It didn’t take long as in the day after the lecture our enthusiastic teammate, Linda, started to talk about and browse different tools what we could use for online brainstorming. We had discussed different patforms and idea collection tools in the past (including UserVoice) but it didn’t really went anywhere as all the products out there where costing too much. But now we had a mission and after few hours after Linda started to talk about it we had integrated the service under aaltoes.com.

Soon after the launch ideas and votes started to arrive and now a week after we ended up with total of 25 new ideas and 174 votes! This really helped us and I’m sure there will be similar projects in the future where we’re needing your help. The idea site is now closed but we will investigate what would be the best solution to take advantage of similar solutions in the future projects and operations.

Thanks for everybody who helped us and it’s still possible to send ideas via comments or personally in the events!

Outsourcing an Internet cafeteria, getting old exhibition furniture and modifying it, pitching to get in to the Park? Our Jury of students and other stakeholders made some great remarks during the Sunday event for Aalto Ventures Park. However, we feel like our over 2300 Facebook members could contribute even more. Hence we’ve created a feedback system,where you can share your wildest ideas and vote for the best ones others have created. We’re thinking of implementing this system for further projects, for instance helping startups out in their problems and really harvesting the skills we have in our community. So help out!

Here are some of the ideas from teams of Sunday to get you going:

Team 1

- Open all the time: suited for people outside the 8-16 world. If you’re targeting the Asian markets, you can have the same working hours.
- Dynamic space distribution: everyone starts form a small space, progress gives you more space (and even more progress get’s you kicked out
- Inviting more mentors, people who have already achieved something. Mentoring can however start already quite early, after the first steps, transferring knowledge quickly.

Team 2

- Aalto Ventures parks should be 3^rd place: home – work – Aaltovp
- Should be inviting and open. Interface with each other, emphasis on culture and getting to know each other.
- Should be inclusive, also people from outside the three universities.

Team 3

-  Sleeping bags, mattresses, 24/7 eating facilities. A place to mingle and network outside the Aaltoes events. Brainstorming areas as well as more permanent places.
-  20 flat screens, a two-way connection to the rest of the Aalto campuses. Aim is that the startups can see people and the people can see what’s happening with the startups.
-  Video studios and editing facilities

Team 4

-  FC, meaning Fun Club and Fuck the Containers. No boxes, open space. Startups can rent their space by square meter. Total transparency: community that supports each other, no competition against each other, only one that makes you run faster.
-  Mandatory twitter feeds for startups, companies need to have two-way communications.
-  Big space could function as an exhibition hall for things that have been designed here. Catered lunches, coffee.

Team 5
-  The physical space could follow the form of a startup lifecycle: starts from an idea and ends with the exit. Companies could put their names to the phase they are on. Visualization.
-  Team-building wall, meeting new people.
-  Google-like space, sea of plastic balls.

Team 6
-  Modifiable cubicles, easy to move around.
-  Team-building/problem-solving screens: ask help, be helped.
-  Kitchen, smaller conference rooms. Test-servers.
-  Sofas and fatboys

Team 7
-  A two-way virtual window to other societies in different Universities of the world.
-  Centralized Business Administartion, providing accounting and secretary services for all startups.
-  Pitching events for ordinary people (meaning non-students, non-entrepreneurs)

Team 8

- People would need to pitch to get inside the building. The existing startups get to choose, so the community has like-minded people.  Kitchen and showers facilities.
- Mix of open and private, startups need both. Lockers for IPRs, assets etc.
- Short duration stay, only for the companies in the very beginning of their existence. Also non-startups, i.e