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<p dir= Overview "ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify" id="docs-internal-guid-53dca21e-e80b-e4b4-cd10-8d3efb23f4b4"><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></p>[http<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">3 Day Startup (3DS) <//3daystartupspan><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">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, especially technology-based ventures.orgBy connecting students, educators and industry leaders- 3DS fosters a network of growth and has established an everlasting educational community that spans the globe!</]From 3daystartup.org:span>

<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color: rgb(100, 100, 100)#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-familystyle: Georgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serifnormal; font-sizevariant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align: 14pxbaseline; linewhite-heightspace: 21pxpre">The idea You might be asking yourself, “How can 3 days be enough to learn entrepreneurship?” As one of 3 Day Startup is simple: start tech companies over the course 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 days. We rent work space for an entire weekendday course, recruit 45 student participants approximately 40 students from various disciplines will guide their startup ideas through the design thinking process, culminating in a wide range final presentation to a board consisting of backgroundsfield experts and investors! 3DS provides participants with modules, cater food and drinkscontacts, and bring in topteam-notch entrepreneurs and investors. The participants pick the best ideas for startups during the Friday brainstorming session builders, and deliver prototypes other accommodations such as meals and investor pitches on Sunday nightfree server storage.</span> An example schedule from 3daystartup.org: Friday<ul br/><span style="borderfont-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color: 0pxtransparent; outlinefont-weight: 0px400; font-sizestyle: 14pxnormal; font-familyvariant:normal; text-decoration: Georgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serifnone; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:pre">More specifically, the 3DS Startup weekend itinerary consists of:</span><ul style="margin-top: 0px 0px 30px0pt; paddingmargin-bottom: 0px0pt; list"><li><span style="font-stylesize: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">Day 1: Targets Ideation, Team Formation, and the Lean Canvas module<li/span>2pm: meet & greet, split up into brainstorming groups</li><li>7pm<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 2: dinner & pitch ideasFocuses on Customer Discovery, Rapid Prototyping, and Mentorship</span></li><li>Decide on best idea(s)<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 3: Encompasses How to Pitch, Final Pitch, start work!and Joining the Network.</span></li>

Saturday<ul br/><span style="borderfont-size:12pt; font-family: 0pxCalibri; outlinecolor: 0px#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Please visit the website</span>[http://3daystartup.org/about/ <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; marginwhite-space: 0px 0px 30pxpre"></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; paddingcolor: 0px#1155cc; listbackground-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-positionvariant: initialnormal; listtext-styledecoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-imageskip: initialnone; colortext-decoration-skip-ink: rgb(100, 100, 100)none; linevertical-heightalign: 21pxbaseline;white-space:pre">http://3daystartup.org/about/<li/span>Customer interaction, coding, market validation, business plans, logos, etc.]</lispan 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">or watch the following video</ulspan>

Sunday<ul span style="borderfont-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color: 0pxtransparent; outlinefont-weight: 0px400; font-sizestyle: 14pxnormal; font-familyvariant:normal; text-decoration: Georgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serifnone; vertical-align: baseline; marginwhite-space:pre">for more information: </span>[http://youtu.be/HjtKebKyVp4 <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color: 0px 0px 30pxtransparent; paddingfont-weight: 0px400; listfont-style:normal; font-positionvariant: initialnormal; listtext-styledecoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-imageskip: initialnone; colortext-decoration-skip-ink: rgb(100, 100, 100)none; linevertical-heightalign: 21pxbaseline;white-space:pre"><li>6pmhttp: dinner //youtu.be/HjtKebKyVp4&lt;/span& meet panelistsgt;</lispan>]<libr/>&nbsp<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><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;7pmwhite-space: pitch startup(s) to panelpre">Creating Success by Exploring YOUR Ideas</span></lip><lispan 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">As a 501© nonprofit organization, 3 Day Startup delivers some of the best experiential entrepreneurship training with educational programs that accomodate students from around &nbsp;Launch prototypethe world! 3 Day Startup boasts a distinctly high success rate, with sponsored events resulting in more successful startups than any other three day entrepreneurship event. Startup Weekend provides an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs in the Tech & STEAM fields, elect board</li>and 3 Day Startup has led to over 41 technology startups acquiring over $14 million in investments!</ulspan>

Note <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">By offering a variety of events and courses such as economic development, skill-building, accelerator/competition readiness- 3 Day Startup is tailored for high school and university students as well as those in the enterprise, intermediate and professional phases. 3 Day Startup is sponsored by Microsoft and Rackspace, where students receive free technology and server access for quick building! Although focusing on equity:tech startups, 3 day Startup is all-inclusive and encourages participation by all majors at the university level.</span>

