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= <span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Overview<br/span><br/span></span> =
<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">[http://3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup][http://youtu.be/HjtKebKyVp4 [1]]<br/span><br/span></span>
<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Watch their video here:[http://youtu.be/HjtKebKyVp4 http://youtu.be/HjtKebKyVp4]</span></span>
<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">3 Day Startup is a non-profit start-up to help other start-ups. They were founded out of the University of Texas at Austin, and have grown globally since.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">From 3daystartup.org:</span></span>
<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(100, 100, 100); line-height: 21px">The idea of 3 Day Startup is simple: start tech companies over the course of three days. We rent work space for an entire weekend, recruit 45 student participants from a wide range of backgrounds, cater food and drinks, and bring in top-notch entrepreneurs and investors. The participants pick the best ideas for startups during the Friday brainstorming session and deliver prototypes and investor pitches on Sunday night.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">3 Day Startup really focuses on learning by doing. Through the interdisciplinary teams, you go out and talk to real customers, and act in a microcosm of what the start-up world feels like.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">An example schedule from 3daystartup.org:</span></span>
<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Friday</span></span>
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<li><span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">2pm: meet & greet, split up into brainstorming groups</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">7pm: dinner & pitch ideas</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Decide on best idea(s), start work!</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Saturday</span></span>
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<li><span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Customer interaction, coding, market validation, business plans, logos, etc.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Sunday</span></span>
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<li><span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">6pm: dinner & meet panelists</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif"> 7pm: pitch startup(s) to panel</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif"> Launch prototype, elect board</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Note on equity:</span></span>
<span style="font-size:smallersmall"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(100, 100, 100); line-height: 21px">If your local organizing team decides to use the legal structure, than the 3DS non profit takes 0.5% of '''dilutable '''equity in companies that are formed based around ideas that are presented during the final pitches. The purpose of this is to protect ideas and founders by establishing a clear chain of legal ownership for the ideas. The 3DS organizers never profit or make any money from any work you do.</span></span></span>
= <span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Purpose<br/></span> =