PariSoma - 1436 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103 - http://www.parisoma.com/ Time: 6:30PM Finland is invading the Valley! Come and hear great Nordic stories: – Peter Vesterbacka (Mighty Eagle at Rovio) will talk about Angry Bird’s success story – Ilja Laurs (CEO at GetJar) will talk about how the game crashed their app store …

Here are the startups traveling with us in Silicon Valley during the week. These are the startups from the Y-Combinator of Finland, Aalto Venture Garage. They are graduates of Bootcamp and Summer of Startups that represent the best early-stage startups of Baltics. Startups Deal Machine DealMachine makes sales more exciting for sales teams in SME companies by using game mechanics …

The loose theme for the day is Stanford and how the student activities build the grassroots necessary for the rest of the ecosystem. With the BASES 150K kick-off & ASES meeting fresh in mind, we’ll cover the various student activities around campus. The schedule is pretty loose and there’s room to explore solo the campus. While on campus, try running …

With our recent FailDay what would be more appropriate than kicking of the Valley week with a whole day of celebrating failure! FailCon gathers the best entrepreneurs to share their lessons learned on the theme of failures, obstacles and making them work for you. Continuing from that we have invited Gagan Biyani to tell his story of how a first …

Proud day for the Aaltoes Community with Slush7 pitching competition! Two of the three winners of the Slush7 competition come from our very own Garage. We’ve seen them work through the summer and fall – and hope to see them burn that midnight oil also in the future. Exiting times for both of the companies as we are heading with …