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A collection of thoughts, stories, and findings on all things entrepreneurial, from the minds of the AVP team.
In January, AVP alumnus Johannes Salmisaari was on his way to UC Berkeley in sunny California, not knowing that the campus would close in six weeks because of the new coronavirus. As a part of an AVP-Berkeley contract he and a fellow student, Henrik Helenius, had been chosen for Startup Semester, an entrepreneurship program focusing […]
Don’t think about a pink elephant! Most people, when told this, think about a pink elephant. In psychology, this is known as the “Ironic process theory”, which means that when you try to avoid thinking about something, you’re actually more likely to think about it. This sort of process also works for more concrete things, such as trying to break habits — […]
13 May 2020
Entrepreneurship is often considered difficult, time-consuming and overall an undesirable career choice. We don’t deny that it can be hard at times, but many students or alumni of Aalto University already have a lot of experience they’d need as a future entrepreneur — even if they don’t necessarily realize it themselves. We talked with three […]
28 Apr 2020
The outbreak of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, caught humanity with its pants down. The virus, causing the disease known as COVID-19, spread through the globe like wildfire, forcing us to change our behavior in ways we couldn’t have imagined. This text is my reflection on how the sudden increase of uncertainty caused by the virus […]
23 Apr 2020
Already prior to the present predicament with the coronavirus, the world has been facing severe challenges regarding the well-being of the planet, the ecosystem, and humanity. Many of these challenges have been codified by the United Nations into the Sustainable Development Goals, ranging from eradicating poverty to ensuring clean water and sanitation for everyone, from […]
01 Apr 2020
In January 2020, AVP gathered four students from Aalto University and sent them to participate in the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship (BMoE) Bootcamp in Berkeley, California. This was an intensive 4-and-a-half-day workshop consisting of not only lectures and interactive classroom activities, but also of mentoring sessions that facilitate teams to develop their own startup ideas. Take a sneak peek behind the […]
26 Mar 2020