Summer of Startups kick-off week was amazing. We got to hear some insightful keynotes (Aape Pohjavirta, Mikael Gummerus, Moaffak Ahmed, Tuomas Enbuske, Ramine Darabiha), competed in sales, had BBQ and got to build our services and products. This week our team, Altti and Saara, renamed our service to Modo Butiko (“fashion shop” in Esperanto) – which apparently is such a …

Summer of Startups Kicked-off on Friday. In this blog post one of the organizers of the program tells a bit how things are going and what’s awaiting the teams in the future.

The annual and renewed Yritystä Stadiin event was held at Vanha Ylioppilastalo for the seventh time by Helsingin Yrittäjät. Its aim was to offer information on useful services for entrepreneurs and give the participants a chance to network.

Summer of Startups is a startup program for early stage teams and ideas. Read on to find the teams for the summer 2013.

The most well-known startup hackathon, Startup Weekend, is coming to Finland!

The first week of Come to Sauna was a blast!

We had Taneli Tikka as a guest speaker for this month’s Aaltoes Talk. Taneli is an experienced serial entrepreneur and angel investor, and at the moment, he’s filling his time as the managing director of Wunderkraut.

The Sauna is filled with people working – which is an exciting turn of events – as the Startup Sauna program started this week.

In addition, one of the Sauna teams is giving out promo codes to their application!

Wappu is the time of the year, when all work stops, people don their student caps and everyone enjoys a glass of sparkling wine or two. Here’s photos of our wappu feelings!

We had John, the “Resident Hitchhiker” of GitHub drop by Startup Sauna to chat about the culture of the famed hosting service/social network for software developers, and they way they work.

On 5th of April 2013, Startup Crawl took place in central Helsinki. More than 80 excited participants and five wonderful startups made this event absolutely awesome. And of course, we had a great afterparty with our crawlers and hosts at Helmi.

If you haven’t figured out your summer just yet, or are looking for some extra challenge, check out Summer of Startups teams looking for talent. Most of the teams are looking for different kinds of software developers, so there are a lot of possibilities for you if programming is your thing.

Aaltoes and the amazing folks at ADD LAB (Aalto Digital Design Laboratory) combined our forces for last weekend to organize a hackathon around 3D printing. The weekend was filled with playing with CAD, printing prototypes and discussing business models.

Do you have a great business idea in mind for Summer of Startups, but you are still missing talented people to complete your team? To answer the cry for matching makers and ideas, Aaltoes launches Team member search.

Miki P’s overview into his and Miki K’s trip to the Global Entrepreneurship Congress held in Rio de Janeiro.

While the deadline for Summer of Startups applications is getting closer (Applications close the 7th of April) it’s a great time to take a look at what Summer of Startups has meant to couple of the teams in the last batch.