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AALTOENTREPRENEURSHIPSOCIETY

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AALTOENTREPRENEURSHIPSOCIETY

Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is a community-driven organization founded in fall 2008.

We help students and researchers create world-changing startups from Finland and Northern Europe.

Our events connect you with new ideas, team members, experienced mentors as well as funding.

The Garage started early 2010 with grassroots initiatives made by a group of students and entrepreneurs from Aalto Entrepreneurship Society who wanted to foster the entrepreneurship culture and help create great startups.

The Garage ‘s 700sq meter free working space has everything you need to build a startup: Wifi internet, kitchen, coffee machine, copy machine, meeting rooms, hotdesks, big open auditorium and great people!

About...

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Aaltoes began 2010 in a positive conundrum. On one hand, the founding team from 2009 had achieved a lot and would go on to be an integral part of our group from thereon as well, with Kristo leading the way setting up the Aalto Venture Garage. Aaltoes was visible, relatively well-known, and building momentum in the drive to spark more and more entrepreneurial spirit amongst Aalto University’s students and researchers.

On the other hand, however, Aaltoes was also lost whilst being completely on-track. We didn’t know what we’d end up doing during the year, but we all had the feeling that we had to do a lot and all the time. The team spent months working hard on events and concepts that didn’t always end up fulfilling expectations, but all the while we began to get a clearer picture of what Aaltoes was and is. We found perfect gems, just waiting to be honed, such as the Summer of Startups and a renewed and refreshed trip to Silicon Valley, not to mention having one of our team members set up StartupDigest Helsinki.

At the end of the year, everyone can probably be pleased with our achievements. Countless new teams have been formed, new companies have been founded, and innovative thinking is clearly seeping deeper into the general mindset of all the people around us. With the amount our active members have been interviewed, quoted, and called upon as guests in several different forums, I’d say 2010 was the year Aaltoes really made itself known.

Now the team for 2011, with the help of all those of us who have been around longer, need to start filling even bigger promises brought about by the publicity and image Aaltoes has made for itself. I have full and complete trust that under the leadership of Mikko Kuusi, whom I brought onboard already during the Spring of 2010, the Aaltoes team will manage to get even closer to the stars that we are all reaching for.

For everyone involved during 2010 - thank you.

- Jens Sørensen, Chairman 2010

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Editor: Lauri Hynynen

Texts: Natalie Gaudet Lauri Hynynen Linda Liukas

Photos: Lari Haataja Timo Herttua Charlotta Liukas Linda Liukas Oskari Pétas

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ContentsEvents in 2010 page 5Summer of Startups page 21Bootcamps page 29Trip to Silicon Valley page 33The people page 39Startups page 47Thanks page 55

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Events in 2010

Most of our activities are related to organizing different kinds of events, so here’s a short summary of the ones in 2010

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JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

1st of January,

New board & team

19th of January,

First Open Mic -event

2nd of February,

Aaltoes Fair

17th of February,

Aaltoes Pitching

24th - 25th of March

Trip to MIT GSW

25th of March,

Tuli Talk

/w David Brown

14th of April

Aaltoes Talk /w

Siilasmaa, Parkkinen

Rosendahl & Hjelt

19th of April

Open Mic /w

Media Biz Lab

20th of April

Bootcamp keynote w/

Mårten Mickos

April

Bootcamp #1

5th of May

Bootcamp Demoday

6th of May

Aaltoes Visit to Fruugo

24th of June

Summer of Startups

pitching competition

July and August

Summer of Startups

28th of January,

Tuli Talk

/w Hannu Verkasalo

4th of February,

Aaltoes Open Mic

11th of February,

Aaltoes Open Mic

25th of February,

Aaltoes visit to WOT

4th of March,

Tuli Talk

/w Tuomo von Lerber

5th of March,

Late Night /w Aaltoes

13th-14th of March,

Aaltoes Startup Talkoot

26th of April,

Tuli Talk

/w Hipui

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AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

13th of September

Open mic on Ubicom

8th of October,

Late Night /w Aaltoes

13th of October

1st Fail Day Celebration

14th of October

Aaltoes Insight

21st of October

Trip to Silicon Valley

September,

Bootcamp #2

27th-31st of August

Trip to the Baltics

14th of December,

Election of the board 2011

27th of August

Summer of Startups

pitching competition

10th of August

ES Summit1st of December

Aaltoes Talk

/w Niklas Zennström

18th of November

Info & Recruitment evening

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First Open Mic -event19th of January

The first Aaltoes event for the 2010 was a casual networking evening and an opportunity for sharing ideas: Aaltoes Open Mic. The idea was to have short 2 minute speeches and then open discussions after them. The topics could be almost anything from problems you discovered in the event to well-prepared business plans as the goal was to generate new teams for Aaltoes Pitching Evenings.

