Extreme Venture Partners presented another round of Extreme University in the summer of 2010. At “ExtremeU” 3 companies got a chance to bring their great idea to life, and draw upon the technology and business expertise of the EVP team. Along with new experts, experts from 2009 year’s ExtremeU returned to speak and mentor the ExtremeU “class of 2010″.

How: Each company:

• * Received $5,000(US) + $5,000 (US) per founder in exchange for a 10% ownership stake in their company
• * Moved their team to our shared ExtremeU office space at Yonge & King (downtown Toronto)
• * Had weekly mentoring sessions by industry experts in technology, funding, legal, public relations, marketing and human resources
• * Met a who’s who of experts at our monthly socials and had an opportunity to practice their pitch and demo their in-progress prototype
• * Had access to local shared resources to accelerate product development

When: The program ran for 12 weeks starting July 5th, 2010.

Weekly Mentorship

Albert Lai	Kontagent	Startup Lifecycle
Ali Asaria	Well.ca	How to get funding
Colin Ground	Cassels Brock & Blackwell	Setting up a VC friendly structure
Dan Debow	Rypple	Sales & Marketing
Chamath Palihapitiya	Facebook	Startup lessons and user growth
Mike McDerment	Freshbooks	Product Management
Rick Segal	Fixmo	Startup mistakes to avoid
Dan Martell	Flowtown	The gratification model and game mechanics
Austin Hill	Akoha	Entrepreneurs can change the world
Derek Szeto	Red Flag Deals	Startup evolution of Red Flag Deals
Tomi Poutanen	Yahoo Answers	Growing the early user base and fostering the community
Noah Godfrey	Gigpark	Viral growth strategies and lessons learnt
Anand Agarawala	Bumptop	The art of the hustle
Mark Organ	Influitive	Product market fit

ExtremeU 2010 Companies

	PopHire is a social recruiting application that helps companies recruit more high quality candidates through referrals. Leveraging the LinkedIn API, we simplify the referral act by ranking an individual’s contacts relative to job postings, while also providing a platform enabling companies to create trackable and sharable referral rewards.
	Getdateidea’s offers hyper-local date ideas and time-expired deals at the neighborhood level.
	Sunrank.com lets people rank everything under the sun. Our ranked lists of popular opinion act as quality filters that help users make quicker, more informed decisions.

Extreme University is led by Farhan Thawar, Dean of ExtremeU. Farhan has over 13 years experience in the technology sector. He is currently the VP of Engineering at Xtreme Labs.