Students at Startup Institute go through one of the following four track: Web Development, Technical Marketing, Product & Design, or Sales & Business Development.
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Each track offers experiential learning opportunities unique to that discipline, but the "Sales Challenge" of the Sales & Business Development track is often a classwide favorite. After reading this post from Nikhil Hathiramani, student in this Summer's Boston class, I think you'll understand why.
At noon on Friday June 28th the Sales and Business Development students were presented with a challenge: to open and close as many deals as we could resulting in a slew of freebies for all students and staff at Startup Institute. The rules were simple, open as many deals by 5pm and close them within the week. If we closed the deals by the end of the afternoon that was just a bonus, but the scope of what we could acquire was limited only by our imagination. Popular items in the past included free food, free merchandise and even a boat cruise around the Boston harbor for all 70 students and staff!
In case you missed it in the Chicago Tribune, Tech Cocktail, and Technori, we're building Startup Institute Chicago! Classes start this fall, and applications are open.
With the support of Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel,
"The startup economy is one of the driving forces in Chicago's economic growth, and it's exciting to see new attention and interest in building out this important sector. I look forward to Startup Institute's arrival in Chicago and look forward to the startup community in Chicago becoming more and more vibrant, creating new jobs and economic opportunity for our residents."
TechStars Chicago Managing Director, Troy Henikoff,
"What the team at Startup Institute is doing fits incredibly well into the Chicago community at large. They pull together a ton of moving pieces to make it easy for people who want to work for a startup, and solve a huge recruiting challenge for those companies as well."
... and amazing Chicago startups like TrunkClub, Hailo, BigMarker, BayRu, GiveForward, Murfie, Dashfire, Loud Interactive, Smarteys and more... we couldn't be more excited to join this already bustling startup community.