The event took place at Helsinki downtown KY-Building and was a great success with about 40 people attending. For many of them this was their first Aaltoes event and many of them later became active team members.

New board & team1st of January

Right before the christmas holidays, the new board was elected.

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Tuli Talk /w Hannu Verkasalo28th of January

This was the first of the Aaltoes Tuli Talk series, a monthly event dedicated to hearing the stories of entrepreneurs with a research background. We were privileged to host Hannu Verkasalo, serial entrepreneur and founder at Zokem Ltd, who spoke about his experiences as an entrepreneur, his companies and research background.

There were good audience of 50 young students and researchers and after the event people stayed for a good while to talk, discuss and exchange ideas, so this definately set up a good start for the other upcoming events.

Aaltoes Fair2nd of February

This was the second time we organized the Aaltoes Fair in cooperation with the HSE MBA Alumni Association. At the Aalto Design Factory about 30 startups presented themselves to the diverse audience in a fair-like setting. The careful and comprehensive planning & execution produced great results: many of the over 300 delegates and startups nominated the Fair as one of the best Aaltoes events ever.

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Aaltoes Open Mic4th of February

Our second Open Mic was held at the Aalto school of Art and Design. The variety of ideas presented were a refreshing reminder of the purely fantastic thought processes that fill the heads of our Arts and Design students. With five different ideas presented, no member of the audience left the event without having learned something new.

Aaltoes Open Mic11th of February

Third and last Open Mic for the spring was held at our very own Aalto Venture Garage. Again, lively discussions and new people visiting the VG, so clearly the goals were met.

Aaltoes Pitching17th of February

The first Pitching Competition for the year. As usually, we saw some very good pitches and business ideas, some of which we would be hearing a lot more later on. The winner was Lauri from Aaltoes with an idea of open and collaborative tool to help people keep their new years promises. Other great ones were eg. LucSens and Finderbase, just to name a few.

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Aaltoes visit to WOT25th of February

We visited a finnish startup called Web of Trust, who develope a community-based tool to boost trust on the web. As always, it was inspiring and a great learning experience to hear a unique story of a successful startup. Thanks!

Tuli Talk /w Tuomo von Lerber4th of March

As a part of the Tuli Talk -series, Tuomo von Lerber, the CEO of Luxdyne Ltd., told us his story of a researcher turned into a business person. Without any slides or other material, Tuomo was probably one of the best speakers we’ve ever had at the Garage, so good job!

Late Night /w Aaltoes5th of March

What a night! Great speakers, great atmosphere, great venue (after the lightman worked his magic) and great people! The event continued until… late, when we had to pack up our awesome light and audio systems, much to the dismay of the crowd still hanging out.

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Aaltoes Startup Talkoot13th-14th of March

The Design Factory was the place to be on the weekend, when the Aaltoes volunteers and startups gathered there to work on each others project in a true Talkoot-spirit.

On Sunday we held a pitching competition which was won by LucSens. You can read more about them at the Startups-section

Tuli Talk /w David Brown25th of March

David Brown, Founder and CEO of Canatu told the story of a young researcher working hard in his lab pumping out paper after paper on his research until one day, everything changed when this particular researcher took the plunge and decided to take his research onto the next level, on to the business level that is.

Trip to MIT GSW24th-26th of March

Five Aaltoes team members and their startups went to Iceland for the MIT GSW conference. This was a good opportunity the new team to develope more international networks and see how the things are done elsewhere.

Fun fact: the event was held just two days after the Ash Crisis -mountain had had it’s first, tinier eruption.

