This document provides information about the #startups4peace program which supports startups working on peace-related issues. It outlines the application process with a June 26th deadline, and a jury selection on June 27th. It describes two workshops in July and September that finalists must participate in focused on topics like opportunity recognition, customer discovery, and pitching. It provides biographies of the two workshop leaders and gives selection criteria and FAQs. It encourages applying to the program to work hard, play hard, and make a difference with your startup.

2. About
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3. Our DNA
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4. Team
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PartnersSupportersOrganizers

5. Process
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6. Timeline
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7. 1st Steps!
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• Apply online!
www.startups4peace.com
• Deadline June 26 @23:59hrs
• Jury selects finalists June 27
• Workshops participation – a must!

8. Workshops
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July 1st 2017
Opportunity recognition
Customer discovery
Business Model Canvas
(BMC)
Minimum Viable Product
(MVP)
Sept. 2017
Pitching
metrics, analytics
growth hacking
*finalists
Oct. 2017
Pitching Bootcamp
*winners

9. Workshop 1 – July 1st
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Teemu Polo has more than a decade of
experience working in and with startups in
various roles: as a global business
developer of Nokia, as an entrepreneur,
and from the public sector (policy,
ecosystem development).
He has also been active in Finnish
Federation of Enterprises serving as a
founder/chairman for the high-growth
startup related activities.
He holds an M.Sc. (SW engineering) and
executive MBA (strategy). Teemu lives in
Helsinki with a wife and two boys, and gets
kicks out of practicing judo and evaluating
Horizon 2020 proposals.
Opportunity recognition
Customer discovery
Business Model Canvas (BMC)
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

10. Workshop 2 – September
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Kasper Suomalainen, All-around hustler,
Royal Hostess, and community-glue at
Startup Sauna. Pitching King. Having been
raised on three different continents, he is
not the typical, quiet Finn (he says). He is
currently the Director of Community at
Startup Sauna after being President of
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society. Passions
include robotics, casino management and
mathematics.Pitching
Metrics | Analytics
Growth Hacking

11. Selection Criteria
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12. FAQs
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13. Seriously.
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14. Let’s take some sunshine to SLUSH
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15. WORK HARD.
PLAY HARD.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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16. Let’s #Startup Cyprus
Apply!
@stavriana_k
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