startup life to this date
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Startup Life to this date
The breathtaking story in numbers
- Mikko Hagelberg, August 2013
” We created Startup Life to help the brightest students at Aalto to reach their full potential.”
- Kristo Ovaska, co-founder of Startup Life
Brightest people from Aalto...
4 batches, 26 interns – 25 out of them from Aalto University
96% had B.Sc. degrees, 50% were recently graduated M.Sc’s
Brightest people from Aalto...
Meanwhile, in Summer 2011 and 2012, 35 students were
hired to startups in Helsinki
More on them later.
Brightest people from Aalto...
54% technical 27% business
19% designers
54% 27%
19%
42% School of Science 23% School of Business
8% School of Engineering, 23% School of Art and Design
Brightest people from Aalto...
Brightest people from Aalto...
However, not many entrepreneurs: only 27% had any previous startup experience
Sent to startups all over...
80% Silicon Valley, 8% New York, 8% Berlin 1 Bangalore, 1 Toronto, 1 Shanghai, 1 Singapore in 2013
Sent to startups all over...
65% extended their internships from the original internship period
(usually 3 months)
... and turned into entrepreneurs
Only 19% stayed or were planning to stay indefinitely, others returned to Finland
Over 80% were working at startups 6 months after their internship
... and turned into entrepreneurs
6 (23%) had founded, are about found startups.
2 have incorporated in US, others in Finland.
Mikko Hagelberg Program Manager [email protected] Twitter: @mhagelb -- www.startuplife.fi Twitter: @startuplife_in