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Bootcamp #11st -30th of April

The first Bootcamp ever at the Aalto Venture Garage. Inspired by programs like Y-Combinator, the crew from Aaltovg selected ten best teams to be coached and mentored over the few weeks in order to create the next 100M+ success story.

Open Mic /w Media Biz Lab19th of April

This time the Open Mic was co-hosted by people from the new minor program in Aalto: the Media Biz Lab. The emphasis was on mobile applications and again the discussions were great and we’re sure that new ideas emerged from the event.One concrete project started was the (nowdays unfortunately more or less dead) Venture Finland: a wikiplatform and a source for entrepreneurial information.

Aaltoes Talk /w Siilasmaa, Parkkinen, Rosendahl & Hjelt14th of April

One of the goals for the team this year was to organize at least a couple of major Talk-events during the year and this definately was one. Over 150 students and others gathered to the school of Economics to listen to these four experienced entrepreneurs sharing their experiences on what it takes to create successful startup.

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Bootcamp keynote w/ Mårten Mickos20th of April

Mårten Mickos stopped by the garage to speak about Open source to the BootCamp teams. The BootCamp teams took this opportunity to pitch in front of the former CEO of MySQL AB. Mickos’s most important tips to the young startups was to really know yourself before embarking on the entrepreneur’s journey.

Tuli Talk /w Hipui26th of April

The Tuli Talk -series continued with Hipui, the developers of the next generation of mobile experience. The Hipui -folks also ended up being one of the winners of the Bootcamp #1. Congrats!

Vappu Reception30th of April

We gathered up a large group at the Aalto Venture Garage to officially open the Kitchen and celebrate Vappu. Good food, great people, fun atmosphere: the perfect mix for a pre-Vappu party. Hopefully this will start up a traditions for many years to come.

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Bootcamp Demo Day #15th of May

This was the final day for the Bootcamp #1, where all the teams presented their achievements and progress during the past few weeks. After a fair-like setting there was a pitching competition, after which the judges chose three winners: Widsen, Hipui and Thermophotonic Heat Pump.

Aaltoes Visit to Fruugo6th of May

As the last (but definately not least) activity for the spring, we arranged a visit to Fruugo, one of the most famous startup from Finland. We learned a lot about the company's history and had a great discussion about the critical decisions startups might have to make early on.

Summer of StartupsJuly and August

The first Summer of Startups -program ever! Together with awesome folks from Hanken's and Helsinki University's Entrepreneurship Societies we organized an alternative summer jobs for entrepreneurial students. Read more from page 21.

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ES Summit10th of August

For the first time, the more or less newly emerged Entrepreneurship Societies from all over the Finland gathered under the same roof to discuss about the challenges they're facing and their future plans. The event was hosted by Aaltovg and lots of new plans were made, such as the decision to do the Failday nation-wide, just to mention one. Let's hope this'll become at least an annual tradition!

SoS pitching competition27th of August

The selection process for the SoS included a pitching competition as a final round, so right before Mid Summer about 70 gathered to pitch and hear others. The pitches were good and after everlasting consideration the judges ended up choosing ten best teams. What a way to start Mid Summer!

Trip to the Baltics27th-31st of August

It's important to know your neighbours, so a small team from Aaltoes and Aaltovg took a ferry to Estonia and continued through Baltics to meet local entrepreneurs and communities. One goal was to make the upcoming Bootcamp #2 better known, which was definately met. Another highlight might be attending the Garage48 at Tartu, which resulted having another one at Helsinki in Jan 2011.

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Bootcamp #211th-29th of SptemberFor the second Bootcamp of the year, the Garage team had made some changes and this time the schedule was much more intense. Still the core idea was the same: get the best teams from the Baltics to the Garage and accelerate them into a 100M+ success stories.

Open mic on Ubicom13th of September

Another Open Mic -event, this time with emphasis on Ubiquitous Computing. Not all of the attendees knew what ubicom actually means, but I think most of us learned something new.

Late Night /w Aaltoes8th of October

To boost the recruitment of the Aaltoes team and especially the board for next year, we hosted our second Aaltoes Late Night: a casual and very laid-back evening with couple of short speeches and a chance to mingle and meet other likeminded people.

