Startup School

Pitch your Startup! No. 4 _ July 5th

The "Pitch your Startup" session No. 4 was a pleasure. Thx to everybody for making this another great session. Another great judge joined Stefano Bernardi from startup.eu: Jeff D'Urso (Linkedin) - a well known serial entrepreneur who donated one hour to three exciting upcoming entrepreneurs.

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Imagine the first pitch as a Linux of search engines - an open source platform where the crowd can merge their search algorithm to create tailored search engines adopted to the individual need. And believe or not this platform exists already and is called Buscaplus - an exciting Spanish start-up. The founder JorgeAlegre gave us some very interesting insights on this visionary project.
The need for customizable search for the rapidly growing growing content online - intuitively seems to be something the world is desperately waiting for. Currently the start-up is focused on the Spanish market. But they are eying to enter other cultural hemispheres as well. The young start-up is looking for ambitious developers and marketing specialists.

The second very promising pitch was by Kave from Argentina. He was part of the founding team of Cramster and is also the CEO & CoFounder of Liquiddesigners. His current - even more promising - project "UniLanguage" is the third startup in his vita. The very exciting new tool for language learning goes one step further beyond the idea of social learning and tries to add value with a number of new innovative learning methods tackling multiple intelligences. With a very interessting monetization concept that is based on local incomes, a very experienced core team and the development based in Argentina make UniLanguage definitely potential big player. Currently they are searching for Angels in the Silicon Valley.

The third and last pitch was by Satyajit Sahu with "Got Clues" - a standalone website to create and take quizzes that incorporate various forms of media..
The platform provides quiz creators with a powerful tool to create highly customized  quizzes. Since numerous Quiz apps are currently flooding facebook with huge success in generating revenue through advertisement - a standalone application with additional features seems like a good bet. The two person team with more than a decade experience in the Silicon Valley is currently searching for people who can help with marketing. If you feel interested - you can contact Satty via Startup School.

The next session of "Pitch your Startup" is coming up only 2 days.
Everybody who is searching for a new investment, a new team or the fresh flair of interesting entrepreneurs from around the world I highly recommend to join!

You can address Jorge, Kave and Satty through Startup School. Check out the recording of "Pitch your Startup No. 4"  on Startup School or ping me for more contact information.

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As Startup School lives from amazing entrepreneurs meeting from all over the world I highly encourage you to ping me for an invite.

The next "Pitch your Startup No. 5" event is coming up on the 19th of July.
Check out the facebook event for more information or join the session directly on Startup School.

cheers,

Bjoern Lasse Herrmann - Startup School Evangelist

http://startup.supercoolschool.com

ATTENTION:

Startup School is an invite only plattform for entrepreneurs. If you would like to join please contact me bjoern@supercoolschool.com

Social Media Learning

No, this post is not about how to make money using social networks. It's something else. Now that we have made it clear, read on.

We have been hearing about education 2.0 , e-learning, e-education for long. And most of the countries, if not all, have already implemented this mode of education which has been readily accepted worldwide. Now what on earth is Social Media Learning?

Well, let's think of a simple situation where you are stuck in a simple task like creating a layer in photoshop, or upgrading your operating system, or you just aren't sure how to install a component in Joomla. Think what would you do first. If this I were at your place, I would first check if any of my "geek" friends (We always have one, don't we ;) ?) is online to help me out. If I don't find any, I will simply "tweet" the question and head over to Google and search for the same. And not-so-surprisingly, I find some very easy tutorials posted on various forums and blogs. Or even in form of videos in Youtube or maybe easy step by step slideshows in Slideshare. Sounds familiar? Exactly! Now we're actually talking. We didn't find the answer on university books in Google, nor we learnt from our professors. We learnt socially.

How many times have you been to your professors for such simple (sometimes silly) questions? Let me guess, never! And this is what I call Social Media Learning. We are so used to it that we don't even care to buy guides and DIY books anymore. If you login to facebook, you can easily find about half of your "friends" posting simple questions, same for twitter. We learn easily when taught by a friend or someone like ourselves, who has learnt from his own experience, appreciates the question and is genuinely willing to help, rather than by university professors who, well...whatever.

And at Supercool School, we appreciate and actively encourage Social Media Learning. We invite people with experience who are willing to guide many other people who want to learn, socially. We arrange classes where people around the world can see, talk and listen to one another, still being in the place they're most comfortable at, right in front of their home computers. There are ALWAYS some interesting classes going on. We invite you to be a part of the session. Learn or teach fellow individuals like you.

We, at Startup School, are proud to present a platform to you where you can share your knowledge and learn new interesting things apart from meeting great individuals and businesses. All while sitting in front of your computer screens, without spending a dime! If you believe you have some knowledge to share, it may be anything, come forward and take a class. You never know how many people can be benefitted when you teach something which might seem to you as a very simple task.

What would you like to teach today?

Good Luck!

Arun Pattnaik
Startup School Evangelist
http://startup.supercoolschool.com