StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 81 StoryFinder is a crowdsourcing and AI company that collects interesting stories for use in education, government, politics and the media. The company's AI bot trawls Wikipedia, news websites and school textbooks for interesting stories that can be repurposed and used in different ways. StoryFinder also crowdsources stories from the public in the format of various competitions and entertainment games. The company publishes a series of popular books called "100 Stories on ...". CEO QUOTE "Stories are fascinating education and learning tools. No one can resist a speaker who starts with 'Let me tell you a story.' What if the entire school curriculum could be put in 10,000 stories? Would so many children still reject formal education then?" - asked company founder and CEO Stormy Finn. Storyteller (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 24 CreativePatchwork Limited is a copywriting agency that parcels out creative projects via its online freelancing platform among groups of authors, creative writing students, professors and practitioners. The CreativePatchwork platform resembles freelancing sites such as Upwork or Fiverr but is dedicated only to creative projects and ads (commercials), which helps focus and attract in large numbers both project owners (assigners) and creative professionals. The company uses two different approaches for allocating jobs. 1) COMPETITIONS: Competitions offer a prize for a single winner. Competing creative professionals are more often men. (Research shows that males feel more incentivised by projects of a competitive nature.) 2) GROUP PROJECTS Group projects allow groups of up to 5 professionals to be formed to carry out a given task. The platform allocates an additional coffee budget for each group project (reimbursed as expenses), which makes physical meetu...

StartupRealities No 14 StartupFiction Limited is an event organiser of science and entrepreneurship journalism competitions focused on developing fictitious stories about fictional science-based startups. Several dozen national StartupFiction competitions are held each year across the world, with the winners going on to compete in an annual global competition. The only two rules of the competition are that A) the startup ideas developed in the story line have to be novel but not implemented yet, and B) science and recent scientific discoveries and advances should have some role in the business model of the startup. TARGET AUDIENCE The StartupFiction competitions target three main types of participants: A) Entrepreneurial writers; B) Ideation practitioners; C) Failed entrepreneurs (who often have clever ideas but are not keen on execution, i.e. the operational side of managing and growing a business). AWARDS & JUDGING The competition has global awards in a dozen...