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1st Fail Day Celebration13th of October

This was the first Finnish Fail Day, organized by local ES's and celebrated simultaneously at Espoo, Turku and Tampere. The goal of the day was the change people's perceptions and Finnish culture about failure and encourage risk taking.

We had invited a few speakers to talk to Aaltovg and enjoyed the delicious and bitter sweet punch while sharing stories about our personal failures.

Aaltoes Insight14th of October

The tagline for the Aaltoes Insight was "Peak into the future". We invited senior executives from IBM, Stora Enso and KONE to present problems their industries would be facing in the next then years and thus good ideas to build startups on. The event attracted a good crowd of about 100 attendees and the discussions were lively.

Trip to Silicon Valley21st of October

Our second trip to Silicon Valley started officially on the 21st of October, even though most of us had arrived a day or two earlier. During the week we got to know about the local ecosystem, each other and have a good time.

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Info & Recruitment evening18th of November

This was an informal evening to provide information for interested people on what it's like to be involved with the Aaltoes board and/or team. Many people attended and latest then we knew, that year 2011 would be even better than this one!

Aaltoes Talk /w Niklas Zennström1st of December

Niklas Zennström and Atomico Ventures were coming to Helsinki as a part of their roadshow around Europe, so we tapped into an opportunity and invited him to talk to Aalto Venture Garage. As the hype of having the founder of Skype and Kazaa to talk started to build, this ended up being the biggest Aaltoes event with over 270 attendees.

Before the event we held a pitching competition with a number one prize being an invitation to a private afterparty hosted by Atomico and 15 minutes of private skypetime with Niklas. The pitches were great and the winner was APE Payment.

Election of the board 201114th of December

Aalto Entrepreneurship Society selected its third board on Tuesday 14th of December at Aalto Venture Garage. The 5-member board, backed up by a wonderful team, will shape the Aaltoes activities during 2011. Needless to say, familiar faces will not disappear anywhere!

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Summer of Startups

An 8 week summer program by entrepreneurial students for entrepreneurial students

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The beginning

The idea of a program like this had been out there already for quite a long time, but in the end it was put together in a very short time. The first meeting was held at the cafeteria of the Aalto School of Economics in late May, only six weeks before the kickoff.

Ville Simola from the Aaltoes board was chosen as program manager running the operations of the program full-time and Ramine Darabiha, the CEO of MySites was hired as the main coach. Lot of the preparations were also done during the program which made it an iterative program, just like we were preaching the start-ups to iterate their own businesses.

The program itself

The selection of the teams was done in two rounds and was heavily inspired by accelerators such as Y-combinator. First, we gathered online

applications where questions were asked about the idea, the team behind it and especially the team’s plan for the summer. As the result of heavy promotion over 60 good quality applications were received and 20 best teams were invited to a pitching competition. Despite of having it right before the mid-summer the event draw a lot of crowd to the Garage and eventually ten teams were selected by a jury consisting of organizers and coaches.

During the eight weeks, the teams from various backgrounds developed their products and business models to be presented in the Demo Day. About every other day we had speaker / coach to guide the teams in different topics ranging from productivity and agile development to financing and legal matters. The teams weren’t required to attend every session or even work at the Garage, but still many did and felt it really helpful as, there was always someone to ask for feedback and the atmosphere was very collaborative.

Summer of Startups was one of the new initiatives organized in 2010. Together with HankenES and HUES, we created an intensive, 8-week program for early-stage startup teams. Ultimately, a ten teams were chosen from a total of 60 applicants. During the summer, these teams got to work on their own startup idea, while getting a small seed funding of 1500 euros per team member.

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A lot of emphasis was put into pitching, as besides of it being important from the sales point of view, it’s also a good practise for clarifying the essential in one’s business. Almost every day was started with a 30 second elevator pitch from every team to the guest speaker and a lot of progress was made.

The startup BBQ’s

In addition to the official program, every Wednesday there was an event called Startup BBQ. The idea was to have an open and casual hangout with good food, few drinks and a startup from previous Aaltoes-events to share their story. Every team had one week when they were responsible for the arrangements, so the burden wasn’t too heavy for anyone and everyone enjoyed it.

