StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 105 TheFunMBA is a management education company which runs an Online MBA based exclusively on fun exercises, interesting content and viral videos. #TheFunMBA does not use any traditional lecturing, nor any traditional case studies. Instead, the focus is on experiential learning, current mini-cases, memorable stories and gripping visual content. CEO QUOTE "If young people nowadays spend their time on Netflix and TikTok, we should all be using content from Netflix and TikTok when teaching to them. The #TikTokMBA is another name that our students use for TheFunMBA programme and we all agree this is a compliment. There are so many metaphorical parallels that you can draw in education using Netflix memes, even when using extreme ones such as #ChicagoSunroof or #SquatCobbler. With material like this, teaching and learning will never be boring again," said company founder and CEO Fiona Mbembe. TikTok logo (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 96 ShakespeareCube is a musical and movie production company which develops modern productions by merging three classical works of the same author into one. The company's first production was an agglomeration of Shakespeare's Hamlet (set in Denmark), Othello (set in Italy) and King Lear (set in Britain) into an interconnected plot. This gave the name to the company. The resulting plot was a modern trans-European movie under the invented portmanteau title Hamothlea (Hamlet-Othello-Lear). CEO QUOTE "Our movies and musicals help introduce the younger generation to the classics of world literature. We intertwine the original plots creatively, so that there is smooth flow between characters and locations from the three original works. My big inspiration for this model is the 1999 ABBA musical 'Mamma Mia!'  The real challenge for us are authors who have left fewer than three major works, e.g. Harper Lee with 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and ...