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👋 Happy Thursday! In this week’s edition of Disco weekly, we’re featuring our interview with Nafis Ahmed, Entrepreneurship Manager at YSpace, about the value their incubator creates for budding startup founders in several key industries. The startups they primarily work with are technology ventures, food & beverage companies, as well as diversity-focused streams for women-led ventures and Black entrepreneur ventures. Read the full article here!

How YSpace is Democratizing Entrepreneurship
at a Global Scale

YSpace is a university-backed incubator/accelerator operated under York University. They shared their admirable mission with us; “We’re changing the world by being the platform that empowers people to change the world.”

We also learned why YSpace chose Disco to build and scale their learning community. Nafis shares with us how Disco is helping them democratize entrepreneurship and create generational wealth in underrepresented communities.

"We had all of these programs, and we needed a centralized way to engage. Different managers were doing different hacks to centralize the content and, ultimately, we tested Disco out with one of our programs just to see if it actually works.

Now, we're at a stage where we've incorporated all our programs on the Disco platform."

Why Did YSpace Choose Disco?
It was important to YSpace to find something that was centralized and worked as a platform that created an intuitive user experience for their members.

Here are some of our features that helped them overcome operational challenges:

  • Course management: Being able to build different experiences and have different cohorts go through them.

  • Content uploads and duplication: The core reason why we’re on Disco. It’s seamless enough that we don't have to think about it. It's a really quick and easy process, being able to upload content and manage the content.

  • Product updates: I think what's also been exciting is Disco has been building with us as we've been building. Working with a good team that also gets and prioritizes our needs has been an awesome experience with Disco.

"We've definitely saved a good one to two weeks worth of putting things together for a single accelerator program by using Disco. If you think about the number of different programs and how often they're happening, that’s a lot of time."

Read the full article to learn more about YSpace and how they approach learning experience design, marketing, referral programs and where they believe the future of learning is headed.

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