The events were really popular and drew a lot of people to the Garage every week, the record being over 130. Besides having fun time and building the teamspirit, these were also good chances for the teams to get outsiders’ feedback and promote their startup.

The Demoday

The whole program culminated into the Demo Day, where the teams presented what they had done and how they had progressed during the past eight weeks. Many had working products and actually most had changed their ideas from the original. Both the teams and the organizers put a lot of effort to the event and it certainly was a high quality one.

The day consisted of two parts. The first was a Fair-like setting, where the teams were promoting themselves at stands and people could freely move around to get to know them. After this, the second part was a pitching competition where teams were evaluated on business potential, quality of the presentation and progress made during the program. Ultimately, three winners were chosen, so congrats to Arada Services, Living Canvas and Pamoja Innovations!

Impact and Visibility

One of the surprises was the amount of attention and media coverage we got in various newspapers and blogs such as ReadWriteWeb and Talouselämä. The inofficial communications team (Charlotta & Natalie) did an awesome job in handling the PR and spreading the word about the new grassroot-level initiative unlike any of the previous ones.

For a program that was started of in just a few weeks and with small amount of funding, the impact was enormous. Besides of the created buzz, ten teams were formed and 30 students got the taste of entrepreneurship. Now, after six months at least half of the teams have turned themselves into companies and a few of them have e.g. raised funding and/or have paying customers. Good stuff!

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Bootcamp

Organized by the Aalto Venture Garage, Bootcamp provided startups the best opportunity to develop and test your idea with the most experienced coaches from Finland.

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Calling all Entrepreneurs to kick-start their companies!

Openness and collaboration were central themes at the Bootcamp as teams co-operated, worked on each other’s ideas and challenged those. Bootcamp wasn’t only a competition but a chance to share and grow your idea.Bootcamp was run by Garage’s Entrepreneur in Residence, Juha Ruohonen, a serial entrepreneur and ex-VC with years of experience.

Bootcamp Spring

The first bootcamp ever was a 5 week program. To get the startups inspired, the info lunch was kick-off by Ville Miettinen; Founder of Hybrid Graphics and Jussi Harvela, ex-ceo of Solid Information Technology. Both shared their entrepreneurial stories of their humble beginning of starving students startups to successful international exit.

Jussi who raised the most capital in Finland, wore his cowboy boots to show that he is ready for Bootcamp. Blood , sweat and tears are needed to start a company, he says, but participating in Bootcamp will enable teams to get on the right path.

Bootcamp Fall

After learning what worked and what didn’t at the first Bootcamp, the Garage team pivoted the program. They have added a larger network of coached and the schedule of the program was way more more intensive. Startups spent 2 week at the Garage where they lived and breath the startup life at Bootcamp. There was also more prizes allocated to the Bootcamp. The winning teams not only got office space, coaching, and funding but also a trip to Silicon Valley.

Tina Seeliq, president of Stanford Technology Venture Programs came all the way from San Francisco to kick off the second Bootcamp.

Bootcamp, run by the Aalto Venture Garage, was an intensive program run for the first time and two times during the 2010. It was free and basically the best opportunity to develop and test your idea with the most experienced coaches from Finland.

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Demoday

At the end of each Bootcamp, Aalto Venture Garage held its Demoday to present the latest batch of Bootcamp graduates. Coaches, investors, key stakeholders and the public joined together to see the startups that will rock Finland in the future.

Prizes for Winning Teams

Office Space in the Garage• 5000€• Continuous Coaching and access to • networks.Trip to Silicon Valley•

Text: Natalie Gaudet

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The trip tothe SiliconValleyLate October about 40 of us invaded the Silicon Valley to learn all about the local ecosystem

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Aaltoes invaded Silicon Valley for a week in late October. Organised for the second time in a row, the journey consisted of a week of workshops, startups visits, company excursions, networking events and meetings with interesting people. Over 40 ambitious ambitious startups and local ES students decided to take part.

