Blog
A collection of thoughts, stories, and findings on all things entrepreneurial, from the minds of the AVP team.
Tiina Zilliacus and Lidia Rauramo asked students at the beginning of their Good Life Engine course session what they would like to learn about entrepreneurship. The discussion in class can be boiled down to the following 11 lessons about entrepreneurship and life.
We recently visited Uganda and Tanzania, where we had a chance to talk with local students and young professionals about their countries' sustainability issues. The people we spoke with highly regarded sustainability and wished their governments would do better. We found four reasons why they are not. However, it seems their countries are in good hands.
13 Apr 2023
Rosa-Maria Alaraasakka and Tuomas Hätälä are the founders of Opack, a startup that aims to revolutionize the reusable food packaging industry. The company is based on an idea born on Startup Experience and it almost died during Covid, but was born again thanks to an unexpected savior — the EU.
06 Apr 2023
In this opinion piece, AVP student Júlia Vila provides insights from AVP’s Bay Experience, which they joined last January. During the program, she participated in the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship (BMoE) bootcamp at UC Berkeley and began to understand how Finnish and American universities are different.
30 Mar 2023
You are already creative. If that's hard to believe, our teachers, Lidia and Simo, provide some tips on how to find unlock your creativity. Make a list of the things or experiences you have created — you will see that it’s longer than you thought.
23 Mar 2023
Lauri Järvilehto, AVP's director, philosopher and published author, shares concrete tips on getting started with and finishing your book, thesis or publication. In this part 2/2, he talks about the writing process, editing and getting feedback. Make sure to read Part 1 first!
16 Mar 2023