Open position: Animation Producer Trainee at Rovio in Shanghai

Interested in working for an inspiring and cool company? Rovio is now looking for talented new people from various backgrounds with passion for animation and/or relevant industry experience to join our 2013 trainees. We provide cool challenges for students and [...]

Catching up with Slava

Slava, our guy at Breezy, has set up a blog of his own to share his experiences. Check out here how has he been doing lately! You’ll find out how to get a Californian drivers’ licence, where to get a [...]

Announcing Startup Life Interns 2/2013 Part Two

We’ve been asked a question “who are the lucky ones” for few weeks now, and we’re now continuing answering that with revealing seven more Startup Life interns for Silicon Valley. Check out also the first five here   Alexander Patouchas [...]

Design Agency vs. Startup Environment

Be warned! This post can be full of information and perhaps not very entertaining, so if you are in need of something light-hearted first, go watch this video below and comeback later   Ok, are you ready? Here we go. [...]

Startup Life Gathering at Breezy

Slava, our hacker at Breezy, wrote a neat blog post about the first Startup Life Meetup organized at Breezy a while a go. Read more at Slava’s awesome personal blog.

More Startup Lifers: New York Edition

Startup Life in New York is also getting reinforcements. After one year of program’s inception, following Vuokko and Panu – we have two more amazing people joining NYC startups. If they can make it here, we’re pretty excited to see [...]

Announcing Startup Life Interns 2/2013 Part One

We’ve been asked a question “who are the lucky ones” for few weeks now, as most of the companies have already made their hiring decisions. So it’s time to reveal the first startup lifers of Silicon Valley for Summer 2013. [...]

Story of Panu: From Alpine Villages to Concrete Jungle

This is a post by Panu Keski-Pukkila, currently working as a Startup Life intern at Kollabora in New York City   I have never been a fan of big cities and metropolises. I don’t hate them, but the criss-crossing streets [...]

5 Reasons Why You Should NOT Apply for a Job in a Startup

People keep going on about how awesome startups are. Well that’s all fine and dandy but let me tell you why you should NOT apply for a job at a startup. Here’s a little expose of the, not so rosy, [...]

One Sunday of Nippe’s Startup Life (Juhani Tamminen style)

Craigslist is awesome. You can find free or almost free stuff there that is in fact in excellent shape if you know what to look for. This is the story of how I got a super cool leather couch for [...]

Startup Life 2.0

The deadline for Startup Life applications was Sunday, March 31. By the deadline, we got 320 applications for Startup Life and Startup Sauna internship together. That is a lot, more than ever since we launched both programs back in 2011. [...]

You know you are in San Francisco when your favorite spare time activities include eating or drinking

When I arrived to San Francisco to work at BetterDoctor as the UX designer, nobody told me that the food is so good in this city. I thought it is my job now to tell you why you should really [...]

One More Week.

Yeah, you heard right. That is one more week time left to apply to Startup Life for this summer. We have got 131 amazing applications so far, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give it a shot. Also, more opportunities [...]

How to Find an Interesting Startup to Work for in 15 Minutes.

We launched Startup Life Ondemand for those who couldn’t find the suitable position for themselves in the existing list on our website. Although we have already been privileged to help several talented people find the startups through this track, we [...]

Slava’s First Month by the Bay

Slava, our guy at Breezy, has set up a blog of his own to share his experiences. In his first post, he will unveil his tips for the Visa, traveling to SF and finding a place to stay. Read the [...]

Three Weeks Time Left to Apply

Still wondering to apply or not to apply? Wonder no more, there’s only 25 days of application period left. The Startup Life and Startup Sauna Internship  summer ’13 internship application deadline is March 31, midnight. Here’re couple of reasons why [...]

Startup Life 101: a Step-by-step Guide to Successful Application.

This is a guest post contributed by Sarun. He’s a graphic designer who recently joined Breezy in San Francisco through Startup Life. For those who want to learn what is expected from the beginning to the end of the application, [...]

Getting settled in San Francisco!

A guest post by Antonio – Startup Life 1/2013 intern from Kanjoya. So you have gone past the impossible, applied to a cool San Francisco startup, passed like a champ through one interview after another, and got your visa without [...]

5 Deadly Sins You Should Never Commit at Startup Life.

1. Set your public Linkedin profile visible to NONE. Linkedin is your online CV which is more transparent and can be used in far smarter way than the conventional pdf-based CV. Of course, you know all these. BUT! please set [...]

Being the Business person in a Startup

So you decided to join a startup, but don’t have the slightest idea about your role in the organization. While everybody else is focused on building the perfect product, coding, designing and producing away, you’ll feel like the black sheep [...]

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Info Sessions:
Coming soon.

Application Period:
Now open. Get aboard!

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