We had the opportunity to meet Stanford University students, incubators & co-working spaces, Silicon Valley veterans, VCs, lawyers, entrepreneurs and startups, as well as get to know Aaltoes and its members better. We met tons of famous faces: Steve Blank, Robert Scoble, 500startups with Enrique Allen, Y Combinator

with Harj Taggar, K9 Ventures with Manu Kumar, Venture Beat with Anthony Ha and Orrick Ventures with Jason Crain and a tons of other. We also visited all the bigger co-working spaces: KickLabs, I/O Ventures, Dogpatch Labs, PariSoma, SSE Labs and Hacker Dojo.

Aaltoes got covered by Robert Scoble, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Angle and Startup Digest. The ad hoc Finland Night in PariSoma gathered some 100+ people together from the industry. Our sticker competition got out of hand and resulted in Garage sticker being photographed in Bucks Woodside coffee, Y-Combinator and PayPal conference sponsor wall, as well as with MC Hammer, Robert Scoble and Eric Schmidth.

Text: Linda LiukasPhotos: Timo Herttua

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SaturdayBizTechDay San Francisco•

SundayOpening dinner @ Fishmarket •

MondayFailcon 2010• Dinner with Founder: How I raised one • million dollars as a first-timeEntrepreneur / Gagan Biyani • BASES 150K Kickoff - featuring MC • Hammer, Dick Kramlich, and SethSternberg•

TuesdayBreakfast with Peter Vesterbacka from Rovio • / Angry BirdsBreakfast with a founder: How to network • the Valley, Chris McCann, the founder of StartupDigest d.school tour with John Feland• STVP visit with Mayfield fellow students• Lunch visit to Yahoo• HackerDojo visit• Visit to Stanford Technology Licencing • Office

WednesdayMeeting with Micke Wendell from Nexit• 500Startups with Enrique Allen• Stanford ETL: Anna-Miura Ko• James Cameron and Eric Schmidt at • Churchill Club

ThursdayStartup Waffles in TrueVentures• Kicklabs visit• Visit to GitHub• Visit to Dogpatch Labs• I/O Ventures• Visit to VentureBeat, Anthony Ha• Finland Night: Angry Birds and Aalto • Venture Garage

FridayMeeting with Trulia Sami Inkinen• Y-combinator• Manu Kumar / K9• Orrick law firm visit & Wilson Sonsini visit• Mårten Mickos visit•

Programme of the week

Even though many had meetings and schedules of their own, there was also some arranged program people could attend if they wanted - and many did!

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Said about the trip:

“ I wanted to meet new people (metric: a stack of business cards, a couple of email threads, new facebook and linkedin contacts), find competitiors (we found atleast one direct competitor) and pitch (pitch atleast once a day)....and world peace (pending). “

“ Reaching out to see what Silicon Valley really holds. To build a good entreprenurial ecosystem, one really needs to see what it means at its best. I also got good contacts with bloggers, investors and lawyers and great feedback on our company. Our plans of reaching to the US market evolved greatly.”

“ We got a lot of feedback and suggestions for next steps. We also have decided to move at least me to the Valley. Also are talking to some potential investors “.

“I gained a lot of enthusiasm, new ideas and lessons on entrepreneurial life philosophy. I feel like I have grown as a person and that I’m now ready to take the next step as an entrepreneur.”

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People

Behind every event, program, trip and Facebook invitation there’s a bunch of quite awesome people, also known as the Aaltoes Board & Team and the Garage Crew.

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Tapani Alasaarela

Tapani organized events for researchers and was involved in many other Aaltoes activities. Besides Aaltoes, he did doctoral research at Aalto and worked for a fast growing nanotechnology company Beneq.

Jens Sørensen

Jens oversaw the continually changing entirety of Aaltoes activities and dealt with external relations and media. Outside of Aaltoes, Jens pushed on with his studies and co-founded Experq.

Board 2010

Many say that it’s the team that matters the most in a startup and it certainly holds true for the Aaltoes as well. Everyone gets responsibility from day one and taking initiative is encouraged. Besides of the mandatory (regulated by the law), official board, there’s a bunch of active team members who play key role in organizing many of the things we do. In practice there’s no difference or distinction between the board and the team.

The way of working

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Lauri Hynynen

Lauri took care of the IT-matters and was involved in organising various events. Outside of Aaltoes, he eg. was part of the Aalto on Tracks -team and co-founded a new startup called Experq.

