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5 Lessons From the Garage48 Helsinki Hackathon

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It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. Together with Osma Ahvelampi (CTO, Sulake ) and Teemu Kurppa (co-founder, Jaiku ), I was a mentor to those teams. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week.

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StartupVitamins – The Poster Boy In Startup Motivation

YoungUpstarts

Take it from the folks from StartupVitamins – its founders are a team of serial entrepreneurs who’s learned the hard way to the tune of eleven failed projects to date. ” – Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google. ” -Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter. ” – Paul Graham, Y Combinator.

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