<br/><span style= "font-size:18pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">So, what is 3DS?</span><br/><span style="font-size:small12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">3 Day Startup (3DS) </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicodeCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">is a student-founded organization that strives to activate entrepreneurial potential across the globe by offering free, experiential entrepreneurship education for students in any field. The skills and experience acquired during a three-day Startup weekend will prepare students to blossom in successful entrepreneurship ecosystems,lucida grandeespecially technology-based ventures. By connecting students,sanseducators and industry leaders-serif">Overview3DS fosters a network of growth and has established an everlasting educational community that spans the globe!</span><br/><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">You might be asking yourself, “How can 3 days be enough to learn entrepreneurship?” As one of the world’s leading entrepreneurial startup educators, the unique structure and experiential learning models employed by 3DS provide necessary resources equivalent to 6-9 months of training, in just one weekend! During the three day course, approximately 40 students from various disciplines will guide their startup ideas through the design thinking process, culminating in a final presentation to a board consisting of field experts and investors! 3DS provides participants with modules, contacts, team-builders, and other accommodations such as meals and free server storage.</span> =
<span style="font-size:small12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">More specifically, the 3DS Startup weekend itinerary consists of:</span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">[httpDay 1:Targets Ideation, Team Formation, and the Lean Canvas module</span></3daystartup.org/ 3 li><li><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Day Startup][http2://youtu.be/HjtKebKyVp4 [1]]Focuses on Customer Discovery, Rapid Prototyping, and Mentorship</span><br/li></spanli> <span style="font-size:small12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Day 3: Encompasses How to Pitch, Final Pitch, and Joining the Network.</span></li></ul><br/><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">Watch their Please visit the website http://3daystartup.org/about/ or watch the following video herefor more information:</span>[http://youtu.be/HjtKebKyVp4 <span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">http://youtu.be/HjtKebKyVp4]</span>]<br/></spanp dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"> <span style="font-size:small18pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Creating Success by Exploring YOUR Ideas</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">As a 501© nonprofit organization, 3 Day Startup delivers some of the best experiential entrepreneurship training with educational programs that accomodate students from around the world! 3 Day Startup is boasts a non-profit start-up to help distinctly high success rate, with sponsored events resulting in more successful startups than any other start-upsthree day entrepreneurship event. They were founded out of Startup Weekend provides an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs in the University of Texas at AustinTech & STEAM fields, and have grown globally since.3 Day Startup has led to over 41 technology startups acquiring over $14 million in investments!</span></spanp> <span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-sizealign:smalljustify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">From 3daystartup.org: </span></span> <span style="font-size:small12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-serif"><span style="line:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-heightspace: 21pxpre">The idea By offering a variety of events and courses such as economic development, skill-building, accelerator/competition readiness- 3 Day Startup is simple: start tech companies over tailored for high school and university students as well as those in the course of three daysenterprise, intermediate and professional phases. We rent work space for an entire weekend, recruit 45 student participants from a wide range of backgrounds3 Day Startup is sponsored by Microsoft and Rackspace, cater food where students receive free technology and drinksserver access for quick building! While focusing on tech startups, and bring in top3 day Startup is all-notch entrepreneurs inclusive, and investors. The participants pick encourages participation by all majors at the best ideas for startups during the Friday brainstorming session and deliver prototypes and investor pitches on Sunday nightuniversity level.</span></spanp></spanp dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"> <span style="font-size:small12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">3 Day The 3DS Startup really focuses weekend is unlike anything you’ve experienced before! 3DS rents out work space for the entire three day weekend and caters food and drinks, all while bringing together ~45 student participants and dozens of successful entrepreneurs and investors. On day 1, the participants select the best startup ideas during a brainstorming session, and then work throughout the weekend to deliver a prototype and pitch to investors on Sunday evening. With a focus on learning -by -doing. Through the , 3DS encourages interdisciplinary teams, you go out and to talk to with real customers, and act in a the microcosm of what the start-up startup world actually feels like.</span></spanp><br/> <span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent: 36pt; text-sizealign:smalljustify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">An Below is an example schedule from 3daystartup.orgof a 3DS Startup weekend itinerary:</span></spanp><br/> <span stylep dir="font-size:smallltr"><span style="fontline-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-familybottom: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans0pt; text-serifalign: justify">Friday</span></span><ul style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px12pt; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serifCalibri; vertical-aligncolor: baseline#000000; marginbackground-color: 0px 0px 30pxtransparent; paddingfont-weight: 0px700; listfont-style:normal; font-positionvariant: initialnormal; listtext-styledecoration:none; vertical-imagealign: initialbaseline; colorwhite-space:pre">Friday:</span></p><br/><ul style="margin-top: rgb(100, 100, 100)0pt; linemargin-heightbottom: 21px0pt;"><li><span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-sizealign:smalljustify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">2pm: meet & greet, split up into brainstorming groups</span></spanp></li><li><span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-sizealign:smalljustify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">7pm: dinner & pitch ideas</span></spanp></li><li><span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:23pt; text-sizealign:smalljustify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">Decide on best idea(s), start workworking!</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:23pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Saturday:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:23pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Customer interaction, coding, market validation, business plans, logos, etc.</span></p></li>
