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San Francisco Start-Up ELP for Students San Francisco Start-up Experiential Learning Program Creative Commons Author:Creative Bogdan Oporowski program at a glance: Discover the roots of Culture Length of program: 2 weeks Day Number of participants: 25 students from around the world entrepreneurship on an Credit points: can potentially be earned by contacting a professor at your home university morning Cost per student: $3.900 (general program) + optional room upgrade experiential learning journey to Free + optional excursions and cultural activities noon Lunch Pitching Time + airfare San Francisco and the infamous competition afternoon Departure Free accommodation, food & beverage "Start-up Consulting Challenge“ Time 1 urban 3 star hostel Silicon Valley! SFO 8 hands-on workshops Golden Review Free Airport daily breakfast evening 4 workshop locations Circle session Time 1 welcome dinner 6 unique team experiences Free Free 1 farewell dinner 1 pitching competition Free Time Time Time team, organization & safety WeekArrival Sundayone Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Departure 2 program coordinators and trainers visits & lectures 4 Fortune 500 company visits 2 local guides Mindset morning 24/7 local emergency contacts 3 company visits Week two 3-5 start-up visits Arrival BMC transportation noon SFO Lunch 1 Venture Capital visit/lecture Part 1 1 private VIP bus 1 incubator & innovation center Airport Design Thinking BMC 1 academic seminar afternoon Sight- you decide: cultural highlights Part 1 and 2 Part 2 seeing Free Culture sightseeing walking tour tour Team Option Free Day evening Time cable car museum options Building Time optional: upgrade to a double room a Ghirardelli chocolate & ice-cream Option optional: 1-day excursion to Napa and Sonoma Valley Free Free registration optional: Alcatraz Night Tour Time Time diversity optional: Secret Food Tour @ participants may attend from the following optional: Ferry Building and Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Food Tour www.peopleandfriends.org countries: Australia, Brazil, USA, Argentina, optional: San Francisco Love Night Tour New Zealand, India, Malaysia, Colombia, Peru, optional: Classic Mission Mural Walk Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, South Africa optional: Private Sausalito Waterfront Treasure Hunt featured partners program overview: the “Social Start-up Challenge“ projects explained: Order of information: Logo, Company, Industry, Revenue in US$/Background, Fun fact On the second day of the program, we divide you into six different Embark on an experiential learning journey in San Francisco, an iconic teams. You and your team then receive a unique start-up challenge you Apple / technology company / $229.2 B watsi / healthcare and diverse metropolis which is also home to the worldʼs leading tech have to solve over the course of the program. In 8 highly interactive If Apple was a country, it would be the This crowdfunding platform enables donors start-ups – Silicon Valley. Besides going on exclusive visits at Fortune to fund patients in developing countries. workshops with Andreas and Janina, you and your team get to work on 27th largest country. 500 companies as well as start-ups, you attend an academic seminar watsi accepts Bitcoin as a form of payment to given by a professor at the University of California Berkeley, meet with your "Start-up Consulting Challenge" projects and will not only learn Tesla / car & energy storage / $ 11.8 B support the medical care. Silicon Valley professionals and entrepreneurs and have plenty of how to generate potential solutions for the challenge at hand. Tesla has never turned an annual profit – opportunities to discover the cityʼs most fascinating historical and predictions say this wonʼt change until 2020. kiva / microfinance cultural highlights. Dining at one of the numerous trendy restaurants in Your journey as young entrepreneurs for the 2 weeks will also teach you It allows people to lend money via the internet "the City" (as San Francisco inhabitants call their city) shall also not be how you can turn any business idea you have in the future into actual Facebook / social networking service / $41 B to low-income entrepreneurs and students. missed when you and your fellow program participants gather for the products or services. Some of the state-of-the-art tools and methods you You can change your language on kiva has a repayment rate of 97%. special Welcome and Farewell dinners. get exposed to include: Design Thinking, Visual Thinking and The Business Facebook to ʻPirateʼ. Model Canvas. On the last day of the program, you and your team 500 Startups / start-up accelerator Three kick-ass reasons why you should sign up: present your business idea to a jury in form of a pitch* and the winner Google / internet-related services / $109.7 B It is an early stage venture fund and seed you are part of an international group of students (coming from takes home a fantastic prize. Since 2010, Google has been acquiring an a accelerator for