Largest Start-up Event in Northern Europe and Russia: Slush is Here!

Via Anni Rautio

Hello Jamk IB:ers! Next week it’s time for the year’s largest start-up event in Northern Europe and Russia: Slush is here! Held November 2nd & 3rd in Helsinki, students can join Slush for the modest price of 25€ – but what you get in return is priceless.
Slush gives you access to 150+ potential future employers, 20+ world-class keynotes, two breakfasts, two lunches as well as an after-party hosted by Accel Partners, one of the leading venture capital firms in the world!

Some participants of JAMK’s LaunchPad will be at Slush, you should too! Represent Jyväskylä!

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http://www.slush.fi/
SLUSH2011 | Startup conference
Slush 2011 is Northern Europe’s leading startup conference. The event features world-class keynotes, cutting-edge panels on, thrilling product launches, and much more

Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is Bringing the All-time Lean Startup Guru, Steve Blank, to Finland! 5-9 September 2011

Steve Blank

A great tip from Anni Rautio that was posted originally to the IB Alumni Facebook Page

Steve Blank, Serial entrepreneur, the revolutionizer of entrepreneurship education and ecosystems is visiting Finland for one week in September 2011.

Read more from their website

5-9 SEPTEMBER 2011
Helsinki, Finland

Who is Steve Blank

Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur, founding and/or part of eight startup companies in Silicon Valley. His last company E.piphany was listed to stock exchange in 1999 for approximately 2 billion dollars.

After the IPO, Steve created the customer development model to better understand the patterns of building successful startups. His book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany, became a bestselling technology entrepreneurship bible and revolutionized the ways startups are built.

Currently Steve is a professor of Technology Venturing at Stanford University. His new course, Lean LaunchPad, teaches aspiring entrepreneurs his method of creating startups. Steve’s ambition is to renew entrepreneurial ecosystems and education all around the world.

More information on Steve
» Download a PDF profile on Steve (1Mb)
» Steve Blank’s Blog
» Steve’s Twitter
» Stanford Technology Ventures Program

More information on Aalto University & Silicon Valley
» Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship
» Aalto Entrepreneurship Society
» Startup Sauna -program
» Startup Life -internship program