NUStartUp aims to help Northwestern University students and alumni succeed in the network economy. It provides online and offline resources, connects alumni mentors with students, and lobbies the university to adopt policies supporting entrepreneurship. The organization's website lists jobs, internships, and opportunities for collaboration. NUStartUp also publishes a blog highlighting entrepreneurial news and content from the NU community. It seeks to establish an international alumni network that helps members start independent ventures.

1. NUStartUp
“Everyday we’re hustling”
Mission: Help NU students and alumni
excel in the network economy.
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2. We’re an Ecosystem
• Online and offline tools and resources that help
the Northwestern community organize itself.
• A collection of on campus individuals that help
each other organize themselves and develop
relationships with alumni.
• An international network of NU alumni who
support each other’s independent endeavors.
• A mobilized community that lobbies the
administration to adopt pro-network policies.
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3. For Students
• Entrepreneurial advice and support from a
network of dedicated alumni.
• Internship and job listings at alumni start-ups.
• Team building resources and listings for on
campus start-ups, freelancers and activists.
• Editorial content from successful indie NUers.
• Business, idea and art contests with prizes.
• A way for students to appeal for alumni support.
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4. For Alumni
• An easy way to recruit NU students to fill
internship, part-time, and full-time positions.
• Creates opportunities for mentorship.
• Connects you more deeply with fellow alumni
and current students with shared interests.
• A promotion channel for startups, content.
• Access to a mobilized online community.
• Enables you to influence campus life at NU.
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5. Hub @ NUStartup.com
• A website that helps NUers organize themselves
and participate in the growing network.
• NUStartup has:
• Profiles of organizations started by NUers.
• Job, skills, and idea listings.
• News/events from campus and the chapters.
• Highlights content created by NUers.
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6. Architecture
Home Organization Profile Listing
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7. Organization Profiles
• Student and alumni create profiles for
the organizations they operate.
• They link their listings to those
profiles.
• Profiles offer opportunities to
connect via social media and through
their chapter affiliation.
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8. Listings
• Post and search for:
• Opportunities: onetime, part-time, and full-time
positions from organizations run by NUers.
• People: students and alumni describe their
skills and the type of work they’d like to do.
• Ideas: people post ideas they’d like to develop
with others within the NU network.
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9. News, Info, & Content
• Event info and content from student
groups and alumni chapters.
• News from the forefront of the
network economy via NUHustle blog.
• Resources, opportunities, and links
for network participants.
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10. We Need Your Help
Students Alumni
• Join the group on campus • Join your local chapter
• Submit blogable content • Send us blogable content
• Post and browse for jobs, • Post and browse for jobs,
ideas, and skills ideas, and skills
• Support our initiatives • Support our initiatives
• Request to be mentored • Donate time by mentoring
by an alumni a student
• Compete in an NUStartup • Donate money to one of
Competition. our student competitions.
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11. Connect
www.nustartup.com
http://twitter.com/ Search Groups:
nustartup NU Startup
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12. WARNING
• The following are ideas from the
creator of this presentation.
• This is not doctrine, only suggestions.
• Students will determine the initiatives
NUStartup undertakes.
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13. Insight
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14. What is the Network
Economy?
• Powered by network/digital technology.
• Evolution of the industrial economic paradigm.
• The economy described in ‘The World is Flat,’
‘The Long Tail’, ‘The Wisdom of Crowds’, etc.
• Info distribution is factor of time, not money.
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15. The Transition
Industrial Network
to
• Hierarchical • Self Organized
• Profit Driven • Reputation Driven
• Career Based • Project Based
• Linear • Cyclical
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16. Network Participants
Find Work in New Ways
Social Network Marketplace
Opportunities are offered Opportunities are posted in
to friends and followers. skills specific marketplaces.
Networking
Know your network! Develop your craft!
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17. Network Participants
Do Work in New Ways
Local Virtual Organized
Freelancer Core Team
Network Network Individual
Size Small Medium Medium Large Unlimited
Short-
Medium-
Duration Short Term medium Long term Long term
long term
term
Build, Build and Manage
Example: Design a Build a
maintain a maintain website
Website logo website
website lots of sites content
Create a Create a Destination
Example: Write an Create a
video video ad sales
Video article video
program destination manager
Provide Complete a Produce a Expand the Maintain
Example:
strategic consulting multimedia scope of relationships
Consulting
advice project report the project with clients
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18. Network Participants
Utilize New Tools
Networking Collaboration Communication
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19. Network Participants
Requires New Skills
• Network participants need to:
• Utilize, build, and grow their network.
