hey guys today I will be talking about
slush not this lush that we get every
winter in Finland but the big syrup
event and you may or may have not heard
of the slush events but it actually
started in 2008 in Helsinki so in this
video I will be first talking about what
is slush in general and why people
participate in it and then I will be
talking about why you should go to slush
and how I enjoy slush every year so
please look forward to that so what is
slush well to put it simply it's a very
big startup event that's happening in
Helsinki Singapore Shanghai and Tokyo so
what originally started in Helsinki 2008
and one of the reasons it started was to
improve the mentality about starting
your own business as better Esther Bukka
who was one of the founders realized
that students in Finland are mainly very
negative about starting your own
business so we wanted to improve the
mentality of that 2018 the Helsinki
Schloss which is the biggest one managed
together over 40 thousand attendees so
who are the main people to participate
in slush and why do they do that
and why do I participate there are
mainly three categories of people who
participate in slush and these are
startup companies investors and students
me being in the latter category of
course there are other categories as
well people of media and just regular
boots who want to know what's going on
in the world but the main three are the
ones I just mentioned so why do these
people participate in slush what did
they get from it well first let's think
about the startups start companies
participate in slush to get promotion to
their products or services and to also
attract investors while investors of
course look for potential investment
opportunities in start-up companies
where students like me usually go there
to search for new ideas for internships
and
even to search for a place to work so
what is my typical sloshed experience
well the way I enjoy Sluss is first when
I arrive at the venue I kind of take a
general tour of the whole place and see
what kind of boots there are and talk to
people who I find interesting and who I
think have an interesting product or
service and this is one of the most
important things to me in slush because
I usually find services and products
that I didn't even think are possible or
are maybe like five or ten years in the
future but then I go all around the
venue and I find out that these things
are already being done and possible and
it's very exciting to know about these
things
the second way is to listen to
presentations and panel discussions
where there are people of a CEO some
companies and other experts talking
about things like FinTech agriculture
and other industries as well I think my
last reason to go to class applies to
everyone not just people who find
interests in startups which is free food
and drinks the best example for this are
the side events with slush which if you
go to there are tables full of free food
and drinks just up for grabs and to be
honest I ate enough that if I was in the
movie spirited away I probably would
have turned into food so even if you
don't find the idea of startups
interesting at least there is that so
now you probably know what so much is
all about and you can decide for
yourself if you want to go but for all
you who have even the slightest interest
in startups and new innovations and
ideas I definitely suggest going anyway
thanks for watching this video and I'll
see you on the next one
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