<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color: rgb(100, 100, 100)#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-familystyle: Georgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serifnormal; font-sizevariant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align: 14pxbaseline; linewhite-heightspace: 21pxpre">If your local organizing team decides to use The 3DS Startup weekend is unlike anything you’ve experienced before! 3DS rents out work space for the legal structureentire three day weekend and caters food and drinks, than all while bringing together ~45 student participants and dozens of successful entrepreneurs and investors. On day 1, the participants select the 3DS non profit takes 0.5% of '''dilutable '''equity in companies that are formed based around best startup ideas that are presented during a brainstorming session, and then work throughout the final pitchesweekend to deliver a prototype and pitch to investors on Sunday evening. &nbsp; The purpose of this is With a focus on learning-by-doing, 3DS encourages interdisciplinary teams to protect ideas talk with real customers, and founders by establishing a clear chain act in the microcosm of legal ownership for what the ideas. &nbsp;The 3DS organizers never profit or make any money from any work you dostartup world actually feels like.</span>

<span style="font-size:small12pt; font-family:Calibri; 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-space:pre">Below is an example of a 3DS Startup weekend itinerary:</span><br/><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: georgiaCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">Friday:</span></p><br/><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44; 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">2pm: meet & greet,serifsplit up into brainstorming groups</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44; 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">7pm: dinner & pitch ideas</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 21px1.44; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:23pt; text-align: justify">The weekend is designed with two specific goals in mind<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: kickbaseline; white-space:pre">Decide on best idea(s), start new studentworking!</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44; 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:1.44; 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-run companies and build entrepreneurial capabilities in students and their university communitiesspace:pre">Customer interaction, coding, market validation, business plans, logos, etc.</span><br/p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44; 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">Sunday:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44; 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">6pm: dinner & meet panelists</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44; 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">7pm: pitch startup(s) to panel</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:23pt; 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">Launch prototype, elect board</span></p></li></ul>

= <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><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: georgiaCalibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre">To begin planning a 3DS Startup weekend at your campus,serifplease contact 3DS directly to receive guidance and instruction throughout the process. Online forms to request an event partnership or sponsorship are available at:</span>[http://3daystartup.org/contact-us/ <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><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://3daystartup.org/contact-us/</span >]</li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 21px1.656; 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">2 - 3 Day Startup Months of organization time is primarily focused on building and funding technology based student-run companies.required to plan a successful event!</span><br/p></spanli></spanul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; 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 offers a grant program- apply to subsidize the costs and receive potential funding!</span></p></li></ul><br/><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family: georgia,serifCalibri; 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 ></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 21px1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify">After the 3 days are over, 3 Day Startup hopes <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">3DS will contact you and provide a 3DS mentor to maintain help organize the entrepreneurial momentumevent.</span> through </p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; 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">Begin planning the ecosystem networks actual Startup weekend by linking academic institutions, investors, incubators and accelerators, securing a date and student entrepreneurship organizationsvenue.</span></spanp></li> <li><p dir="ltr" style= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings "line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style= The exciting aspects in contrast "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">Secure sponsorships to something like Startup Weekend is that 3 Day Startup is focused entirely on tech startupscover costs of food, t-shirts, and that they bring in actual investors on the final dayany other expenses.</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1. &nbsp656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;3 Day Startup has lead to 41 technology startups attracting over $14 million in investment. &nbsptext-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;In fact, in white-space:pre">Recruit applicants - this should be occurring throughout the Texas A&M 3 Day Startup 2012, two startups were funded on the spot on the third day of the programentire process!</span></p></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1. Additionally, 3 Day Startup is sponsored by Microsoft 656; 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">Find mentors and Rackspace, enabling students panelists to free technology and servers for quick building. Although interested in tech startups, 3 Day Startup encourages participation by all majors serve at a universitythe actual event.</span></p></li> <li><p dir="ltr" style= Steps Required to Bring Resource to Campus "line-height:1.656; 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">Host the event, and be thankful you’re so well prepared!</span></p></li></ol>

*Directly contact 3DS and they can walk you through the process= <span style="font-size:23pt; 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">Contact Information</span> =*2 <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin- 3 Months of organization time required*They offer a grant program you can apply to in order to subsidize the coststop:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11pt; 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">Madeline Vu, Program Manager &nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;madeline@3daystartup.org &nbsp;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11pt; 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">Cam Houser, CEO &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cam@3daystartup.org</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11pt; 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">Written by: [[Kayla.barbour|Kayla.barbour]]</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &&nbsp;&nbsp; [[Andrea Claudio|Andrea_Claudio]]</p>

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