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Startup No 178 - StartupRealities 2020 series ExperienceHousing is a subscription service that allows prospective house buyers to spend a full week living at a shortlisted location to help them decide if they would want to buy and live in the given house/apartment long-term. The service allows the subscriber to experience the complexity of living at a new place, including facilities, sound and heat insulation, neighbours, transport services and the environment for a week on average. On the other hand, the service also allows sellers to benefit from an income stream while selling their place as houses for sale usually cannot be rented out during such a period. CEO QUOTE "Our service creates a win-win: the buyer has time to explore the details of living at a given venue, while the seller gets some short-term revenue. The annual subscription allows up to five weeks of living at up to 5 different locations. However, for more expensive properties, the allocation of days is red...

StartupRealities No 113 PractitionersTeach is an online directory of corporate executives, managers and other professionals who have an interest in teaching at university or in secondary education and have either experience in teaching or a teaching certificate. Experienced practitioners are commonly used to teach on MBA programmes and in acting courses, for example, but are starting to become more common outside the business school and drama department. The company has its own teaching certification, consisting of an online course and an exam. The directory also has a depository of links to videos and podcasts of teaching materials by practitioners, including YouTube videos and TED talks. CEO QUOTE "We create a marketplace, a two-sided network. On the one side there are all those gifted and experienced people who are interested in teaching and developing the talent of the next generation. On the other side are all the education institutions, which desperately need current an...

StartupRealities No 89 ExperienceMBA is an education company that delivers a full-time 12-month education programme for graduate students composed of one-month service postings at 12 different organisations. The postings are a series of CSR-focused companies or charities such as: a shelter for homeless people,  an orphanage,  an emergency response and ambulance service,  a municipal rubbish collection company,  a drug addiction clinic,  a climate change charity a zoo, etc.  Students are admitted and move through the 12 rotations as a monthly carousel, so that a new group of students replaces the previous group at each organisation at the beginning of each month. CEO QUOTE "We don't teach courses in a classroom. We teach experience in the field. We don't simply talk about corporate-social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability: we make it happen." said ExperienceMBA founder and CEO Exel Mbambo. Traditional MBA lecture theatre (imag...