We are living interesting times right now

We haven't been posting anything in a while, but despite that there has been some serious business going on! We attended the Demola's presentation skills workshops, where we were able to develop and practice on our pitches. Also there was a Demola Jam -event, where two co-ordinators from Demola Tampere came here and gave us some awesome tips on how to develop our project. But first things first.

At last we got picture of the whole team!

The last webinar A.K.A Doomsday no. 1 took place yesterday and our team wasn't really sure what to expect. The end of the last week was a kind of a disappointment to us, because we didn't manage to give enough effort to our project. Well, at least Antti worked with our MVP all night long like a workaholic. The main thing that we accomplished was to get into the group of 20.

Got it?

The good thing was that we had been in the list of top invested ideas in Sanoma accelerator for a couple of weeks, and the idea had been mentioned in at least 3 or 4 times. Also our contact people from Sanoma and Demola poured us with confidence and assured us of the faith they had on us. At this point we were quite sure that we had all the tools to make it to the top20. But when Wednesday came, the distrust towards our idea came as well.

The due day of final voting was on Monday and big surprise, NONE of us remembered to give their votes (sorry for everyone about that!). The only criteria to get into the desired top 20 was to get enough those goddamn VOTES we didn't give (SORRY!). That made the Wednesday night super exiting, or terrifying depending on the point of view. But luckily our criteria was the first thing, lessening the nervousness and excitement. WE MADE IT TO THE  T O P  2 0!! And thanks to our votes of the best e-commerce idea (that's our idea, didn't see that was coming?) we made it to the top 10. And we were absolutely shocked.


After all this hard work this thing is starting to pay off and we are now a bit closer (about 200 ideas that is) to our Amsterdam trip. But before a bigger celebration we have to do some more things to get into the top 5, to be the group that is the best of the best. So from now on this is going to be nothing but hard work and pitche$. Like we like to say, make good pitches and money will follow!

The game is on.

Key to success ;)