Despite the blooming of new tech hubs in Austin, Chicago, and even Florida in recent years, San Francisco remains one of the most relevant and important startup locations in the world 💪🏽 (Isaura Hernández, Lorenzo Maggi) The city has a long history of innovation and entrepreneurship, and it has built
Next month, the world’s leading startup event, Slush, returns to Helsinki. This internationally recognized event brings together over 4600 startup founders and 2600 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
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
As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration at Startuplifers, we are sharing inspirational alumni stories from the past decade. In today’s post we get to know Emma Lundin, Startuplifers alumna currently working as a Product Designer at Twitter. Originally from Sweden, Emma studied Media technology at KTH University in
If you are a startup founder, or working for a startup, chances are that you’ve encountered one of the biggest challenges keeping startups from their desired growth and development trajectories – the difficulty of bringing in new talent. Adding to the difficulty is the fact that as a startup, you’re
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 new episode of LEAP, we hear Federico’s exciting journey with Startuplifers. Read on to find out how he ended up moving to San Francisco, working for two different startups and later shifted into a digital nomad lifestyle while travelling around the world. Today, Federico lives in Finland and
In the third episode of LEAP’s new season, we hear an interesting story from Antonio Chiappetta, who works as an iOS software engineer at Elevate Labs. Elevate Labs is a startup developing a brain training tool designed to build communication and analytical skills. The company’s meditation app, Balance, has made
Be it in a résumé, an application letter, or a face-to-face interview. We need to be able to sell our skills. Selling a skill does not mean inventing something, but rather showing the skill in a light that is relevant to the position we are applying for. How many times
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