• Assemble, collaborate, and manage teams.
• Communicate through new media.
• Develop expertise in specific niches/crafts.
• Manage finances, insurance, taxes, legal, etc.
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20. Education Must Adapt
• Universities must establish standards
for network participation and teach
students practical skills.
• Alumni must provide mentorship and
network exposure to students.
• Students must collaborate with alumni
and each other to learn experientially.
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21. Vision
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22. NUStartup Ecosystem
Student leaders, chapter heads,
administration, and NUStartup
directors provide guidance and
Chapters in various Directors
organize support for the ecosystem.
cities provide support
to alumni and NUStartup
opportunities to
students. Boards
Board Boards
Collaborates with
Chapters Boards
NU the ecosystem to
adapt the NU
Outreach Advocate
community to the
Secretary
Group Office of Student network economy.
Involvement
NUHustle Editor
Asset Cartographer
Alumni Contributors
NUHustle
NUStartup publication
highlighting important
Association Contribute content,
time, and money to the
news, events, and ecosystem in exchange
useful resources for for access to a highly
network participants. organized network.
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23. NUStartup Group
• Student group is the core.
• Organize student body to interact with alumni.
• Produce tutorials and community projects.
• Arrange speakers and networking events.
• Organize support for NUStartup Initiatives.
• Reach out to Evanston organizations, gov’t.
• Maintain the NUStartup.com website.
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24. NUStartup Board
• Composed of representatives from
the student group, NU admin/profs,
chapter members, and other alumni.
• Creates, maintains, and enforces the
NUStartup Constitution.
• Coordinates NUStartup fundraising activities.
• Works with NU admin to implement initiatives.
• Provides support to website and publication.
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25. NUStartup Chapters
• Vehicle for alumni participation.
• Arrange speakers and networking events.
• Incubate alumni ideas and businesses.
• Organize alumni interaction with students.
• Produce tutorials and community projects.
• Supply content to NUStartup and NUHustle.
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26. NU Administration
• Collaboration between professors,
administration, and NUStartup is
essential.
• Explains it’s objectives to NUStartup.
• Collaborates with NUStartup on initiatives that
help the university adapt to the network
economy.
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27. NUHustle Publication
• Publication syndicates and amplifies
alumni and student content.
• Publishes news/info relevant to local
businesses, entrepreneurship, and the
emerging network economy.
• Highlights global news/trends.
• Profiles local and alumni enterprises.
• Experiments with ‘citizen-journalism.’
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28. Results
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29. Our Initiatives Help NU
Adapt to the Network.
• Train students in relevant life skills.
• Empower students to organize themselves.
• Build relationships between alumni and students.
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30. Establish Standards
• Advocate the creation of practical
courses that teach students network
economy standards.
• Web app power user: Google, Facebook, etc.
• Media basics: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash.
• Collaboration: Basecamp, Google Docs.
• Publish: Wordpress, Constant Contact
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31. Collaborative Work
• Individuals absorb and display their
knowledge through collaborative
projects. Network classes should:
• Have a clear objective for each individual and
the class. Ex. create/improve wiki entries.
• Work with other classes in other disciplines on
expansive projects. Ex. history and film class
work together to produce a documentary.
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32. Free Northwestern
• Students should experientially learn
about civic engagement by legislating
and administering their own policies.
• Student government needs to be given real
power to affect the university.
• Authoritarian disciplinary procedures are
ineffective, dangerous, and disenfranchise
students. University governance should
conform to the US Constitution’s standards.
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33. Student Enterprise
• NU’s local area is the best place for
students to learn about business
organization, and entrepreneurship.
Students should:
• Run campus businesses.
• Assist businesses and non-profits in Evanston.
• Independently develop their ideas with the
goal of leaving NU self-employed.
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34. Alumni Integration
• Build mentor/apprentice relationships
between alumni and students.
• Students work with alumni in their field of
interest.
• Alumni provide students with experiential
learning opportunities and network access.
• All relationships are voluntary, informal, and
completely non-coercive.
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