Profound experience made affordable.
StartupBus provides a unique, cohesive, and well-rounded Work Hard Play Hard experience for a low ticket price, compared to boot camps and travel packages with similar content.
| Product Boot Camps | Hackathons | Small Conferences |  |
Greyhound Bus | Package Tours | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WORK | WORK + PLAY | PLAY | ||||
| Price | $50 - 120 | $0 - 50 | $500 - 750 | $399 | $200 - 300 | $500 - 1000 |
| Participants | Non-vetted, low commitment, and mostly composed of business types limited to a local area | Non-vetted, low commitment, and mostly college students with no founding experience | Non-vetted folks with similar backgrounds to yours here for networking mostly | Vetted, highly committed, adventurous, and diverse, with a great mix of engineering, design, and business talents from all over the continent | Random travellers | Tourists |
| Boot Camp Format | 2 days of curriculum focused on creating pitches from any business ideas | 1 to 2 days with no curriculum but a few workshops centered around a technology topic | 2 to 3 days of workshops and seminars around a technology topic | 5 days of high intensity curriculum focus on pitching and building products from ideation to iteration to traction, with pre-launch seminars for themed buses | 20 hours of patience amongst strangers | 5 days of patience amongst Boomer tourists |
| Results | Conceptual products and pitch deck | Technically great but not marketable hacks | Workshops and small exercises | Working products and feasible business launched to the public | Back pain | Sun tan |
| Competition | Validate your pitches to local experts amongst ~40 participants | Compete against 100+ students on a college scale | - | Compete against 100+ Buspreneurs on a global stage pitching to esteemed judges | Compete against how much you can lean your chair back | - |
| Travel Experience | One small local co-working space | Overnight at the college gym | Hotel conference rooms | The thrill of hacking and seeing cool and inspiring places, as well as visiting tech communities across the continent | A confined bus seat | Lots of tourists spots, and lots of tourist traps |
| Reach | Limited social media | - | - | Finals live-streamed to the world, with coverage in media | - | - |