StartupRealities

Startup No 170 StartupRealities 2020 series 50HoursContent is an online video education company that recruits volunteer experts and intellectuals to dedicate one hour a week (50 hours a year) to recording video talks (video blogs = vlogs) in fields of their choosing. The company is building a TED-style catalogue of content by challenging academics and professionals to leave a legacy by contributing their thoughts to educating future generations. CEO QUOTE " We don't require contributors to dedicate their talks and videos to one field only. We let their minds roam. We appreciate that producing an hour of novel ideas and thoughts in a single field every week would be quite difficult. This is why we encourage our speakers and educators to break up their hour into six 10-minute talks on different topics. Their videos thus become a magazine-type series of video blogs (vlogs). " - said 50HoursContent founder and CEO Fifi Houghton Contador. Alexander Pope (image source...

StartupRealities No 166 StudentSocietySeeder is a franchise-model operator of university student societies organised around career trajectories and disciplines. The company sets up students societies in areas that are missing at a university campus and supports volunteer students in the governance and operation of these societies. STRUCTURE The company draws its distinctiveness from the granularity of the industry and discipline areas in which it organises the students societies. For example, there isn't just a Marketing Society; instead, there is a: - Digital Marketing Society - Guerrilla Marketing Society - B2B (Business to Business) Marketing Society - B2C (Business to Consumer) Marketing Society. Similarly, in the field of Finance, the societies are organised as: - Commercial Banking Society - Investment Banking Society - Wealth Management Society - Venture Capital and Private Equity Society - Corporate Finance Society. CEO QUOTE "We create industry-spec...