Are you thinking about a semester abroad? We conducted a comparison between an exchange and Startuplifers experience to help you find your perfect match. It’s the time of the year when everybody is browsing through fascinating countries and interesting universities, wondering if they would like to spend an exchange
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
In Startuplifers, we find the best startups in Singapore and San Francisco for Nordic students to try their wings at. One of the most frequent questions we are asked is what kind of startups we have. We get new companies onboard troughout the year, so the positions vary monthly. In
Hey hey hey, it’s fall again! You must be thinking about the next move in your life like we all are now that the summer’s over and it’s time to dive into studies or work again. Whether it’s about starting a new hobby, applying for a job for next year
Many designers look to pursue the admirable high-cultural career path as a designer: design school in London or Milan, art history of Middle Europe, AD positions in organizations that let you learn from the best. Few designers get their education only to make their way to Silicon Valley and to draft
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
Ivan hangs up the call, makes a stunned gaze in front of him, and starts to scream. Roommate Nikita hears it and opens the door. “You got the job right?!”. Just like Nikita himself (who just earlier had been offered a job through Startuplifers the week before), an absurd feeling
Many people have asked me what kind of experience Startuplifers has been for me and how has it been leading the program. For a while, it was hard to answer – I feel like I have gone through 5 years in year and a half. Now, after taking a trip down
Juhana Kangaspunta is an Industrial Engineering and Management alumnus from Aalto, Startup Life alumnus AND ex-Startup Life Program Manager, Stanford alumnus, ex-Google, and currently working in Silicon Valley at a startup that makes self-driving cars. All in all, he sounds pretty much like a rock star. How did he get
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