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Ahoy, Greg here, founder of MarineVerse - virtual reality sailing. If you're interested in sailing, you might like what we're doing. https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/238 Happy to answer any questions! Best regards, Greg
I can imagine people competing against each other in short regattas from their homes. Or myself just practicing & trying a new boat.
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…
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…
Thanks for the kind words, Eric. The questions were not universal across groups... I had to come up with those each week!
They'd make a good template for the other groups--I would absolutely go back to them for thought-exercises for future ventures.
We completed startup school ( https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/470 ). Took us about 3 hours to create a Keynote presentation and add audio to it. Hopefully, this provides a somewhat different perspective. We aren't your typical founders in their twenties. Startup School was overall very positive. Speaking with our advisor, Michael Johnston was absolutely excellent. He is an absolute mensch, very helpful, c…
My startup is Mindmeld, a better way to work remotely. Check it out :)
I recommend the program to anyone thinking about starting a startup. The highlight was having live mentorship from very successful startup founders. My mentor had raised tens of millions in VC funding for his startup. He spent 2 hours with us every week. My presentation: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/242
I had a similar problem looking for a immigration lawyer. The problem with only looking at court records and other public information is it skews in favor of lawyers that take on slam-dunk cases. If a law firm successfully processed 500 green card applications for Google that isn't as impressive as being successful in processing 10 EB-1 applications for early stage startup founders. My solution was to ask for recomme…
Verified reviews are also something we'd like to add. Also, we'd want to filter the reviews to show more prominently reviews from past users who used the lawyer for the same issue.
I recommend the program to anyone thinking about starting a startup. The highlight was having live mentorship from very successful startup founders. My mentor had raised tens of millions in VC funding for his startup. He spent 2 hours with us every week. My presentation: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/242
Interesting concept, however assuming you become popular enough, then you could be victim of lawyers trying to game the metrics. What happens if a lawyer choose to only defend a lot of easy to win cases to bump up their track record close to 100%. How do you identify how hard a case was in the first place, and find the lawyers who do go after hard cases successfully.
Some of the filtering and case patterns would probably be best identified with machine learning.
As a solo founder, I found startup school invaluable. It really helped keep me honest with myself to discuss what I had done and what I will do at the weekly office hours. I would recommend Startup School to any startup but if you're a solo founder then I think you will find the weekly office hours especially valuable. Here's my presentation: Pingy is a desktop app to create, share and deploy websites: https://www.st…
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For many of the teams, english is a second or third language, and they came from areas where startups/tech are in it's infancy, so access to decent hardware is tough. With that said, we only spent a week working on videos and it's more our fault than theirs that we chose to focus on building product rather than pitching, as many companies were very early.
If they have a laptop with a microphone, they still have the ability to make a much, much more impressive presentation than nearly any of the ones I watched. Why spend hundreds of hours building your product if you spent 10 minutes writing a script you're going to read out to your webcam in a dimly lit room?
As far as I can tell, the distribution of the pitch videos is unknown (and there are hundreds of pitches) so there is no end goal, it seems to be mainly a way of sharpening one's pitch.
Here is our presentation: keereo is where pinterest meets wikipedia for antiques.