Inside the Founder Minor
From student journeys and founder stories to the latest news from Aalto Founder School, discover what鈥檚 happening across our entrepreneurship community.
When there is no proof, the story is the evidence 鈥 a new Founder Storytelling course at Aalto University
A new course at Aalto University teaches aspiring founders how to build, adapt and deliver the story behind their venture 鈥 before the traction, revenue and track record exist.
Take your first steps as a founder 鈥 in just six weeks
A new Founder Principles course at Aalto University gives students the tools, mindset and hands-on experience to start building 鈥 with AI as a co-founder from day one.
From Management Consulting to Startup Thinking: Julia Sepp盲 on Finding an Entrepreneurial Path
What happens when 15 years of experience lead you to ask, 鈥淲hat鈥檚 next?鈥
Discover Aalto Founder School
Aalto Founder School helps students develop the mindset and skills to create something new. Open to all Aalto students, it offers multiple ways to explore entrepreneurship through Founder Talks, the Founder Minor, and Founder Sprint.
Experience Isn't the Finish Line: Payam Salarvand on Learning to Build Better
Can experienced entrepreneurs still benefit from going back to the classroom?
Beyond Startups: Karla Still on Rethinking Entrepreneurship
Can entrepreneurship look different from the startup stories we hear most often?
From Quantum to Entrepreneurship: Sreekrishna Praveen on Expanding His Perspective
How do you turn breakthrough technologies into real-world impact?
Prototyping and Validation Grant: Deployable
Four Aalto master's students built a physical AI startup on a borrowed GPU, beat PhD teams at a hackathon, and received Aalto's prototyping and validation grant.
Founder Stories That Stay With You: Emma Seisto on Discovering Entrepreneurship
The course that made Emma rethink her future.
Prototyping and Validation Grant: VeinOptima
An Aalto design student is building a device to help nurses find veins faster, funded by Aalto's Prototyping and Validation Grant.
From assumptions to evidence: Andy Du Ly on testing ideas before building
What happens when a founder puts assumptions to the test?
Keys to growth: Launching new enterprises to lift all of Finland
This article series tells the story of Aalto鈥檚 work as a builder of a better society. Aalto Founder School equips students with the skills needed to set up and lead a successful growth companies
