Matti Karjanlahti spoke on Start Smart! event Wantrepreneur 2 Entrepreneur 1. december 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia. www.start-smart.me

1. Aalto University
School of Economics
Small Business Center
StartSmart!
Tallinn 1.12.2011
Matti Karjanlahti

2. Founded 1.1.2010
• Aalto University - a new university with centuries of
experience
– Helsinki School of Economics
– Helsinki University of Technology
– Helsinki University of Art and Design

3. Incubate your business in
Aalto Start-Up Center!
“ A dynamic business incubator
with high quality business
services!”
“The best place for young
companies with an innovative
business idea and strong will to
succeed !”

4. We support You
in the pre-incubation phase
 Coaching, training, testing and challenging
your business idea by qualified trainers and
experienced entrepreneurs
-> You fine-tune your service/product offering
 Providing the right tools to calculate cash-flow,
sales pipeline, customer potential and key day
to day activities
-> Well thought-out and robust business plan
-> You establish your own company!

5. Incubation phase:
What You will get from us ?
You will be guided through the first challenging years
 Find and test the right business model
 Begin the customer development process
 Secure the funding
 Find the right business contacts
 Cooperate with other technology companies

6. How we do it
 Your strategy, customer development process
and growth bath will be formulated and challenged in
agile programs
 Networking sessions with key players in your field
 Access to experienced entrepreneurs via
our mentor-network
 Personal business trainer
 You will have a top notch ”office hotel”
with the important services you require

7. Facts and figures
 Selection criterias : innovative and scalable business idea, strong
will to grow and age < 3 years
 Max incubation time 3 years
 Alternatives: office room (12m2),
open office or virtual membership
 1400 m2 office space and 150 m2
open office space in Technopolis
building few minutes from downtown
Helsinki
 Staff of six experienced specialists
and a wide expert network for
entrepreneurs

8. 87 % Success rate!
 The biggest and fast growing incubator in Finland
 Aalto-university business experts and
experienced business consultants available for you
 Over 70 growth companies at the moment
 Our clients are are knowledge and technology based
companies as well as companies operating in the
creative field
 Over 500 companies have joined the incubation
 87 % success rate after ten years (survey 2009)
 32% of companies are fast growers (=Gazell companies)

9. Aalto Start-Up center companies
Postincubator companies

10. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
More information about Aalto Start-Up Center
Matti Karjanlahti matti.karjanlahti@aalto.fi
www.start-upcenter.fi
www.pienyrityskeskus.aalto.fi