Anyone willing to follow in the footsteps of the best entrepreneurs and founders of Finland — let alone the world — has some big shoes to fill. The success stories coming from the Helsinki entrepreneurship ecosystem alone are both inspiring and intimidating; how can I do something as great?
Luckily, the very people who paved the way are more than willing to share their experiences and tips with you to make sure you have the best possible starting point on your entrepreneurship path. It’s time to put on some bigger shoes and start walking instead of talking.
Bigger Shoes is an event series that brings the biggest and boldest entrepreneurs in Finland and neighboring countries to you, so you can learn from their successes and failures. Get ready for inspiring talks and fireside chats, tough questions, and tasty bites, and don’t hurry home afterward — if you stick around for some networking, you might just meet your future co-founder.
Events are organized weekly on Wednesdays from February 14 to April 17. The only exception is February 21, when there will be no event.
- February 14: How to Evaluate Startup Ideas
- February 28: Understanding the Market and Market Disruption
- March 6: Getting Your First Customers
- March 13: How to Build an MVP with Customers — Software
- March 20: How to Build an MVP — Deep Tech
- March 27: The only thing that matters — Product market fit
- April 3: Startup Founding Team and Leadership
- April 10: Profitability and Health Tech
- April 17: Go-to-market and Expansion
Looking for some ECTS?
Attend all nine sessions of Bigger Shoes and complete the online course Starting Up (2 ECTS), and you can earn one extra credit. If you can’t make it to one of the sessions but would still like to earn the credit, let us know, and we’ll figure something out.
To earn the credit:
- Complete Starting-Up (2 ECTS) and attend all Bigger Shoes sessions
- Compare the topics, analyze the differences, and explain what you learned from Starting Up and what’s new in Bigger Shoes in a learning diary
- Length: two A4 pages
- Half page: what’s the core of Starting Up
- Half page: what’s the core of Bigger Shoes
- Full page: a table shows what are the differences based on the core that you analyzed on the previous page in a readable format.
- Send your learning diary to biggershoes@aalto.fi
