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Startup No 182 - StartupRealities 2020 series InHouseSkunkWorks is an innovation and startup accelerator company that helps established corporations launch and manage their own corporate accelerators for startup projects in their industry, unimpeded by corporate bureaucracy. The company's slogan is "We Try Out Your Crazy Ideas". The company uses a standard template accelerator structure (a white label / original equipment manufacturer OEM-type format) and adds modifications depending on the project. The name is inspired by the original Lockheed Skunk Works . CEO QUOTE "Some people think our name comes from the Ali G Indahouse movie. No! We are for real! The best way to describe what we do is to draw an analogy with Rocket Internet: we create a scalable fail-safe project execution environment where it is safe to iterate and pivot business models and innovations." - said  InHouseSkunkWorks founder and CEO Inna Skundberg. The original Skunk Works in Palmdale, Cali...

StartupRealities No 118 CreatingSeating  is an innovation and design company which helps airlines rebrand and upgrade their economy-class plane seats. The company's key focus is renaming window seats as #CreativeSeats, as these seats allow maximum privacy for the passenger, while gazing out of the window of a flying plane is known to enhance creativity and ideation. For passengers who would use the window blinds as a headrest to help them sleep, the company has designed additional headrests that are fitted at the top of aisle and middle seats. The company recommends that windows blinds should not be pulled down or the windows darkened (depending on the plane model) during flight to allow passengers in window seats to interact with and be inspired by the outside world. CEO QUOTE "Passengers who want to doze off on the plane usually ask for a window seat. But that's such a waste. Windows exist for a reason: to allow us to look out of them, not to prop our sleeping heads...

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...

Introduction to Startup Realities At Startup Realities: 1) The business models are real: all production, operation, marketing and finance strategies make commercial sense. 2) The science is real: from proven fundamental science to innovations and scientific discoveries published in the last several days. Any unconfirmed scientific hypotheses are marked as such ("hypothesis yet to be tested") 3) The startups are hypothetical but realistic, or at least feasible. After all, "the value of an idea lies in the using of it", said Thomas Edison. After all, the world is fractal: one thing leads to another and patterns repeat. Watch out for these patterns as they invariably lead to the next startup. Mandelbrot set fractal (Source: Wikipedia )