03/30/2019
Hello Everybody,
We wanted to take a second to thank you for supporting us throughout this journey, and to anyone who’s new, we’d like to let you know who we are. U•START is a runway for gaining real-world experience through collaboration. Beyond this “one-liner” we tout at events, U•START is much more: a family. We are a family that came together over two years ago to create a tool we wholeheartedly believed would make an impact in the lives of students by giving them a leg-up before entering the “real world.” Our goal from the start has been to give students’ ideas a chance to thrive in a world where ideas often do not stand a fighting chance.
We want to form supportive, proactive communities to foster all the talent and progress that would not otherwise be recognized, an issue we know all too well. In our time promoting U•START, we’ve met many gatekeepers that were afraid of the change we’ve been striving for. They were out of touch and weary of the unknown, fearful we were trying to usurp their influence. At times this misconception has hindered our growth; however, we always overcome these roadblocks with the supportive network we have cultivated and an unwavering faith in our mission to help students.
One of the foundations of our platform is matching students with collaborators, through Graph Databases, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence . We would be able to accomplish more in this area with funding, to hire more engineers and researchers to aid us in our continuous efforts to improve U•START. This will yield an increasingly powerful network of college communities to bring ambitious ideas to life and lead us into the future of creation and ingenuity.
Thank you all once again!
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