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Startup No 201   TIMBA (The Interesting MBA) is an online program that teaches the entire Business School curriculum in 1,000 stories and videos available as TED talks, YouTube videos and even TikTok footage. Participants vote for the most interesting material in a "Trip Advisor"-style ratings system that determines whether content remains on the programme or gets dropped. The program hires actors to produce in-house videos on a minority of subjects and theoretical topics that have not been covered on existing platforms. Auditing the TIMBA program is free of charge but participants who want to receive a certificate of completion pay a fee. Such participants are not required to take exames but have to re-watch key parts of the content once or twice again months later, to ensure memory retention in line with the "forgetting curve" timeline. CEO QUOTE "Don't we all have horrible memories of the drudgery of school and university courses. TIMBA is the exact oppo...

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...

StartupRealities No 150 ViewAssessor  is a restaurant rating service which assesses the view from each restaurant and gives it a star rating, TripAdvisor-style. The company also pre-assesses properties for viability of conversion into restaurants and bars based on the view that the property's windows and terraces afford. CEO QUOTE " Why do people go to a restaurant? Three reasons: the food, the company and the view. However, food is more or less a commodity nowadays, unless you are diving into the culinary arts space. The company - you bring with yourself. So what's left is the view. We are the tripadvisor of the vistas that restaurants and cocktail bars open up for their customers and we are proud to do what we do ," said ViewAssessor founder and CEO  Vierra Assey . View of London from Crystal Palace (July 5, 2020)