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“Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.” - Tony Hsieh, Zappos

Dunno why anyone would pay when material like that on http://venture-lab.org is free. Just looks like a rather ill-conceived attempt to cash in on the startup bubble "pay us $100 and we'll give you something you could google in 5 minutes".

Going to Venture-Lab doesn't tell me anything. I visit the site and there is no indication about what it is, what value it provides or anything like that.Why would anyone go there, and how would anyone know that they should go there?

I don't think 5 minutes on google can solve the problem that Startup Plays is trying to solve, if it could, everyone would be a Startup Superstar.

I can understand your skepticism, but if you knew Scott Annan or any of the team at Startup Plays, I have a very hard time believing your impression that this Startup Plays is an "ill-concieved attempt to cash in on the startup bubble".

True, venture labs doesn't make the material clear until you sign up. The material is from a Stanford uni course, you can find it going through this blog http://eesley.blogspot.co.uk/. With startupplays, you can't sample anything until you pay first.

Virtual/online incubators like this are popping up seemingly weekly. Making startups pay at the point of entry will just move them to services that don't, cash tends to be one of the biggest problems for the target market.

Revenue from plays directly supports the ecosystem. Anyone can submit a comprehensive how-to for review and the revenue generated from plays is split three pronged. http://www.startupplays.com/blog/supporting-the-startup-ecos...

DavidJGraph,

Totally respect your comment and I thought the same way before, honestly. One day I tried StartupPlays just because I wanted to know a bit more about some subjects.

What I ended up getting was a partner for a project, great feedback from a Play creator and a lot of positive feedback from the community.

Yes, I know I might get this from many other places but why searching if I have it in one place? StartupPlays has been a great help and would really recommend it not only to you but to anyone else.

Great company - We've used one of the PR Plays, can't remember which one :/

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