Ville Simola

Ville was responsible for activation events such as Aaltoes Open Mics and Aaltoes Pitching. Later on he co-founded and managed the Summer of Startups -program.

Mikko Ikola

Mikko took care of Aaltoes treasurer issues, promoted Aaltoes in MIT GSW and Tsinghua / BATES. Most of his time was suddenly gone with Aalto on Tracks as a chief organizer.

Santeri Everi

Santeri handled student-oriented events and took part in organizing others. He was also an organizer in Aalto on Tracks, involved in Aalto University fundraising, and launched a startup called Rele Mobile.

Olli Nuutila

Olli helped in the practicalities in organizing many events. His startup called Jalo Helsinki ended up keeping him quite busy, but that’s what were aiming for, right?

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Team 2010

Lari Haataja

Lari has been an active team member at Aaltoes. During the year he helped to organize many events and provided some technical expertise when ever needed. Lari is also an iOS developer at Rele Mobile.

Petteri Häjänen

Petteri helped organising student related events and promoted Aaltoes activities to freshmen. Petteri also took part in Aaltoes Silicon Valley trip and gained priceless experiences.

Oona Hilkamo

Oona was actively involved with the freshmen activation during the autumn and recruiting the new team for 2011. In addtition to Aaltoes she helped in organizing the AoT and worked like an Angry Bird ;)

Plenty of people

The definition of the Aaltoes team is very vague and this list is not comprehensive by any means. So besides of the folks mentioned here, there are plenty of others as well. Thanks! You know who you are :)

Juho Hyytiäinen

Juho played an active role in the autumn as he promoted Aaltoes in freshmen activities. He also joined the Aaltoes Fair 2011 team to do the facilities coordinator job.

Mikko Kuusi

Miki joined the Aaltoes team in late 2009. Having been sent to Israel, Silicon Valley and many parts of Europe to learn, Miki was chosen as the chairman for year 2011.

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Charlotta Liukas

Charlotta did events, events, events and was the Official Garage Gossip Girl. She was M.I.A the last quarter of 2010 while on exchange in Belgium.

Oskari Pétas

Oskari helped organize events and participated in Summer of Startups as part of Experq. Also helped get more attention among technology students.

Linda Liukas

Linda is a Aalto-hangaround involved in all things Silicon Valley, cooking for crowds and making girls love tech.

Lauri Lehtovuori

Lauri became an active member of Aaltoes during 2010 after Tina Seelig’s keynote in September. Helped organizing Aaltoes Talk with Niklas Zennström and started photoshooting at the events.

Markus Nuotto

Markus was mostly involved in advising the Aaltoes board and helping organizing new events. He also helped the development of Aalto Venture Garage.

Antti Ylimutka

Antti began his Aaltoes career by visiting Good Morning Stockholm 2020 in November with Kristo and Miki, helped arrange Aaltoes Talk w/ Niklas Zennström and wrote blog posts about both of the events.

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Tuomo Kuikka

Tuomo was also part of the Aalto Entrepreneurship Society in the early days. He was known as the best person to carry chairs for events. He was so inspired by the startup community, that he decided to quit his job at the University Lab and join Kristo in forming the Aalto Venture Garage.

Tuomo’s was the handyman of the Garage. He could fix and build about anything. Tuomo has made the hostile industry hall into a real working space where entrepreneurs can call home.

In 2011, Tuomo was recruited by one of the Coaches and joined a startup called Valoya. Ps: The coffee machine misses you greatly.

Natalie Gaudet

Usually the only girl around the Garage, Natalie joined the trio when the Garage was 2 months old.

She knows her way around Garage’s communications as she takes care of public relations, marketing, and websites. Always on the lookout for a good story, Natalie brings some Canadian charm to the team.

The startups in the Garage appreciate her as she has lend her voice many times for promotional videos and by bringing cake to town hall meetings.

In 2011, Natalie can still be found in the Garage building the culture and the community.

Kristo Ovaska

Kristo Ovaska’s passion is to build world changing startups from the Nordics. For the past two years, he has been building the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Finland. In 2009, he co-founded and was the first chairman of the Aalto Entrepreneurship Society. In 2010, Kristo brought to life the Aalto Venture Garage.

