Spring Trip to Silicon Valley for Tallinn Tech Students
Tallinn University of Technology master's degree students in IT and business are in Silicon Valley this week to participate in workshops and clinics under top professors from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley.
Although one Silicon Valley Steve is now in wave form, on April 3 the students got to meet Steve Jurvetson, Steve Blank and several other business leaders and show off their MiTV business model, which analyzes and records viewer emotions and makes suggestions for movies they might like.
The University plans to take students on similar trips to the Bay Area twice a year, said vice rector Alar Kolk.
"I'm glad we have become the first Estonian university to break through to Silicon Valley," said Kolk.
The students also participated in Startup Speed Dating, where business ideas have to be presented in two minutes. Today it will be Death Match, where venture capitalists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs try to cut business models down to size - according to Kolk, all intended "to give our young minds the best of the world's knowledge in startup enterprise and global innovation and do so through people whose voice counts in global innovation."
Kristopher Rikken