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[Ebootcamp] How It All Ended
Ebootcamp gave me a serious indigestion problem. You know too many lessons can kill people. What a tremendous source of inspiration(I am not exaggerating!) Anyway here are the three most crucial lessons that I hand-picked to share with you guys. I tried not to overlap with Lauri’s points. 1. Dualistic approach: be smart and optimistic Vinod khosla was after all … Continue reading
First thoughts from the bootcamp
This week I was participating in the BASES E-Bootcamp at Stanford with Juho, DH, Kristo and Claudio and it was a blast. Here are couple of random points and lessons learned. Unfortunately due to time constraints, it isn’t very organized, so apologies for that. However, as we yet again learned, the most important thing is to have something out for … 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
Back to the Bootcamp
A few weeks ago two Aaltoes guys, Juho and DH, got a mission: to join E-bootcamp and help out the organizers of the event as a partner. Although it was such a creepy idea to go back to bootcamp once again – we’ve already served 3 years in total in military – we quickly sensed that it’s going to be … Continue reading
Stanford and Nordic Games make up for busy days!
It’s been busy. Days have been long. Things are great! The last two days have been an experience of constant learning – a real life school into networking, interviewing, shooting (video & photos) and pitching. The pace has been super fast and to add to the challenge we still haven’t recovered from the jetlag. However any difficulties have been rewarded tenfold with … Continue reading
Take part in Stanford classes on AI, iPhone development and Steve Blank methodologies!
Ever wanted to study machine learning? Or make a deep dive into iPhone programming? This is your chance to take some of Stanford’s and STVPs most popular courses. As a part of the new online education initiative, Stanford is offering a lot of great course content with integrated quizzes, videos and learning materials, free for the world. Start your year … Continue reading
Silicon Valley 2011 Day One – Better Place, HackerDojo, Revolights & Jeff Clavier
From cold Helsinki, straight from Slush, Aaltoes stormed into SF and the Valley with a big crew – 42 of us here with BoostTurku and Hankenes. Jetlagged and bootstrapping at super8 (besides the Hankenes guys, who had some of us in their party mansion in SF Castro for a few nights), here we are, all hyped up. On Sunday evening … 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
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
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
Eric Ries is coming to Finland – Win tickets
Couple weeks ago Twitter showed it’s power once again. Few active startup founders noticed that Eric Rise is going to visit Oulu, Finland and took action immediately to get him to meet the startup scene in Helsinki. If you’re not familiar with the name Eric is the father of Lean Startup methology and also the man behind wildly popular Startup … 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
Preview of the new Facebook HQ
This section of the blog is for contributors’ experiences abroad – mostly from the perspective of entrepreneurship, although I’ll personally be including posts about subjects that I hope will be of general interest. I’m starting off with a light subject – just a few picks and notes about a company that has become a daily part of many of our … Continue reading
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