3DS NYC 2013 Fall Program Launches Five New Startups 15 participants, five mentors, four panelists and a team of entrepreneur volunteers led to the success of the Fall 2013 3DS NYC program which launched five ventures into the NYC startup ecosystem. New York, NY (November 26, 2013)— 3DS NYC, a chapter of 3 Day Startup, Inc, a global nonprofit organization providing mentorship and guidance to university students and entrepreneurs seeking to launch startup companies, hosted its 2013 Fall program on November 2224 at the newly opened COWORKRS space at 115 E. 23rd Street in New York City. Day one brought 15 selected participants together to brainstorm and vote on their startup ideas, form teams, and create a plan of action for their startup over the weekend. On day two, participants took to the streets to market test ideas, conduct industry research, create wireframes and proptypes, budgets, and strategic marketing plans. “Our participants receive handson training throughout the weekend from seasoned professionals in marketing, finance, legal, real estate, entrepreneurship and technology” said Matthew King, Managing Director of MK Capital Resources, LLC and current lead organizer of 3DS NYC. Mentors included Ryan Hubbard, CTO at Yellowhammer Media; Dimitris Kouvaros, Early Stage Team at Silicon Valley Bank; Danny Chen, CoFounder at Online Trading Platform and NYU Think Tank; Delisha Grant, Attorney with the Law Office of Delisha J. Grant; and Nile Lundgren, President at Dallien Realty. Participants practiced pitching with TinyPass Account Executive, 3DS Global Facilitator and 3DS NYC Founder / Advisor , Luke Carrière, and pitch coach, Precious L. Williams, Esq of Perfect Pitches by Precious, LLC. . Teams closed the program Sunday night pitching to an esteemed panel of veteran advisors and investors. Panelists asked questions of presenting startups and provided advice on how to improve their plans. Startups formed during the program include: Praxia Developed by participants Andrew Kingsley, Ian Grotton and Mohammed Ahmed, Praxia is a venture designed to help credit unions and community development finance institutions (CDFI’s) pool resources together to fund community based projects. FlashReview Developed by participants Raiyan Syed, Yamil Burgos, Jason Lyn, and Eugene Young, FlashReview makes incentivizing shortterm reviews easy for restaurants and customers. FlexMindset Developed by participants Sophia Chan, Brain Veith and Eugene Young, FlexMindset is making it easy for career minded individuals to access job, life and mental coaching for success in the workplace. UnitedEstates Developed by participants Anya Nevtonova, Ilana Elbaz, Jie Zhou, and Koneil Sylvester, United Estates is building an Etrade for Real Estate, making it easy for brokers to access clients ready to purchase properties.
Gorilla Traders Developed by participants Leonid Levit, Neil Prendergast and Joe Skupinsky, Gorilla Traders is making stock market trading easy and cheap for students through skillbased payper trading contests. To interview participants from the fall 2013 program or for other information about the program email
[email protected]. or visit our website at www.nyc.3daystartup.org Fall 2013 supporters included Dumbo Startup Lab, COWORKRS, Global Entrepreneurship Week, Silicon Valley Bank, TechWeek, The Law Office of Delisha Grant, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic, Dallien Realty, Perfect Pitches by Precious, MK Capital Resources, LLC. TinyPass, a new ecommerce for content startup, sponsored food for the weekend. For supporter website links visit http://nyc.3daystartup.org/supporters/ 3DS NYC will start planning for its spring 2014 program after the holiday’s and is looking for monetary sponsors, supporters, volunteers, entrepreneurs, students, mentors, and investor panelists for their spring 2014 program. For more information, email
[email protected]. About 3DS Inc The mission of 3 Day Startup Inc is to build entrepreneurial capabilities and cultures on university campuses. We do this by helping teams at universities around the globe organize 3DS events that help turn students into entrepreneurs, and connect those students with a powerful network of mentors, investors and advisors. For more information visit www.3daystartup.org