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<span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:23pt; text-sizealign:smalljustify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">SaturdaySunday:</span></spanp><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><ul li><p dir="ltr" style="borderline-height:1.2; margin-top: 0px0pt; outlinemargin-bottom: 0px0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14px12pt; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serifCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:pre">6pm: dinner & meet panelists</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top: 0px 0px 30px0pt; paddingmargin-bottom: 0px0pt; listtext-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-positionweight: initial400; listfont-style:normal; font-imagevariant: initialnormal; colortext-decoration: rgb(100, 100, 100)none; linevertical-heightalign: 21pxbaseline;white-space:pre">7pm: pitch startup(s) to panel</span></p></li><li><span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:23pt; text-sizealign:smalljustify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">Customer interactionLaunch prototype, coding, market validation, business plans, logos, etc.elect board</span></spanp></li>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:small12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Note on equity</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">Sunday:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><spanstyle="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">3DS non-profit organization will receive 0.5% of </span><ul span style="borderfont-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight: 0px700; outlinefont-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align: 0pxbaseline; white-space:pre">dilutable </span><span style="font-size: 14px12pt; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serifCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:pre">equity in any companies that are formed based around ideas presented during the final pitches, if a patent is sought and the company adheres to the structures of the FCC laws. 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 profits from any pf the work you do!</span></p><br/><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top: 0px 0px 30px0pt; paddingmargin-bottom: 0px0pt; listtext-indent: 36pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-positionfamily:Calibri; color: initial#000000; listbackground-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-imagealign: initialbaseline; colorwhite-space: rgb(100pre">In addition to the Startup Weekend events held globally, 1003 Day Startup annually hosts a 1- 2 week Entrepreneurship Exchange program. This year’s 3DS Exchange is being held in Austin, 100); Texas and features dozens of esteemed speakers and opportunities to connect with mentors, investors, teachers, and other entrepreneurs. Aside from top-notch educational material, the 3DS Exchange provides students with global networking opportunities and the chance to meet potential venture startup investors.</span></p><br/><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 21px1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent: 36pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">.</span></p><libr/>= <span style="font-size:small18pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Host a Startup weekend at your Campus</span> =<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">6pmTo begin planning a 3DS Startup weekend at your campus, please contact 3DS directly to receive guidance and instruction throughout the process. Online forms to request an event partnership or sponsorship are available at: http: dinner & meet panelists//3daystartup.org/contact-us/</span></spanp></li><li><span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-sizealign:smalljustify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre"> 7pm: pitch startup(s) 2 - 3 Months of organization time is required to panelplan a successful event!</span></spanp></li><li><span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-sizealign:smalljustify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre"> Launch prototype, elect board3DS offers a grant program- apply to subsidize the costs and receive potential funding!</span></spanp></li>
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<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:small12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">To secure your event- "Unlock" your university by having 50 interested people</span>[http://3daystartup.org/find-your-university/ <span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">Note on equity</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">sign up</span>]</p></spanli> <li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:small12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">3DS will contact you and provide a 3DS mentor to help organize the event.</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sansCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-serifspace:pre">Begin planning the actual Startup weekend by securing a date and venue.</span ></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 21px1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">If your local organizing team decides Secure sponsorships to use the legal structurecover costs of food, t-shirts, than the 3DS non profit takes 0and any other expenses.5% of '''dilutable '''equity in companies that are formed based around ideas that are presented during the final pitches</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.  38; The purpose of margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Recruit applicants - this is to protect ideas and founders by establishing a clear chain of legal ownership for should be occurring throughout the ideasentire process!</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.  38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000;The 3DS organizers never profit or make any money from any work you dobackground-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Find mentors and panelists to serve at the actual event.</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><spanstyle="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Host the event, and be thankful you’re so well prepared!</span></p></li></ol>
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