Aspiring to help and support students and researchers as much as we can, Aaltoes is taking on three different summer programs. On Thursday evening, we held an information session about Summer of Startups, Enternship and Startuplife that quickly turned into a philosophical discussion of what working at a startup is really like. Ville and Karri from Grey Area, Oona from … Continue reading

Last Tuesday (12.4.2011) we had an awesome event called Aaltoes Insight into NFC. The concept was similiar to the Insight-event last fall, but this time we focused on a specific technology called Near Field Communications. To quote from Wikipedia: “Near field communication, or NFC, is a set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distance of 4 cm or less.”…”This … Continue reading

Windows Phone enthusiasts ahoy! Welcome to the very first WinMo-Aalto evening at Aalto Venture Garage, Otaniemi on April 27th, 2011! We wish to bring people interested in Windows Phone and the possibilities it offers together to discuss, learn and share ideas and ambitions. Windows Phone makes for an undoubtedly interesting case study. It is expected to offer a very competitive … Continue reading

Me, Miki and Otto (a new Aaltoes team member and a hacker) decided to pack our bags last Saturday and leave to Silicon Valley for a week on a 48 hour notice. We were supposed to publish a totally different sort of a blog post until something truly awesome came up. Linda and Kristo have been here building the bridge … Continue reading

Apply now for the April 12th event http://aaltovg.com/helsinki/ (deadline is April 9th) Venue: Biomedicum Helsinki 1, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290 Helsinki When : From 9:00am to 5:00pm, April 12th 2011 Startup Sauna, an entrepreneurial program, is looking for the best startup teams in Helsinki. The Startup Sauna is designed to help pre-seed startups to become successful ventures with the coaching of … Continue reading

Mårten Mickos of Eucalyptus, former MySQL visited the Garage yet again last Friday welcomed by a crowd of 150+ attendees. Mårten is a regular visitor at the Garage (read our blogposts from 2009 and 2010) and proved again an honest, insightful lecturer. The crowdsourced topics touch upon teams, getting started and idea validation among others. Watch the whole talk from below: … Continue reading

We’ve had a pretty hectic start for this year and I thought you’d might want to know what’s going on — and also what will be happening in the future. To make it easy for you I decided to write summaries of the first three months. This is going to be a rather long post so get a cup of … Continue reading

Foodie.fm is used by major food-retail chains and brands to create business presence in social media and on-line channels.  For consumers Foodie.fm is a free social shopping service that takes online grocery shopping to a new level by empowering people to consume smarter in a social context. The core of the service is formed of highly personalized food and product recommendations that make … Continue reading

Startups are extremely selective in their hiring. It requires an entirely different set of skills to be successful in a startup than in a large corporation. “Don’t bore me, show me what you built”, says Paul Bragiel, the founder of I/O Ventures. Time is of essence in startups and to be able to run fast, you need to be able … Continue reading

Tonight we are expecting a full house of 1,700 guests for our biggest event yet, Finland Post Welfare. Over a thousand people were wait-listed and unfortunately couldn’t make it, but the discussion will be streamed. The link to the streaming site will be given at the event home page and the event can also be viewed via mobile devices with … Continue reading

We’ve gotten some questions about how you can voice your opinion at our upcoming Finland Post Welfare panel event at Finlandia Hall. So we thought we would write a short post on using Twitter, since with 1700 people attending, we think it will be the best way to gather comments from the audience. We use a Twitter wall at many … Continue reading

Not inspired by a summer job in a corporation? We have something way cooler for you. In summer 2011 startups are everywhere. If you’ve ever wanted to get your hands dirty working with your own idea or intern in a fast-growing startup either in Helsinki or Silicon Valley, this is your year Two years ago everyone wanted to work for … Continue reading

Aaltoes Enternship – An Internship Startup Style! Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is proud to present our first summer entrepreneurial internship program called Enternship. Experience the summer job of a lifetime – 10 weeks in a growing Finnish startup. We’re looking for awesome people – programmers, designers and business developers to work in interesting startups around Helsinki. If you have an entrepreneurial … Continue reading

Finland holds a world record of sorts; the amount of people retiring will shortly exceed the amount of new workforce entering the market, and knowing the dynamics of our welfare society, that inevitably means more public spending on structures like healthcare and pensions, which in turn calls for more private sector jobs to generate new wealth into the society. In … Continue reading

Startups Studio is a strictly relaxed weekly chatter club where the Garage community gathers to meet up and listen to prominent entrepreneurs and investors or rising Helsinki stars. In other words, Startups Studio is an informal getogether organized every Wednesday 6 PM at Aalto Venture Garage. Every week, the evening features one of the coaches, startups, investors or other professionals from … Continue reading