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100 Startups in 2 Days: Looking Back on Slush 2011
The perks of being a small, volunteer-based organization like us include the sometimes slow speed of upload. We’ve finally gone through the ample video material from Slush 2011 and will go through the harvest in the next blogposts. Taking place in early November, Slush Helsinki was a two day conference but most of all a startup expo; we had demo startups in the house that … Continue reading
Aaltoes48 – Ready, steady, go!
‘See you Saturday at 9am. Bring your laptops, sauna stuff and sleepover gear.’ And with those few words to go by, the tone was set for this year’s Aaltoes48. Especially for new members of Aaltoes, the Aaltoes48 weekend is a chance to learn, contribute, get involved, share skills and lessons learned, and most importantly — get to know the Aaltoes family. … Continue reading
The ‘Toilet Queue Pitch’ is the New ‘Elevator Pitch’
As the sun set on our third day, the Startup Sauna pitch has been crunched to a 10 second package. What began as an elaborate explanation of “what we do” has been condensed into something compact, quickly explained in the toilet queue – true story. The lesson here is: pitching a ridiculous amount of times makes you realize what your … Continue reading
Pitching, Perspective and Positive Experiences
After just a few hours sleep, ignoring the jet lag, we spent most of the day at the conference pitching Startup Life to about 80 startups and Startup Sauna to 10ish VC`s. Generally, the feedback was great and it seems our region is able to generate some traction at the moment. Startup Life was particularly well received generating lots of … Continue reading
4 Aaltoes Team Members Attending TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 in San Francisco
A few days ago the Aaltoes team made a quick decision: Nippe, Juhana, Juho and Riku will attend TC Disrupt on Sep 12th-14th. We were lucky to have Ramine coach us “a bit“ yesterday. The four hour session included so much new information to remember, advice, tips and hints that I don’t actually remember the last time I’ve felt that overwhelmed. Still, I had … Continue reading
Simplicity rules in the second pitching night
Pitching events for this fall are a wrap. Altogether 23 ambitious startups presented their ideas – some of them get to join us in Stanford, others in Slush. Tonight’s winners, UniMerchandise aims at making the affiliate products for Continue reading
Aaltoes Pitching coming up!
It is again the time for all great minds to punch their pitch on the 8th of October! Aaltoes is organizing the first pitching evening of the semester @ Design Factory, the mecca of creative ideas. We strongly encourage you all who have a good idea to enroll and give your best shot or just show up and enjoy the show … Continue reading
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