Ten days in the Valley went past fast and the trip back home has already started. We had an intensive schedule during our stay and we got to see and learn a lot. I believe we got a little taste of the actual life of an entrepreneur in the Valley. During the day time you [...]
Wow! Two days of intensive networking! We started yesterday at former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos place where we went for cocktails with the Aaltoes group. Good to see that there are such talented and inspired people in Aaltoes. Some successful enterpreneus from Finland also joined us for the cocktails. Wise words from experienced people. Great [...]
We spent the whole Tuesday in a conference called Failcon in San Francisco. The conference focused on the trials and tribulations of successful entrepreneurs. The speakers included the founders of some of the leading social web and VC firms in the bay area such as for example Sandy Jen and Seth Sternberg; co-founders of Meebo [...]
Our first Monday in the Valley was filled with interesting program organized by Aaltoes. We started the day with a tour around the Stanford University. The campus area itself was a real inspiration! We were priviledged to have Juha Mattson a visiting scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business give us the tour. Juha gave [...]
After a weekend of preparation in San Francisco we are heading to Palo Alto where our journey really begins! Later today we will meet the other Aaltoes people and get a change to network with the Stanford University students. We have an intensive week ahead of us! You can find an overview of the week [...]
After more than 24 hours of traveling, one nearly missed flight and multiple airplane meals later we finally arrived to San Francisco on Thursday late in the evening local time. We are now spending the weekend in San Francisco preparing for the upcoming week. We are working on our presentation material and contacting interesting people [...]
Tomorrow the Futuuns team will join some other upcoming Finnish startups and enthusiastic Aalto University students on a trip to non other than Silicon Valley! The trip is organized by Aaltoes and consists of entrepreneurial events, startup visits and networking opportunities with for example students from the Stanford University. On top of that we will [...]
