Startup Talkoot April 25, 2009

As you might know, talkoot is the Finnish word for a group of people gathering to work together, for instance, to build or repair something. AES is gathering students, entrepreneurs, investors and other experts together to work on Aalto startups. This is the start of a series of events to catalyze Aalto startups that was started by the pitching evening (PreTalkoot) on the 31.3.

We have 5 startups coming to Design Factory on the 25-26.4. We’ll be working together on the most important issues facing these startups, in design, coding, business or anything! We’ll have experts regarding financing, law, strategy and entrepreneurship giving information and catalyzing the work being done over the weekend.

Our goal is to help the best Aalto Startups that participated in our pitching event, allow students to learn, match the startups with new team-members and allow the creation of new ideas with like-minded people. The startups will post some tasks they have which the students will be invited to resolve. For some, there will be prizes, for others, maybe opportunities to continue working for the startups. We’re also sure that everyone will have the opportunity to meet interesting people and create new ideas altogether!

Expert Talkoists:

Moaffak Ahmed - Veturi Venture Accelerator
Peter Kelly - Helsinki School of Creative Entrepreneurship
Peter Vesterbacka - Bazaar, Star Wreck
Timo Airisto - ConnectedDay
Timo Teimonen - Nokia Ventures

In addition, we’ll have representatives telling about financing options, IPR and contracting, and more official speakers will be confirmed later on.

The First Startup Talkoot will be held on the 25.4-26.4. from 11.00 on Saturday until about 17.00 Sunday.