StartupsForStudents.com

*** NOTE: SITE WILL BE UPDATED SOON WITH DATES & DETAILS FOR 2019 ***

SESSIONS (and Tentative Dates)

We run part-time sessions year-round, and full-time sessions in conjunction with students’ academic break schedules — Summer Break, Winter Break, even abbreviated/intensive 1-WEEK SPRING BREAK SESSIONS if there is interest!

LOCATIONS:

Atlanta

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:

• LEARNING WHILE LAUNCHING
  / EARNING WHILE LEARNING
• MANAGE, MARKET, MONETIZE
  With guidance/mentorship from experienced startup founders, you will actually start/run REAL ventures (“Starter Startups”)
  • PICK, PROMOTE, PROFIT
  Individually and/or in Teams, Select which “Starter Startups” you will work on (via draft format) and actually share in REAL PROFITS from the projects in your startup portfolio!
  • #CollaborativeCompetitions and #CompetitiveCollaborations
  Collaborate with other program participants, but also compete against each other for additional profits and prizes (based on criteria such as: product sales, ad revenue, web traffic, social media engagement, etc.).

PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE:

• Experience, Education, and Mentoring
• *Share of Profits* from YOUR designated projects — percentages determined by performance relative to peers 
[Individual Incentive to COMPETE]
• *Share of Profits* from ALL TEAMS’ PROJECTS — percentages determined by combined performance & ALL teams hitting collective performance goals 
[Group Incentive to COLLABORATE]
• *Winners of various contests and challenges receive additional perks and prizes*

• At the conclusion of the program, all participants are given the opportunity to negotiate for ongoing participation — product profit-sharing and/or ownership/equity if venture is spun off into separate LLC — for any venture you feel you can provide ongoing value! OUR HOPE IS TO FIND SOME LONG-TERM PARTNERS AND CO-FOUNDERS!

* Note: “Profits” are defined as revenue minus expenses, accrual-based accounting, for duration of program, AND for 30 days after program concludes.

SUGGESTED (optional) BACKGROUND READING

• Read the following to familiarize yourself with the goals of the program, our background, philosophies, etc.
  ThoughtsOnStartups.com (Thoughts & Theories)
  ReThinkingStartups.com (Improvement Initiatives)
  Part-Time “Pursuit of Proof” Premises & Programs:
  StarterStartups.com / MultipleBasketStartups.com / theSWANstartup.com
• - Jeff’s Bio & Background
  IamNOTaCEO.com (Entrepreneurial Epiphanies)
  ViralWhatever.com (Experience & Expertise)
  #MyStartupStory — RH Brands Background
• www.StartupWhatever.com — (if you somehow got through all of the above and still want to read more!)

A few benefits of “STARTER STARTUPS” specifically for FIRST-TIME Founders:

• Learn while doing; an easy way to gain startup experience
• Make mistakes before they really matter
• Find out if you actually like startup life
• See how well you work with potential co-founders, employees, etc.
• Great for “Proof of Concept” or MVPs (or even a “pre-mvp”)
• You can always attempt to take it bigger later — expanding to larger markets, adding new products/services, pivoting to a bigger idea and/or consciously moving from “low risk / low reward” to “higher risk / higher reward”
• All of the above without quitting your day job (or while you’re still a student), without risking a lot of money (yours or investors’), without wasting a lot of time, etc.

Obviously the part-time “Starter Startup” thing is not going to work for all startups (or all entrepreneurs!), but there are MANY startup business concepts that can be launched/tested quickly and inexpensively…

NOTE: ViralWhatever.com has more “Starter Startups” concepts than we’ll likely ever get to on our own, so please get in touch if you’re interested in working on (or running/owning!) one of ours!