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Entrepreneurship Groups | Professional Profiles | Startup Pages | Control Panel | Events | Newsletters | Competition Dashboard | Competition Submissions | Competition Results | Judging Submissions | Explore Startups | Explore People | Membership Widget | Event Widget | Startup Indices | Case Studies
Entrepreneurship Groups
A central place to manage your membership, events, competitions, and communications. Everything connects, so wave goodbye to the days of managing 10 different lists and spreadsheets! To get your group running on YouNoodle...
- Embed a video about your group using YouTube or Vimeo.
- Create and send newsletters. They get archived online.
- Discussion board.
Professional profiles
Create a page to share your professional and intellectual life.
- Mini bio and a picture.
- Just upload a resume / CV and it gets imported to create a detailed profile in one step.
- Fields are ideal for students and people working in startup communities.
Startup pages
Create a startup page to help attract team members, advisors, investors, and early customers.
- Key information.
- YouNoodle Score.
- News and web activity about the startup is automatically aggregated.
- 'Follow' the startups you want to support, and see others following you.
Control Panel
Control everything going on in your group from one dashboard. No technical skills required. Everything you want to do is just a click away.
- Review and approve membership applications to your community. You can export the latest database anytime.
- Create and manage events.
- Create and send customized Newsletters.
- View statistics on your group. How many connections are you facilitating? How many startups in your group? The answers your sponsors want to hear, all automatically tracked and presented as you use YouNoodle.
Events
Professional tools to manage your events.
- Track RSVPs.
- Comment board for the attendees.
Newsletters
Create and send professional HTML newsletters to your group.
- Table of contents is automatically generated.
- Formatting between sections makes content easy-to-read.
- HTML formatting. Text-only appears if the reader has turned off HTML.
Competition Dashboard
Tools designed by people that have started and run business plan competitions before.
- Easy steps to set up and customize your competition.
- Move between rounds as the competition progresses.
Competition Submissions
A central place to accept and organize your submissions. Follow all the entrants long after the competition is over!
- Have your participants enter specific info before they submit.
- Upload your own terms and/or guidelines
When participants click next, they can upload their plan and you can later choose which judges to share it with.
Competition Results
View the scores and feedback submitted by judges all on one page.
For privacy, the names of the submissions have been blurred.
Judging Submissions
Judges log in to see a customized panel showing only the teams they need to judge. Click to download the plans.
Explore startups
Explore all the startups in your group. Find the hidden gems you didn't even know about.
- Quick link to Follow the startup if you find it interesting.
- Click 'Next' to view another summary.
Explore people
Warning: this feature may be addictive. :)
Membership widget
Present a selection of your members in your own website. Loads a different selection each time.
- This is a flash widget so it's as easy as embedding a YouTube video. You tell us the desired dimensions and we give you the code to copy and paste.
- Photos link to profiles.
Event widgetThis neat little widget lets you present your next 3 events on your website automatically.
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Startup indicesTop YouNoodle startups are profiled with our partners, which means extra visibility! See an example YouNoodle startup story from The Telegraph here.
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Case studies
BASESStanford's largest entrepreneur club.
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Imperial EntrepreneursThe student entrepreneur club at Imperial College London.
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E-Challenge 2009The main business plan competition at Stanford. Using YouNoodle this year they received a record number of submissions.
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Queen Rania Center for EntrepreneurshipThe main entrepreneurship center in Jordan, running a large business plan competition and several other activities.
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