Wednesday the 30th of September will a day of celebration. There will be no lectures at TKK, TAIK or HSE. Instead, there will be all-day event, the MIR-festival, the opening of Aalto University for its students. Hundreds of people are coming to the Central Railway Station Square at noon and Aaltoes is there also. We have organisized one of our … Continue reading

Taik, the university of art and design, has been a hard biscuit for Aaltoes. As a Taik student myself, I had my hesitations: we value freedom of expression and independent mind. Continue reading

It’s been a while since we had our last startup visit but we hope that this is worth the wait: on 5.10. we have a possibility to visit Sulake‘s offices! If you’re not familiar with Sulake it’s one of the best known Finnish media companies. They are targeting mainly children and teens with their main products Habbo Hotel and IRC-Galleria. … Continue reading

The startup season is kicking off big time. It’s going to be a busy fall for Aaltoes: we are covering everything from cleantech to jurisdiction, visiting Moscow and San Francisco as well as organizing pitching events and startup evenings. We are also thrilled to see how the entrepreneurial movement is taking off in several Finnish universities. You’ll hear about their … Continue reading

Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is organizing an event for Aalto students, especially Taik students, who are interested in entrepreneurship and startups, on Wednesday 23rd September 17:00-20:00. Four entrepreneurs from the field of design and art will share their experiences and lessons with fellow students. The topic covers from industrial design, new media and fashion design, from the technology innovation to social responsibility. … Continue reading

Freshmen have finally arrived! For one and a half week it’s been a busy time for us, meeting all the new students starting at Aalto University. We participated in Mursumessut, Otasuunnistus and Mursujaiset, showcasing in action the way multi-disciplinary teamwork happens. Continue reading

As some of you might have heard (or read from Twitter) we have been working hard during the past few weeks to develop a new website for Aalto Entrepreneurship Society. Continue reading

Illtags’ missions is to get rid of (or at least reduce) common cold, influenza and other infectious diseases by using the power of social media. Illtags went live last week, without making too much buzz in order to test out the service first. You can start using their service at www.illtags.com. It’s a polished experience with some nifty details. Some … Continue reading

On the 27th of August the student union of Helsinki School of Economics organized a fair for its freshmen at the KY-building. The new students had a full day introduction on the social activities, societies and clubs in the Helsinki School of Economics. AES didn’t want to miss this great opportunity to greet the new students and to present new … Continue reading

There’s an interesting course for all Aalto students interested in making a business out of developed IPR. Here’s a short description and remember that the application deadline is next week’s Thursday. GRR or the Global IPR Realization Race is a course where patents are taken out of dusty cabinets and brought into daylight. VTT offers their most recent patents for … Continue reading

Our friends at StartupHelsinki and ArcticStartup are organizing Open Coffee this week’s Thursday. Open Coffee is casual get-together and networking event held in Bistro Nolla. This time they also have special program as there’s going to be speaker telling about how to apply TEKES funding. It’s a great opportunity if you have a startup seeking funding or just to expand … Continue reading

Six persons of AES have gathered in Örebro campus to take part in Emax Nordic 2009. The event is about young entrepreneurship skills, ideas and making them happen. It collects together 200 young entrepreneurial persons from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Asides lectures, workshops and other cross-Nordic social activities, we participate in a business simulation game. The teams are made … Continue reading

Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is organizing an event together with BASES on October (week 40). The event consists of – among other things – a workshop with Burton Lee. Standford BASES is the student part of Stanford Technology Ventures Program. http://bases.stanford.edu http://www.europeanentrepreneursatstanford.com

The Finnish TV channel, MTV3 had today a short interview with Kristo Ovaska, the chairman of AES on Kymmenen Uutiset. Kristo introduced shortly the concept of AES as an international and interdiscliplinary, student-run entrepreneurship society. The interview is in Finnish and can be watched from Katsomo. -Aku

Group of AES members were visiting Dicole on Yuesday 28th of July 2009. The technology and consultancy specialized start-up was really worth of seeing and the personnel in the company were enthuastic about their work. The CEO of Dicole, Teemu Arina, has priested about Web 2.0 and social communities around the world, and now was the time for our enlightment. … Continue reading