We first covered Extreme University back in June 2009. The 12 week program has completed and there are a great crop of early stage software startups.
What is ExtremeU?
ExtremeU is an investment and educational program run by Extreme Venture Partners. It is a 12 week program that provides small founding teams (2-3 people) with US$5,000/founder and shared office space for the 12 week program in exchange for 10% of the company. You gain access to shared resources (mentors, servers, outside speakers, the odd beer and/or lunch). It’s a program that is in the same vain as TechStars, YCombinator and SeedCamp, though there are significant differences in the programs, funding and delivery between these four incarnation.
Who are the graduating companies?
My first commentary is only one of these companies, Assetize, manages to have a corporate web site. It’s like everyone did very well in Extreme University, but 2 out of 3 failed the required course on corporate marketing. Unbelievable, though it is possible that I’m being a cranky old man that wants to see a standard web site/blog with a home page, an about us page, a contact page, etc. One of the companies, Locationary, is launching in stealth mode. And it’s unclear if they’ll be cooperating to provide details for their launch.
Over the next week, I’ll be providing deeper posts into each of the 3 startups (maybe) that include details about each of the companies, their market, the problem they solve, and their founding team.
Stay tuned.
Seriously? No public web presence? For SEO alone, that should start day one …. never mind potential investors. The 401 password protected on Locationary is particularly cute.
Seriously? No public web presence? For SEO alone, that should start day one …. never mind potential investors. The 401 password protected on Locationary is particularly cute.
It’s unimaginable! You get the chance to tell your story. To connect with investors, journalists, potential customers. And still the decision is not to include a web presence.
It's unimaginable! You get the chance to tell your story. To connect with investors, journalists, potential customers. And still the decision is not to include a web presence.
David, could you please update your links to Locationary.com? Thank you… -G.
David, could you please update your links to Locationary.com? Thank you… -G.
David, could you please update your links to Locationary.com? Thank you… -G.