Two weeks have gone by and we have covered lot of topics with our Startup Journey teams. Eighth week we started with Iraklis Grous about Crowdfunding. Iraklis and his company LudiCreations has completed many crowdfunded campaigns and our teams were more than happy to get share of his expertise on the subject.

Later during the week we had lessons learned from game development from Veli-Pekka Kokkonen (3rd eye studios) and marketing analytics with Mikko Rindell (Lifted).  Weekly pitching practices we had Boost alumni Erika Halonen from Maria 0-1 and Erik Lehtonen from Science Park giving their feedback about the presentations.

Week 9 we had focus on investors & legal. Jukka Pello from Dottir Law helped our teams with essential legal stuff and Helleke Heikkinen from Finnish Business Angels Network introduced us to the world of business angels.

Jukka Pello (Dottir Law) talking about money

During the weekend we had our Startup Journey alumni from past years dropping some knowledge (keynotes and one on ones) about various stuff that needs to be covered after the accelerator program. Tomi Virtanen (Doerz) talked how they have funded their business and what are their experiences with personal loans, TEKES and crowdfunding. Maria Jensen from Aavagen shared her visions about the role of advisors. Linda Sevelius (GetListed) taught us about customer discovery.

Besides all of this, our head coach Pyry Liukas had last meetings with the teams in order to prep them for the life after Journey. This week the accelerator program with reach it's peak on 17.8.2017 at Sigyn sali 18:00 when doors open for our Demo Day!

And besides all coaching we remembered to BBQ on Thursdays together with the community

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