Carma Austin

3 Day Startup (“3DS”) teaches entrepreneurial skills to university students in an extreme hands-on environment. This proven program provides students the tools they need to start successful companies. Over 12,000 3DS alumni from 400+ programs across 6 continents–at over 150 schools including Harvard, MIT, WHU (Germany), Technion (Israel), and the University of Texas–have launched more than 90 companies that have collectively raised $130 million in investor capital. Over 38 companies emerging from 3DS have been accepted to prestigious accelerators such as Y Combinator, TechStars, and Capital Factory. While early programs focused strictly on technology- and web-enabled startups, demand has led the team to expand the program to function across broader entrepreneurial endeavors. Schools have hosted 3DS programs focused on themes such as social innovation, energy, culinary, hardware, and more. Foregoing a grant-supported model, the founders developed an earned-revenues strategy—3DS charges universities, governments, and corporations to deliver programs—which allowed the organization to grow in a scalable and sustainable way while preserving mission autonomy. Running 3DS as a successful business operation keeps entrepreneurship in the organizational DNA and allows the organization to remain faithful to the philosophy of learning-by-doing.

The National Cybersecurity Society provides cybersecurity education, awareness and advocacy for small businesses. Our vision is a strong and prosperous small business community, with the ability to conduct business safely and securely online. We are a society of IT security companies and professionals who are committed to keeping our small business partners stay safe. As a nonprofit, we donate our time and resources to keeping the American dream of owning a small business alive. We embody the entrepreneurial spirit of innovators, small business owners, and idea makers! Our goal is to empower and enable small business owners to obtain cybersecurity services, assist them in understanding their cyber risk and educating them on the type of protection they need.

We are an independent, non-profit member organization providing transparency and expert guidance on Cyber Risk through our research and testing programs. CyberRatings tests products in the IT space (endpoint, network and cloud), and will be testing IoT and OT products in the future.

3 Day Startup (“3DS”) teaches entrepreneurial skills to university students in an extreme hands-on environment. This proven program provides students the tools they need to start successful companies. Over 12,000 3DS alumni from 400+ programs across 6 continents–at over 150 schools including Harvard, MIT, WHU (Germany), Technion (Israel), and the University of Texas–have launched more than 90 companies that have collectively raised $130 million in investor capital. Over 38 companies emerging from 3DS have been accepted to prestigious accelerators such as Y Combinator, TechStars, and Capital Factory. While early programs focused strictly on technology- and web-enabled startups, demand has led the team to expand the program to function across broader entrepreneurial endeavors. Schools have hosted 3DS programs focused on themes such as social innovation, energy, culinary, hardware, and more. Foregoing a grant-supported model, the founders developed an earned-revenues strategy—3DS charges universities, governments, and corporations to deliver programs—which allowed the organization to grow in a scalable and sustainable way while preserving mission autonomy. Running 3DS as a successful business operation keeps entrepreneurship in the organizational DNA and allows the organization to remain faithful to the philosophy of learning-by-doing.

The National Cybersecurity Society provides cybersecurity education, awareness and advocacy for small businesses. Our vision is a strong and prosperous small business community, with the ability to conduct business safely and securely online. We are a society of IT security companies and professionals who are committed to keeping our small business partners stay safe. As a nonprofit, we donate our time and resources to keeping the American dream of owning a small business alive. We embody the entrepreneurial spirit of innovators, small business owners, and idea makers! Our goal is to empower and enable small business owners to obtain cybersecurity services, assist them in understanding their cyber risk and educating them on the type of protection they need.