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Startup No 196 - #StartupRealities 2020 series Applied Entrepreneurship Platform is a global university network which promotes the teaching of entrepreneurship to all university students, irrespective of their academic background and university major. The network is at the same time also a faculty platform for entrepreneurs who are interested in and good at teaching; and a membership platform for budding entrepreneurs and potential future startup founders.  South Korean TV series "Startup" (Image source:  Wikipedia ) The universities who are members of the network offer at least one Entrepreneurship course to every single bachelors and masters student and make it known to their students that they are expected to take one course, usually called Applied Entrepreneurship. CEO QUOTE "Clearly we don't believe that every single university student will become an entrepreneur. What we expect is that every single university student will develop an entrepreneurial mindset. We...

Startup No 187 - StartupRealities 2020 series  EntrepreneurshipScore is a rankings company that compiles an annual ranking of the world's 1,000 leading entrepreneurs and calculates a separate entrepreneurship rating to anyone who requests this service. The #EntrepreneursRanking is similar to the ranking of tennis players and is based on a range of factors in the following categories:  - profitability of one's startups/scale-ups;  - value of owned company stakes, shares and assets;  - dividends and salary income received;  - funding raised from investors and venture capitalists (VC); and  - positive media exposure during the year. The company shortlists fewer than 2,000 entrepreneurs globally for the Top-1,000 #EntrepreneursRanking and compiles the ranking free of charge for the ranked individuals. On the other hand, the #EntrepreneurshipRating is based on similar factors but is a paid service open to anyone. All ratings are made public once compiled and ran...

Startup No 179 - StartupRealities 2020 series ChildhoodEntrepreneurship is a school franchise that teaches school children and university students how to become entrepreneurs. Six different levels of the curriculum exist for kindergarten kids, primary, middle and high school students, and bachelor and masters students. The curriculum applies the Shang/上   methodology of developing a broad foundation, an aspirational specialisation and soft skills (social acumen) primarily through experiential exercises. Business Planning is taught from middle school onwards but basic concepts such as profit are developed from as early as kindergarten (nursery/daycare). CEO QUOTE "We sometimes get accused of inflating an entrepreneurial bubble by encouraging children and young people of all ages and backgrounds to start up companies. But this is far from the truth. We help children and young adults develop an enrepreneurial mindset, which would be useful for them in any vocation and industry. ...

StartupRealities No 145 Academics&Professionals is an education consultancy which uses peer-review teams to carry out accreditation, consulting and benchmarking projects at university departments which have not had access to such services previously. Business schools (management departments), engineering schools and medical schools are already part of well-developed international (voluntary) accreditation systems and are not a target for the company. The primary target customers are departments in other fields that do not have such processes or systems in place, including: Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Geology) Life Sciences (Agriculture, Biotechnology) Social Sciences (Sociology, Political Science, Media) Arts & Humanities (Languages, History, Philosophy) Technology (Computer Science) SERVICES OFFERING Academics&Professionals uses mixed teams of academics (professors, lecturers, researchers) and business practitioners related to the discipline to carry ...

StartupRealities No 100 StartupWarmup is an entrepreneurship education company which teaches children and adults Entrepreneurship using a series of startup fiction articles and videos. The company has a daily blog series of startup fiction articles which describe feasible and novel startup ideas that are yet to be implemented. CEO QUOTE "#StartupFiction is the best thing since sliced bread, buttered toast and morning coffee. It portrays an alternative reality of startups where every feasible and novel idea gets executed and grows into a company. Certainly, we know the difference between an idea and a revenue-generating company. We are not underplaying the importance of #execution in the #startup world. However, we are trying to draw attention to the initial spark of inspiration and creativity that leads to a startup idea. After all, #inspiration and #ideation are two of the three phases of #DesignThinking (together with #implementation)," explained StartupWarmup founder...

StartupRealities No 80 ScienceTransfer is a technology transfer and entrepreneurship promotion company that pairs up scientists, computer programmers and business people and encourages them to set up science-based startups. The company serves as an accelerator for such startups: it first identifies feasible scientific ideas through a range of competitions held around the world; then it matches the scientists and researchers with IT- and business-savvy co-founders to form a founding team; and then it helps the team scale up the idea into a business. CEO QUOTE "We match scientists with three types of people: hackers, hipsters and hustlers. Hackers are the coders, also known as computer programmers. The hipsters are the design people: those who tinker with user experience. And the hustlers are startup founders skilled in sales and marketing. Our motto is simple: SHHH! This stands for Scientists, Hackers, Hipsters, Hustlers," said ScienceTransfer founder and CEO Scirocco T...

StartupRealities No 59 IndustryInsideOut is an online education company that produces training courses on the operations and finance models of different industries and sectors with the aim of training entrepreneurs and potential COOs, CFOs and CEOs. The courses of the company allow people interested in a given industry (e.g. airlines or concrete production or art galleries) to gain basic or more in-depth knowledge of all operational aspects of the sector so that they can start running a business in the given field. CEO QUOTE "How many hairdressers own the business they work in? The answer is just a few. What stops the rest from setting up shop themselves? The answer is the daunting uncertainty of running a business. Here is where we step in to help. Our online course: The Hair and Barber Salon IndustryInsideOut can give all these skillful people the wherewithal to run their own business. We promote entrepreneurship and empower people: in this sector and in several hundred oth...

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...