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 (~3 months), Winter Break (~3 weeks).

LOCATIONS:

Atlanta

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:

With guidance/mentorship from experienced startup founders, you will actually start/run REAL ventures (what we refer to as “Starter Startups”)*

• LEARNING WHILE LAUNCHING
  (and, hopefully, EARNING WHILE LEARNING!)
• MANAGE & MARKET (& MONETIZE?)
• 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/products — 
  [Individual Incentive to COMPETE]
• *Share of Profits* from ALL TEAMS’ PROJECTS — 
  [Group Incentive to COLLABORATE]
• *Winners of various contests and challenges receive additional perks/prizes/profits*
• At the conclusion of the program, all participants are given the opportunity to negotiate for continued/ongoing participation (profit-sharing and/or real 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

• Regarding 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
• Get WAY MORE experience in WAY MORE areas than any traditional internship
• Make mistakes before they really matter
• Find out if you actually like startup life
• See how well you work with potential FUTURE partners, co-founders, employees, etc.
• Crawl. Then Walk. Then Run. 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 Startups” 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… particularly those based around some of our ViralWhatever.com “Lessons Learned”