StartupRealities

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...