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Design Factory is the place to be this weekend. Talkoot started today with a bang.  This morning, the teams participating in Talktoot gave their companies’ pitches to the audience.  During the day, the teams will get to develop their ideas with the help of experience entrepreneurs, students and YOU. All teams need feedback – good, bad or even neutral since …

We are in the process of seriously using the delete button on some of our pages of the Website.  Yes, ladies and gentleman, Aaltoes declares that Spring time is here and it’s time to clean our website.  Don’t be alarm if you can’t find a page- we are just making things clearer and simpler. What’s new, you may ask? Well, …

What a night! Great speakers, great atmosphere, great venue (after the lightman worked his magic) and great people! Aaltoes spent a great night with startups on 6.3. on the 6th floor of the KY-building. Teemu Seppälä presented the Tuli-fund, start-ups gave a look into their companies and lives and offered advice and the audience listened, discussed and consumed food and …

After sharing his story and his experiences on thursday Tuli Talk, Tuomo von Lerber offers 3 advices for the entrepreneur.  1. Be humble – Be open to the suggestions and ideas of others, they bring different experiences and may help you in the process. 2. Hire a great team – Have people on your team that are better than you …

If you want to get your team on the highway of success and ensure that your start-up gets on the right foot make sure you apply now. The team that is the most successful will get coaching from Vigos, up to €55K funding from Tuli program and a physical space to work in for six months in the prominent Aalto …

Aalto Entrepreneurship Society will have an elevator pitch competition in New Wave 2010 event March 18th will be a very entrepreneurial day, since New Wave 2010 event is taking place in Aalto Ventures Garage, Otaniemi. Among other things – such as MADVENTURES, Petri Kähkönen, Golla, SEOS, Futurice, Zipipop etc. – Aalto Entrepreneurship Society will host an elevator pitch competition with …

It’s been a busy start to the year for us here at Aaltoes. We’ve run through the first two stages of the Venture Track and are now closing in on the Aaltoes Startup Talkoot, the weekend-long event where ideas get down and dirty and are developed further. Before this we still have a series of events, so it’s not going …

If you managed to miss the event last year, Mobile Dev Camp is a free, volunteer run, event about mobile development and design. Last year they gathered nearly 150 hackers, designers and mobile enthusiasts to Vanha and this year we are building something bigger and better.  The event site is http://www.mobiledevcamp.fi and the Facebook event page is http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200478488997 Mobile Dev …

Design Factory was busy on 2.2: three halls full of start-ups and an interested crowd tends to have that effect! The Fair crowd consisted of students, VC’s, media, the academic community and of course dozens of start-ups. Visitors had the chance to meet the entrepreneurs in the companies, discuss the companies’ future direction, plan joint ventures and share contacts. Aalto …

Pier Abetti’s course Creation of Innovative SME’s has accelerated some very familiar companies for Aaltoes people. Powerkiss, A21 Cocktail Lounge, SEOS and Selki Fabrik all originate from the course. This spring, a new set of students will have the possibility to kick-start their ideas. – The main objective of the course is to teach participants the critical process of new …

EU’s Committee of the Regions awarded Helsinki-Uusimaa region as one of the three most entrepreneurial regions in Europe. The award was given for year 2012. Aaltoes was in key role in the application. The video was made by Aaltoes actives (with support of OUBS) by request of Aalto administration.

Aaltoes was privileged to host Hannu Verkasalo, serial entrepreneur and founder at Zokem Ltd., this Thursday at the Aalto Ventures Park in Otaniemi. This was the first of the Aaltoes Tuli Talk series, a monthly event dedicated to hearing the stories of entrepreneurs with a research background. Antti Aarnio from the Tuli program was on hand to open the event …

We’ve been working on Aaltoes development today with the new and former boards of Aaltoes and active team-members. We’d love to have feedback from everyone reading this, so please comment!

We have just wrapped up our first week back after the Winter Break. Drinks, pizza and pitching – the very first Aaltoes Open Mic gathered some 40 people to share their ideas and build upon others. Jens Sorensen and Ville Simola opened the event with a brief introduction to Aaltoes and idea generation from Steve Sammartino. The lively discussion in …