start-ups. 500 Startups is just a countries, such as Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Brazil, verage of one company every week. name – they already invested in more than Argentina and South Africa) so youʼll definitely improve your 1 *a pitch is a short and concise presentation, in which you try to convince your audience of your idea 2000 companies. intercultural communication skills AirBnB / hospitality / $2.6 B start-ups you visit and talk to managers from world famous companies, e.g. 400 guests check into AirBnB listings BootUp Ventures / asset management 2 Google, Apple, Facebook Hostel: every two minutes. Focuses on top global start-ups to deliver a global entrepreneurial ecosystem. you decide on the cultural activities you wish to participate in – & Available room types: IDEO / design company / $20 M So far, BootUp has raised more than $400 M. whether this is a tour of the Alcatraz prison, a Secret Food Tour in > 4-bed female or male dormitory 3 the Mission District or a day-trip to Napa and Sonoma Valley, just Before IDEO, founder David Kelleyʼs > optional: upgrade to a former firm designed Appleʼs first mouse. Vizalytics / cloud-based technology to mention a few double room ($500) Creates location-specific business intelligence On top of that, the guiding theme throughout these exciting two weeks SAP / software / $23.5 B from open and private data. Hurricane Sandy in 2012 served as inspiration will be your "Start-up Consulting Challenge" projects (highlighted in This giant software company was formed pink). by five IBM engineers in 1972. for the Vizalytics founder. Deutsche Telekom / telecommunications GUIDEKICK / 3D technology Skills you’ll acquire technology / $73.1 B Creates interactive 3D maps for buildings, or Deutsche Telekom is represented in more tours for cities like in San Francisco. than 50 countries with 216,000 employees. With their app, you can relive the 14 attempted > knowledge about foreign business structures and cultures escapes in Alcatraz. > entrepreneurial thinking and acting Pillsbury Law / law company / $589 M HI San Francisco companies This law firm regularly sponsors the > global networking skills City Center Hostel “StartUP Pitchfest San Francisco” for mediaX / education SF start-ups. It connects Stanford researchers with > problem-solving skills 685 Ellis Street, Tenderloin, companies to bring new technologies to the > team building skills San Francisco, CA 94109 market. mediaXʼs goal is to let IT improve the > presentation skills human experience of tomorrow. > cultural adaptability #orientation general program costs $3.900 We want you to be prepared for the San Francisco Start-up Experiential Learning Program. We academic components: will therefore let you access a virtual orientation video in which we address the most important 4 Fortune 500 company visits topics you should keep in mind before traveling. Some of these include: visa information, travel 3 company visits insurance, safety tips, information about the local currency and common ways of payment as 3-5 start-up visits well as packing suggestions. In addition to the orientation video, we'll send you a ʻSan Francisco 1 Venture Capital visit/lecture cable car museum Welcome Info Packageʼ that serves as a more elaborate information package providing further 1 incubator & innovation center Ghirardelli chocolate & ice-cream At the San Francisco Cable Car Museum, you get details on the topics mentioned as well as additional ones (e.g. different options of how to get to 1 academic seminar In the heart of San Francisco and Fisherman's Wharf lies Ghirardelli Square, the chance to listen to the roar of the wheels and the hostel from San Francisco International Airport (SFO)). Moreover, weʼll send you relevant 8 hands-on workshops home to some of the best chocolate made in the United States. Let us take watch engines in action as they pull the cars up links to helpful websites and a list of useful apps you can download while in San Francisco (e.g. 4 workshop locations you to Ghirardelli Chocolate (the whole reason there is a square!) and 6 unique team experiences the steep streets. You will also discover their history, the Moovit App – a personal trip planner for the San Francisco public transport system). discover the many ways you can enjoy 1 pitching competition photos and get a anything made of chocolate: ice-cream chance to step inside culture: sundaes, hot cocoa, baked goods, for a closer look. Once Our Global Education Project 1 sightseeing walking tour chocolate snacks or gift baskets. Since we have visited the 1 cable car museum itʼs a popular place for visitors you can With the People & Friends Global Education Project you can do something good! You can help museum, we all hop 1 Ghirardelli chocolate & ice-cream do some people watching while you disadvantaged young adults from countries, such as Uganda, Brazil and India, to participate in aboard a cable car meals: enjoy your chocolate delight. one of our Start-up Experiential Learning Programs free of cost.
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