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Startup No 201   TIMBA (The Interesting MBA) is an online program that teaches the entire Business School curriculum in 1,000 stories and videos available as TED talks, YouTube videos and even TikTok footage. Participants vote for the most interesting material in a "Trip Advisor"-style ratings system that determines whether content remains on the programme or gets dropped. The program hires actors to produce in-house videos on a minority of subjects and theoretical topics that have not been covered on existing platforms. Auditing the TIMBA program is free of charge but participants who want to receive a certificate of completion pay a fee. Such participants are not required to take exames but have to re-watch key parts of the content once or twice again months later, to ensure memory retention in line with the "forgetting curve" timeline. CEO QUOTE "Don't we all have horrible memories of the drudgery of school and university courses. TIMBA is the exact oppo...

StartupRealities No 167 ClubCelebr is an event organiser which brings together B-list celebrity authors and speakers such as Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin and puts on various activities that pool their followers and ideas. The joint activities include: A) Publishing books with different chapters contributed by different ClubCelebr authors. B) Delivering MBA programs, with each celebrity guest-teaching in several classes. C) Participating in TV talk shows with several members contributing commentary in every episode. CEO QUOTE " ClubCelebr is forming K-pop groups of intellectuals who are already famous, but not super famous like the Kardashians or Lady Gaga or the Queen. We are trying to create new Bloomsbury Sets and new Schools of Athens . The rule of thumb is that if your computer spellcheck underlines the name of the celebrity or if your voice recognition dictation does not transcribe the name correctly, they haven’t made it to the stratospheric celebrity level yet and c...