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One Year of Grace
Text by: Claudio Camacho Have you ever had the feeling of achieving so much in so little time? So much, that hours are counted in seconds, days in minutes and years in hours? That is exactly what has happened to me during the last year: almost 9,000 hours of continuous self-beating and achievement. It was a year of grace since I crossed the … Continue reading
Once More With Feeling: Summer of Startups Demo Day 2011
We’ve had a few days to recover from last week’s Summer of Startups Demo Day extravaganza but we take one more opportunity to say it out loud: ALL THE TEAMS THOROUGHLY ROCKED AND WE HAD ONE BLAST OF A SUMMER!!! The spectacular demo day was the icing on the cake celebrating the 10 weeks of super hard work from the teams … Continue reading
Summer of Startups 2011 Demo Day: It Takes a Community to Raise a Startup
Summer of Startups, the 10-week entrepreneurial program for the most ambitious students and researchers from not only Finland but all over the world (this year’s edition included teams from India and Russia and even more nationalities!) came to an end today at a spectacular Demo Day! The event featured Playfish’ Kristian Segerstråle (whose lecture is gonna be online soon enough, but as … Continue reading
Sami Inkinen: Go Big or Go Home
Returning to his alma mater, Sami Inkinen, founder of Trulia addressed the Summer of Startups and a 150+ audience on last Friday morning. His talk structures around the ten lessons learned in his schooling and career that has spanned from technical physics to corporates like Nokia and McKinsey and a quick stint in Stanford MBA program to launching Trulia, the US’ … Continue reading
Summer of Startups: You don’t have to achieve everything in 10 weeks but you can do a whole lot!
Summer of Startups was seen off to a great start this morning when both Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio and Risto Siilasmaa of F-Secure showed up to the dolled-up Garage to hear some amazing pitches! Dare to be different Angry Birds was by no means an overnight success. Since 2003 Rovio made 52 games before hitting the jackpot with Angry Birds. Some learning also … Continue reading
Announcing the Summer of Startups 2011 Participants
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is organizing Summer of Startups for the second year in a row. This year, 74 teams applied to participate in the program, including participants from India, China and Russia. Out of these, 11 were selected to participate. The teams will receive funding for the summer, mentoring from 30 entrepreneurs from the Baltic region, as well as working … Continue reading
Working at a startup: Bring on the ruckus!
Aspiring to help and support students and researchers as much as we can, Aaltoes is taking on three different summer programs. On Thursday evening, we held an information session about Summer of Startups, Enternship and Startuplife that quickly turned into a philosophical discussion of what working at a startup is really like. Ville and Karri from Grey Area, Oona from … Continue reading
Summer of Startups’ Winner Arada Services Take Off To Ethiopia
The winner of last week’s Summer of Startups Demo Day, Arada Services, is ready for the fall and the new adventures it brings. The co-founder Dilu Kefale of the team developing SMS-based ticketing system for intercity transport, is now heading to Ethiopia to do market research and contact potential customers and partners. In Ethiopia, the current ticket system in place … Continue reading
Summer of Startups: 10 Startups to Graduate from Finland’s First Ever Incubator Internship
Summer of Startups, a first-of-its-kind hands-on entrepreneurship program arranged by and for students with university and government support, is approaching its end. One more week to go, the teams are finishing up their summer task lists and getting ready for this Friday’s Demo Day. During the summer, Summer of Startups has given 10 selected student startup teams an honest snapshot … Continue reading
U.S. Ambassador visits Venture Garage
We received a real treat today! The US Ambassador Bruce Oreck visited the Aalto Venture Garage and heard the elevator pitch of each Summer of Startups team. Lawyer by trade and an entrepreneur in a large family business, the Ambassador had good input on several of the teams’s companies. Mr Oreck has a background in clean tech and was especially … Continue reading
Summer of Startups’ Buffee One of the Top 30 New Startups in China
Summer of Startups keeps bringing in fantastic news! Buffee, a feedback platform for social gamers across cultures, has been chosen as a finalist in the China (Shenzhen) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. The second annual China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition attracted over 1,000 applicants, and after two rounds of pitching, the 30 finalists have been selected. The overall winner will get … Continue reading
Aaltoes went to Estonia with Summer of Startups
Aaltoes and Summer of Startups went to Estonia From the beginning of the Summer of Startups, it was clear that the program would include a field trip abroad. So on the Monday 2nd of August the teams + few Aaltoes people boarded a ferry to Tallin, Estonia and went to see local startup scene there. For Monday we had booked … Continue reading
Summer of Startups: “Beg-Borrow-Steal, It’s All About Customers”
Monday morning guest speaker Ari Backholm hails from Smartner, the turn-of-the-century Finnish startup for mobile email solutions, later sold to Seven in the US. The path, however, was not as straightforward as that: The story meanders from three tech students forming a company, financing the day-to-day with consulting and random projects to bringing in a hired gun CEO, closing domestic … Continue reading
Summer of Startups: Validate Your Vision
Lean startups are currently all the rage in the Finnish community. Marko Taipale, CTO of Huitale opens the third week of Summer of Startups lecturing the teams about agile development. He profiles the most important contemporary thinkers, such as Steve Blank and Eric Ries, and shares some of his company’s favourite learnings from the movement. First up, what is a … Continue reading
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