A month back Aaltoes hosted a recap session on the legendary Silicon Valley Tour. We heard some of the entrepreneurs traveling with us share their key insights from the trip. Now the videos are uploaded, so if you want to hear the ideas that arose from visiting the number one entrepreneurial hotspot of the world, visit the links below:

Aaltoes Lessons Learned in Silicon Valley: MySites & Ramine Darabiha
Aaltoes Lessons Learned from Silicon Valley: Widsen & Markus Nuotto
Aaltoes Lessons Learned in Silicon Valley: Qvik & Elias Pietilä
Aaltoes Lessons Learned in Silicon Valley: Futuuns & Kimmo Nurmisto
Aaltoes Lessons Learned in Silicon Valley: Nodeta & Mikael Roos and Otto Hilska

If you want to read more about the journey, revisit the blogposts from Aaltoes, Arctic Startup and Futuuns. We also made some ad hoc interviews which you can see here (including names such as Mårten Mickos, Zynga-founder Mark Pincus, Paul Graham etc.)

Next year is right around the corner and we have some initial plans of heading to Israel, China and maybe revisiting Silicon Valley. If you have suggestions where to go and what to see, don’t hesitate to contact the new board!

- Obviously it feels good! To be chosen to top five from 227 participants is an outstanding result for us. The win gives us more confidence and works as a great motivator to the business plan phase of the competition, summarizes Kimmo Nurmisto from Futuuns.

Other winning projects include a mobile sauna from Sauna Savu (try out a prototype at Design Factory!),  photocatalytic coatings from Abonano, an innovative clothing solution Jolier ONE and a  fire eztinguishing solution from Cause. Venture Cup will continue in the spring with the business plan phase, which is open to everyone regardless of participation or winning in the idea phase.

- For Futuuns Venture Cup has been a great experience this far. The competition is a great opportunity to work on your business idea and get valuable feedback to it. Definitely worth participating. We are already working on the business plan phase and we’ll surely be ready to deliver our best on 10th of March next year, Kimmo concludes.

Futuuns got chosen to the top 12 from a total number of 227 participants. Five ideas will be rewarded on 16.12. after the teams have had a chance to pitch their ideas to the referees. The judges concentrate on innovativeness, growth potential and realistic implementation.

Read more about Venture Cup and Futuuns.