Apart from running from meeting to meeting, Kristo is an excellent motivator and great leader for the young startups of the garage.Kristo is a power networker and knows who to ask to get the job done.

In 2011, Kristo will be moving to Silicon Valley to start the collaboration between Aalto Venture Garage and Stanford University.

The Garage Crew 2010

The Garage Crew takes care of running the Bootcamp-programs and continually developes co-working space

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Startups

The amount and quality of startups catalyzed by us seems like a fair metric for our success and results, so here’s a list of those who attended some of our programs.

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Internal Facebook for companies Creates “Rainforest in a box” for office spaces.

increases customer-company interaction to make the world a better place to be a customer

A platform for social games to collect feedback from users regardless of their mother tongue

Provides easy and affordable access to inter city transportation via mobile phone in East Africa

They were the winners, congrats!

Deal Machine is all about exciting sales. The web service rewards salespeople for every step they take towards a sale

Startups from Summer of Startups

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Location-based reminders (ex: “buy toothpaste” when in supermarket)

Promotes development of greentech and renewable energy in East Africa

Helps to organize information from your social networks around your life experiences

A mobile service to scan and collect info of your diet in real-time

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Hipui marries the phone and cloud to redefine mobile user experience and App development

A web service for community-oriented exchange of goods and favors

We make the world’s first real Chinese-English and Japanese-English dictionaries

Web community for managing collaborative audio projects for audio producers and sourcing high quality audio productions for companies

The Aalto Brain Company will bring relief to the information-overloaded knowledge worker through cognitive fitness software based on neuroscientific research

The worldwide network for bars, nightclubs and cafes which unites people, products and companies in the industry

Aalto Brain Company

Barisma

Kassi

Startups from Bootcamp #1

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Lost and Found service

Shobble - Discover, review and share your favourite webshops

We are building a global open marketplace for media content distribution

Widsen provides an easy and low-cost way to gain control over electrical appliances and to monitor electricity consumption

Relationship Games is a social reality game, available through Web and mobile channels, for couples who want to add fun, excitement and attention to their relationships

MAKUMAKU is an internet service enabling people to buy their food products directly from local producers, knowing the origins of the food, as well as their health and environmental impact

Makumaku Relationship Games

Videolla

Finderbase

Dreamtravel

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Startups from Bootcamp #2

“Transport-as-a-service” removing congestion of private cars.

Organize information from your social networks around your life experiences.

Recommends interesting activities to do and finds people near you.

Sport application for the internet age.A scalable solution for repairing electronics at affordable price.

We are making the greatest complete game you can enjoy in one evening! Play with friends to create your own unique story

Titan BGA Hookie Technologies

StageCraft MetroDRT

FunRank

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A dental professional sharing network.

Power to the people in construction! Let the people come first, then the house after that.

Provides the tools to listen to what is being said about brands online in Eastern and Central European countries

DealMachine makes sales more exciting for sales teams in SME companies by using game mechanics to enhance sense of mastery and allow for self-direction leading to growth in profits for the whole company.

Cohousing Suomi

Dentatube

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Thanks!

Finally we would like to thank all of you who have been supporting our activities. Even though there’s an awesome team, most of this wouldn’t be possible without you!

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Aaltoes is funded by:Garage Coaches:

Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation

KAUTE foundation

TTER

TEKES

Aalto Center for Entrepeneurship

Aalto University

Jussi Harvela

Moaffak Ahmed

Micki Honkavaara

Inka Mero

Ramine Darabiha

Ville Miettinen

Petteri Koponen

Marko Saapunki

Peter Vesterbacka

Timo Teimonen

Ake Edlund

Taneli Tikka

Ilkka Kivimäki

Micke Paqvalen

Mika Tammenkoski

Ilkka Paananen

Paolo Borella

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Aaltoes’ Advisory Board: Garage’s Advisory Board:

Pekka Roine

Hannu Seristö

Tina Seelig

Sami Heikkiniemi

Jussi Harvela

Jukka Viitasaari

Petteri Koponen

Mikko Kärkkäinen

Teemu Kurppa

Maija Itkonen

Kristo Ovaska

Ville Vesterinen

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This book was sponsored by

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www.rovio.com

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