Santa Clara – February 04, 2016 –StartupWind ™, the creator of world’s first Entrepreneur’s Social Network ™, today announced that it is making the network publicly available to students and alumni of premier schools in the United States. StartupWind recently completed a beta program with participation of students and alumni from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, University of California Berkeley, University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Virginia, Indian Institute of Technology and other premier schools.

"We are pleased to deliver world’s first specialized social network for entrepreneurs, investors and people who want to be part of startups. StartupWind’s mission is to give people power to bring their ideas to life and help them realize their entrepreneurial dreams by connecting them with like-minded peers, successful alumni, mentors, and their capital." said Naren Patil, Co-founder of StartupWind.

StartupWind enables entrepreneurs in building the eco-systems that helps them in:

• transforming their raw ideas into more refined and funding-ready ideas by delivering a simple, step-by-step, Social Ideation™ framework.
• getting quicker customer validation and community feedback to validate ideas, pain points and size of the potential market.
• building their team by finding co-founders and team members through warm alumni connections who are interested in startups.
• finding mentors and advisors who can guide them through early stages of the evolution of the startup.

"StartupWind is a must-have resource for any entrepreneur looking to get feedback on his or her business. As an MBA student, I think of StartupWind as a digital ecosystem of like-minded individuals – each of whom is capable of providing immediate feedback on my business idea. It’s an amazing way to connect with fellow entrepreneurs and the user interface is simple, social, and intuitive. I would highly recommend Startup Wind to anyone interested in developing their network, their start up idea or simply connecting with a community of highly collaborative and entrepreneurial people" said Kevin Hareza who participated in the StartupWind beta program.

StartupWind launched a restricted beta program for premier US schools in November and the interest in the solution quickly grew into a budding network comprising thousands of interactions, over 500 initial users and dozens of ideas.

Years of working with entrepreneurial students have taught me how important it is to have a well-designed platform where students can receive frequent and frank mentoring and feedback from multiple voices of experience." said Professor Chris Riesbeck, Faculty at Farley Center of Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University.

StartupWind is a free application available for immediate access to students and alumni from premier schools at:

About StartupWind:

StartUpWind ™ is the first ever Entrepreneur’s Social Network™ of students and alumni from premier schools. It helps entrepreneurs to realize their dreams and to bring their raw ideas to life by connecting them with like-minded peers, successful alumni, mentors, and their capital. It enables young entrepreneurs with a guided Social Ideation ™ framework that helps them create ideas, get market validation, brainstorm solutions, rapidly create prototypes and collaboratively work with their network to transform raw ideas into more refined, funding-ready ideas. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, StartupWind unveils a completely new way to connect, ideate and launch startups. Please visit www.startupwind.com for more information and join the entrepreneur’s social network.

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