No applications. No selection. Tell us who you are and you'll be the first to know when the first night is set.
Sign-up opens soon. Follow @ynothq to hear first.Do I fit?
Do I have to be a student?
No. You don't need a school, a club or a referral. High schoolers and students are here, and so are people already doing their own thing outside school.
Do I need a startup or an idea?
No. Some already run a company, some only want to start doing. There is room for both.
Do I have to code?
No. Founders, athletes, musicians, esports players, event makers, creators and craftspeople are all here. Technical builders come to learn how to sell.
Do I have to speak Finnish?
No. Finnish works, English works.
How old do I have to be?
YNOT is for people roughly 15 to 29. Older builders come as guests and mentors, but the community and its decisions belong to the young.
Is there an application or a selection?
No applications, no selection. Tell us who you are and you're in. You can always bring a friend.
Do I need to know how to pitch?
You don't need to know it yet. Pitching is an important skill, and here you practise it together and get support for it. The same goes for everything else: here you can do whatever you want.
Do you take equity?
Not for now. YNOT is an association, not an investor.
Do I have to live in Helsinki?
No. We start in Helsinki, but the goal is for this to spread to new places, with a crowd in every big city. Tell us where you are.
What if I haven't done anything yet?
Then you start now. You don't have to explain yourself here, and what failed gets told out loud too.