Another year, another SLUSH by Anna, Robin, and Stephan. We were three people with very different perspectives. As an exchange student, Robin had never attended SLUSH. As apart of Arcada Entrepreneurship Society, Anna saw SLUSH for the third time. Stephan knew a lot about SLUSH and felt privileged to attend and not just because our teacher finds it beneficial, which he is completely right about. For our class: Internationalisation of Small…
This year’s Slush gathered thousands of early stage companies, hundreds of investors and thousands of other attendees to the convention center Messukeskus in Helsinki. In the end, the total amount of tickets sold to the event was somewhere around 15000. As with previous years, the event for this year was also sold out. We, as students, were lucky enough to get our hands on these highly desired tickets and got…
What is slush? Slush is a technology and entrepreneurial event that happens every year in the late fall in Helsinki. There are approximately 15,000 attendees, 1700 start up companies and 800 investors. During this two day event Startups have a chance to pitch their idea towards potential investors and industry leaders give key note speeches. It is two days that you will never forget. Day 1 On a rainy and…
The first rule of Slush is: you don’t talk about Slush. …Just kidding: the first rule is, expect nothing from Slush. Because whatever your expectations are, the reality will blow you away. Even if you’ve attended before, as I have, make sure to check your preconceptions at the door with your coat, because every year is bigger and better than the last. This year, walking in was like entering some…
Kasper Suomalainen is the President of Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, working in collaboration with projects such as Startup Sauna and Slush. Their core team consists of more than 10 members and they’re organizing over 100 events this year. Also, Aaltoes is the main organiser of Summer of Startups “idea-stage accelerator” program, where ideas are turned into working products during the summer. Kasper is also studying at Aalto University. He has been…
Arcada Entrepreneurship Society is excited to invite you to THAW TALK, a panel discussion produced by AES in collaboration with the Film&TV students of Arcada and hosted by Peter Vesterbacka. Last year’s THAW TALK was a huge success and this year’s will be bigger, better and louder. THAW TALK will explore the ecosystem of entrepreneurship societies around all of Finland. Some questions to keep in mind: What is it that…
Hello folks! Thought it would be nice to give you guys an update on whats happening since we have been quite busy since last time. Vappu is coming up and we survived the easter holidays, those of us who had time to take off. We have been invited to the US Embassy tomorrow on Vappu to there building dedication, how AESome is that!? So 6 members of the board is…
Hello World! This weekend we have been arranging ES-Weekend with Hanken ES and Aaltoes. We have had visitors from all over Finland, Jyväskylä ES, Mikkeli ES, Joensuu ES, Lappeenranta – LUT ES, Laurea ES, OuluSES, Boost Turku and Helsinki Think Company. During the weekend we have met almost all of the Entrepreneurship Societies in Finland, what a awesome bunch of people! It is amazing to see that we are really…
Hello! Thaw Talk is over and how great did it go!? We are very pleased to say that everything went smoothly and everyone was pleased with the execution. We had some great panelist and we want to thank them once more! Markus Hakala from Activeark JWT, Fredrik Teir from Greenstep, Sebastian Schroderus from Rovio, Lauri Valli who is behind a bunch of companies and Peter Milden who is and entrepreneur…
Last Thursday morning it was time for the pitch. During the last few days and nights we had been working very hard in our international groups on our business ideas. We used all of the time available in order to improve and finish the presentations before it was time to impress the dragons. Each of the five groups were given a certain amount of time to present their companies. These…