YD Ventures #Startupathoncubator Wrap-up YD Ventures was recently privileged to collaborate with a select group of San Francisco entrepreneurs and fo

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YD Ventures #Startupathoncubator Wrap-up

YD Ventures was recently privileged to collaborate with a select group of San Francisco entrepreneurs and founders at the very first #Startupathoncubator. Once adequately informed about YD’s investing approach and innovation philosophy via pitches from YDV portfolio company founders, break-out groups hacked together start-ups to service the biggest challenge facing humankind: The End of The World.

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The #Startupathoncubator participants, post break-out

Two Game-Changing Apocalypse Apps Are Born!

Following furious and timed brainstorming, concept clarification, and prototyping sessions, the two teams presented the following revolutionary start-up concepts to make the end of the world a better place:

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Final Emotional Cleanse Application

An application toolset to help users with their emotional readiness for oblivion. Features include a 3-D printed final portrait service, life regret cloud storage uploading, a comfy chair geo-locator, a soul cleansing Luffa, and an Accepto-Meter feeding a real-time, crowd-sourced emotional marketplace.

ENDIFY

End of Life Experience Selector Application

This app empowers users to choose the method of their own extinction via a personality based Russian roulette wheel. Features included: Randomized hand grenade and death by STD laced orgy. Business model includes in-app premium up-sells to action sport death vacation packages, helicopter & missile combo kit, and more.

#Startupathoncubator Summary:

Altogether an amazing evening, with two groundbreaking product launches! YD Ventures was thrilled to award both break-out teams with conditional seed term-sheets for further concept work. After that, everyone present ate cookies.

Other YDI News

SEMINAR GRADUATE SUCCESS STORY!

YD Innovation Seminar veteran, George Anders, just published his first fiction (well, we think it's fiction) book, The Benjamins. The e-tome was drafted in a month, an obvious testament to the aplication of IDACSU and PO-PO. Congrats George, we already look forward to Benjamins 2!

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COMING SOON!

YD Ventures' Steve Musselman has been collaborating with the corporate media producing titans at LightShow Creative to concept a promotional video innovation tone poem to capture mind-share from potential founders in the venture backed, disruption marketplace. Expect the release soon.

IN THE NEWS!

YD Ventures portfolio company Tux.ly's CEO Dirk O'Doon (Tux.ly - a geofenced tuxedo crowd-sharing mobile application for Nokia phones) was recently awarded the Great Acorn Innovator Award from the Northern Lakes Commerce Association.

In Conclusion...

Wow, we have to admit this was a solid newsletter. so, we're just going to call it early and head over to BinOnions for some Dairy-Shooters and happy hour clam skewers.

Before we head out, major props to Rafe Carraway, Dirk O'Doon and Dan St. Bernard for their invaluable contributions to the S.F. #startupathoncubator. Also props to IT wizard Larry Kilgrew for his essential help locating the USB dongle so we could unlock the newsletter marketing workstation this afternoon.

Best Wishes,
The YD Industries Team

PS - As always, we invite your thoughts and suggestions, so feel free to drop us a line anytime!

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