Next week the world’s leading startup event, Slush, returns to Helsinki. This internationally recognized event brings together over 3200 startups and 1500 investors. While Slush has become highly prominent among startups and investors globally, it has also had a big impact on the Finnish startup ecosystem. Although Slush is mainly
Over the past decade, Startuplifers has connected hundreds of talent from the Nordics with fast-growing startups in Silicon Valley and beyond. After the program, many of the alumni have played an essential role in building some of the fastest-growing Nordic startups including Wolt, Varjo, Hoxhunt, Blok, Singa, Valohai, Meru Health,
Startups and scaleups are attracting more talent than ever, especially upcoming talent relatively early in their careers. The startup path has become a more formidable career option than it used to be, and we see many switch from corporate careers to early ventures. While startups are for many an opportunity
Generally speaking, some companies might not want to use a recruiting agency because they assume they would mainly provide candidates for either entry-level or temporary jobs. Other people might think that agencies can not provide big benefits to workers. In the vast majority of the cases, both of these assumptions
As people and businesses across the globe have been getting used to remote work, the conventional boundaries have started fading away. With many more startups embracing remote work, we’ve started seeing talent opening themselves to remote work opportunities with companies from the other side of the world. If you’re considering
The ongoing global pandemic has brought about a sudden realization that remote work can actually work. Consequently, startups seem to be increasingly open to hiring remotely. While in many cases that may amount to hiring a neighbor to work from home, many companies are looking across national borders too. However,
We are so excited to welcome Krishna to the Startuplifers Community! A few weeks ago Krishna joined Paladin Cyber, a cyber security startup, as their remote Full Stack Engineer. Before Startuplifers, Krishna pursued a Master’s degree in Pervasive Computing and Communications for Sustainable Development at LUT University. His experience includes working as an
A Startup is a beautiful thing. It very often contains innovation, ideas, dreams and ambitions. But it also means heavy efforts, high risks, uncertainty and challenges, with the most important challenge (after having an idea and being able to turn it into a company) being finding the fundings to run
Onboarding plays an absolutely crucial role in a new hire’s success and happiness, and consequently on their productivity and fitting to the Team. A good onboarding experience is especially important for remote employees, since they don’t have as many opportunities to integrate themselves into the company’s workflow and to its
In this week’s post we get to know Tomi Kalmi, Startuplifers alumnus currently working as a Full-Stack Developer at Compound. In 2019, Tomi joined Chartmetric as their Software Engineer through Startuplifers. Chartmetric is a music analytics platform trusted by the biggest companies in the industry such as Universal Music Group,
