3 Day Startup
3 Day Startup is a international entrepreneurship program created in 2008 at the University of Texas with the mission to "kickstart new student-run companies and build entrepreneurial capabilities in students and their university communities."[1] The organization collaborates with universities to host intensive, weekend-long workshops designed for teams to research a promising concept, conduct target audience interviews, and complete at least a working prototype. Since 2008, it has expanded to 123 schools in 26 countries. Alumni of the program have raised more than $70 million in capital.[2]
Team
- Bart Bohn, Founding Mentor
- Cam Houser, CEO
- Joel Hestness, COO
- Ruchit Shah, CSO
- Maia Donohue, Program Manager
- Carlos Estrada, Program Manager
- Alexis Taylor, Program Manager
- Alex Maingot, Program Manager
- Jackson Dyre-Borowicz, Program Manager; Enterprise
- Ben Cantey, Program Manager; Enterprise
- Thomas Finsterbusch, Original Founder
- Efraim Pettersson, SE Asia Program Lead
3 Day Startup Houston
Rice University and the University of Houston co-host the Houston 3DS program at TMCx, the Texas Medical Center accelerator. In 2015, Rice Launch and the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the Univeristy of Houston reached out to their respective campus constituents, which culminated in 40 budding entrepreneurs teaming up to construct their product idea. Hesam Panahi, Ph.D. of the University of Houston and the Rice Entrepreneurship Initiative has served as the program's facilitator.
The Houston 3DS program constrains entrepreneurial ventures to be software-related; the product created after the workshop must be some sort of application or hardware incorporating innovative software.
