Startup Science vs townhall app

Giving founders an unfair advantage

To help startups design their success, 1 founder at a time.

Why? Because wealth inequality is directly tied to entrepreneurship. 95% of people who get out of check-to-check living do so by selling a business.

It started with researching why, how, and when startups fail. We did 1,200 interviews and spent months reading the research to understand the 90% failure rate. We learned that founders keep making the same mistakes and these mistakes can be avoided. And the problems that lead to these mistakes center around people, knowledge, and financial resources.

Accelerators are designed to help startups solve these problems. But only 2% of startups who apply, are accepted into accelerators. 60% of rejected founders “failed to complete the application due to lack of knowledge.” And 70% of those startups who are accepted, came through a referral. So if you don’t know the language or are not connected into the ecosystem already your chances are slim.

Location: Santa Cruz, United States

Townhall app is a civic engagement tool designed to distribute democracy and engage citizens in decisions that affect them.

Townhall app is an online survey tool for collecting insights, growing engagement and strengthening community ties. If you want to increase the number of people responding to your survey, you need to make it faster and easier, so we’ve redesigned the way you ask questions and get responses from your target audience. High social media share rates of townhall questions save on the cost of promotion, as word spreads through networks. We help government and community organisations to save money and time in collecting feedback from the people they serve.