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Founders’ Week Program Unveiled!!!
We are just two short weeks away from the beginning of Founders’ Week and the excitement is tangible! It gives us great pleasure to present the week’s program. Our guests of honour will be doing a series of talks, discussions and workshops with an aim to bolster the entrepreneurial spirit we’ve seen growing in our region and hopefully spark a lot of discussion … Continue reading
Every Road Leads to Startups
I and DH had the honor to lead the startup tours organized for the international E-Bootcampers. So both Wednesday and Thursday the basic rhythm of waking up before 6am and going to bed around 2am went on. Even though having been several times to the Bay Area, it (once again) definitely had something new to offer. Tesla, making electric cars without … Continue reading
Seeing Sites and Sightseeing
Saturday – last day in Cali. A day for visiting as many interesting places as possible, a day for reflection and a day for dreaming. We started the day off with a “pilgrimage” to Google and Facebook. It was lame. Neither one let us in (perhaps because it was Saturday and they had no idea we were coming) but at … Continue reading
A Date in a Sauna
Morning coffee with Forrest from STVP in Coupa Café further clarified some of our thoughts from yesterday. A more detailed discussion about the Mayfield Fellows program further convinced us that this is something that could be implemented in Aalto. It doesn’t require a lot of resources and should definitely be integrated with the upcoming curriculum. After meeting with Forrest we … Continue reading
Stanford. Wow.
The conference being over, we rented a car and headed south towards Palo Alto and Stanford. First of all, the change of venue was more than welcome and we all felt alive again as we drove along the highway in the sunshine. None of us really knew what to expect from the Stanford campus, but as we pulled up to … Continue reading
Super Angels, Super Startups, Super Tired
Today was the last day of the conference. Things were sort of winding down as it seemed there were fewer attendees, but the finals of Startup Battlefield attracted lots of attention. Prior to this, however, there was a panel with angel investors that left a lasting mark on all of us. What is a super angel? Among the panelists was … 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
Aalto people, why should you care about Silicon Valley and Stanford?
Two years ago Aaltoes left for the very first Silicon Valley Journey. Since then, a flow of students and startups have visited the Bay Area. We’ve met Google’s Eric Schmidt, visited Y-Combinator, pitched to VCs and ridden the wave with Angrybirds. Now it’s your chance to be a part of this. The weeks spent here in California have changed us and many others for good. … Continue reading
Lessons of Silicon Valley
Journal kind of a thing from Silicon Valley by Miikka Peltola October, 2010 Miika Peltola is an entrepreneur & student at Aalto University School of Art and Design I decided not to go to the Aalto Entrepreneurship Society’s trip to Silicon Valley. I’m afraid of flying, I didn’t know any other person except one from the Finnish people going, aviation … Continue reading
Lessons learned in Silicon Valley -recap
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 … Continue reading
Lessons from the Valley: Real-Time Work
There’s one thing that is really pulling me to come live and develop my startup in the valley. It’s the way of working that is so efficient. This is real-time work. Today we’ve had 6 meetings, none of which we knew about two days before. Most of the meetings we didn’t know about a couple of hours before the meetings. … Continue reading
6 hours to go
We’ve now started counting hours (about six) until our departure to Silicon Valley. Kristo, Krista and the team have done a great job in booking interesting meetings and visits, such as Y Combinator. In the web team we had some spare time, so we decided to re-theme the site a bit. From this page you can follow our journey, comment … Continue reading
Aaltoes takes on Silicon Valley
The Aaltoes team is working hard to make an unforgettable experience for Aalto University students and startups. We have over 40 participants signed up and Arctic Startup is joining us for the trip. The participants are entrepreneurs who are using the trip as an opportunity to benchmark their products, gain insights for business planning, meet people and make valuable contacts. Seeing how business is … Continue reading
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