We are thrilled to introduce you to Riikka, a new Startuplifer who took off to California last week. Riikka will be working as a Chief of Staff at Meru Health, a Y-Combinator startup creating a new standard of mental healthcare. Before Riikka stepped on the plane and took off
As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration at Startuplifers, we are sharing inspirational alumni stories from the past decade. In this week’s post we get to know Pauliina Alanen, Startuplifers alumna currently working as a Communications and Marketing Lead at Silo AI. In 2017 Pauliina joined a healthcare data
Searching for a job is hard. It is time-consuming. It can impact your self-esteem. Especially, when rejections keep rolling in. How to keep moving forward? How to use these attacks on your self-worth, and turn them into self-improvement and job search success? Realise, it’s not you. Some job openings may
In the first episode of the second season of LEAP Podcast, we get to hear an inspirational story from Joakim Isoaho. Joakim currently works as a Customer Success Lead at Matchmade in Los Angeles. Matchmade is a Finnish company shaping the future of influencer marketing with a platform that enables
Pauliina is one of the Startuplifers’ wize Gandalfs, also known as alumni. She did her internship in San Francisco at BetterDoctor, a healthcare data startup. She started as a Platform and Community Manager and took care of their developer community that had built itself around the company’s API. After a
Interviews are like sales calls – situations where you can sell the best possible product: yourself. And just like you would never go to a customer call without some preparation, you really shouldn’t go to an interview either. Quite the opposite. We at Startuplifers pulled out some tips to help
One needs to be strongly involved in politics, turn tables at high-end consultancy offices or pursue a specific academic degree in order to make an impact and shift the society to next levels. Nope. Our Lifer Katariina Helaniemi believes that in today’s world, there are other, more efficient ways to
Text and pictures: Pauliina Alanen, @palan3n If technology, future, startups, blockchain or AI interest you, but you’re not a huge tech nerd, don’t worry. You can still come to Silicon Valley. It just might be a bit more challenging (read: not advertised) to find out about the “open positions” as they’re
During the last seven months, I’ve learned quite a bit about sales, recruitment and business in general, in the tech capital of the world. Here are my biggest learnings from having way too many late night conversations from Finland, and spending almost 2 months in the San Francisco Bay Area,
A well-prepared interview is like setting one foot in the door already. The key points vary a bit depending on the position you’re applying. We conducted the best tips for you to prepare. Be aware of the time difference. The time difference in San Francisco is –10 hours. So 6–9