Aalto startup ecosystemBreakfast seminar @ Demos Helsinki 26.8.2015

Erika Noponen

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Startup Sauna accelerator program supports early-

stage startups

Northern Europe’s largest startup conference

Startup Life send the most promising students to

intern at startups in Silicon Valley

71 in Silicon Valley and New York

127 interns all together, out of which

52 in Helsinki

5 in other countries

Lessons from

Otaniemi to Silicon

Valley

Startup culture is not

really about startups.

What can we do for

each other?

Your background

doesn’t limit you…

…And your past

doesn’t define you

People = everything

Ship fast and hustle.