Startup School 2017 Presentations

So, here we are.

11 weeks completed, lots of great mentoring sessions and listening to conversations with the rest of the startup of the group.

11 weeks trying to find product market fit for our product and idea and at last (coinciding with the end of startup school :) it looks like we might be there there.

This week we broke a few records all together. Most importantly during these 11 weeks we discovered that many people believe in what we believe and that many know inside that recruitment should not have to be as bad as it is today.

With Fluttr we are transforming recruitment in a very social process, where candidates can learn from the job application process itself.

Where recruiters are in charge, but no longer they need to "guess" if somebody is talented simply looking at their CV. Because through our platform they can ask help assessing candidates to real experts in that job and working in other companies.

We are the AirBnB of recruitment. A warmer, more social and alternative way to find a job or a talent.

Companies recruiting and recruiters alike can now hire the best talent confident that the technical screening (we focus on Design, Marketing, Data Science and IT at this point) has been run by real experts.

They can now hire people also measuring the candidates' motivation to join the company.

They can now discover the most talented people independently of age, sex, religion and other discriminatory factors, because the "experts" never know the real identity of the job applicants.

But more importantly every job seeker receives a feedback by an expert about their application and skills and can also benchmark their own skills against the other applicants too via our platform.

If it sounds interesting here you might find a few more details: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/797

And if you want to test out platform get in touch; write me at amleto@fluttr.in or visit www.fluttr.in.

You too can help us making recruitment #awesome.

Thank you classmates, Geoff Flaherty and Y Combinator!

I enjoyed reading the comments. There might be some selection bias here but more importantly it seems that everyone found the experience to be personalised. I admit that I had doubts about how an online-only programme could possibly work, especially since next year's batch will be even larger. But I think I'm swayed.. might apply after all :)

We had an incredible experience at Startup School. I finally feel connected to a startup community I thought was out of my reach. The networking opportunities alone make the program worth every minute you put into it. Thanks to everyone that made this possible!

We made Strength of Two - get alerts from people at risk of self-harm (https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/205). Any feedback/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Startup school was super helpful. Mike Robbins from Circuitlab/Pantelligent was an amazing mentor!

Every week before our group meetup, we had a few questions to fill out that really got us thinking deeply about our business. I wouldn't have thought something as simple as a few pointed questions would yield so much fruit, but it really was awesome. The questions force you to think about on your business value, how to describe it, your target customer and how you might address them. The advice is sound, and comes from the mentor's and YC's experience, which really grounds it. We'd do it again in a heartbeat.

We've completed startup school alongside with a local accelerator program (https://kworks.ku.edu.tr/en/). As a co-founder, I have to admit that the YC network was really helpful. We've really benefited from the internal discussions and the local meetups really helped us a lot. Our mentor, Chris, kept giving us valuable insights and overall we had a great time participating.

Building a company requires a lot of time and dedication. And the biggest lesson we've learned so far from YC:SS is to keep iterating no matter what. The whole YC philosophy of having one key KPI and trying to improve it WoW no matter what is really important. It brings clarity to your decisions and helps you focus on the important stuff.

As an entrepreneur, I'm glad that our company had the opportunity to participate in this program and internalized such an important philosophy.

Here's our presentation: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/447

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Codela is a cloud-based platform for automating the technical screening of software developers using online knowledge measurements.

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